Thursday, May 15, 2014

Catalan triangulated Buckyball

I tried making the Buckyball model in which I inadvertently triangulated all pentagons and hexagons. This taught me the lesson that there is an absolute limit on the minimum size of an opening if there is going to be support in the interior. Namely, the size of the tool you are using to clean up the shape. I had to break a few edges to clean out the shape. It is depicted here next to the previous wireframe shape (a Pentakis Dodecahedron).


Future plans: I am going to try to remove the extraneous edges to make an actual recognizable truncated icosa/Bucky/soccer ball.

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