Saturday, December 8, 2007

Real Schwarzite D-Surface Graphenoid

Later last night I finished the coding of the "real" Schwarzite D-Surface Graphenoid generation, which is done by finding the dual lattice of the following infinitely extending deltahedron:



Which is copied from Ken Brakke's site, who is the author of Surface Evolver. And his TPMS gallery always gives me a great deal of help when doing the coding of negative-curved graphenoid.

The dual of this deltahedron is then the Schwarzite D-surface graphenoid with minimal number of atoms per unit cell. (There are 8 unit cells in the figure!)



A view from high symmetric point:



Here I also present some figs of the second smaller one:






One with four unit cells:

1 comment:

Jacob Martin said...

Do you have the code available? I am very interested to see how you mapped the graphitic structure to the surface.