The image below represents the interior of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate, showing an array of 12 spontaneously appearing vortices.
Courtesy of David L. Feder and Peter Ketcham, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

The 12 solitons within a Pulsoid, as described by Brunardot Harmonic ellipses,  are analogous to said "vortices."
 

 

 

Image from University of Oxford Philosophy of Physics website:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ppox/

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