THE BEADED MOLECULES
串珠分子模型的美妙世界

數學之美：2013年Bridges會議展出的數學藝術品 C60⊗C60 Bridges會議是一個獨特的年度盛會，它匯集了數學、藝術、音樂、建築、教育和文化領域的人們。會議的藝術展覽部分尤其引人注目，展示了數學概念...

數學之美：2013年Bridges會議展出的超十二面體與V形連接⊗C80 Bridges會議是一個連接數學、藝術、音樂、建築等領域的國際會議。其數學藝術展覽部分是獨一無二的平台，展示了數學概念如何激發藝術創作。在 **2013年...

Since the last month of 2011, I started to work on the so-called Sierpinski buckyballs or superbuckyballs, which belong to a particular fami...

After months of planning, we finally created the zometool model of superfullerene, a giant buckyball consisting of 60 smaller buckyballs. ...

As was asked by Bih-Yaw, I think in principle one can always go on the process of using fullerenes to construct superfullerene, and then tre...

Lastly, we will address some other examples of this method of constructing graphitic structures from C60s. We will start with planar tori. A...

In this post I will present some other polyhedra built with the same principle. As you might know that the C20 and the C60 discussed in the ...

We will move on to our main and original goal of devising this technique: constructing superfullerenes. Readers familiar with zometool would...

Recently I've been playing with all kinds of these superbuckyballs, based on the methodology of replacing balls and struts of zometool b...

I made a new superbuckyball for the Mathart exhibition of Joint Mathematical Meeting JMM held in San Diego this few days. The original one m...

Chern and I submitted two artworks to the Joint Mathematical Beading, which were accepted today: 1. Super Buckyball of Genus 31 2. Bea...

I have written an article about super buckyball, Super buckyball as a molecular sculpture - its structure and the construction method (分子雕塑─...

This one is a dodecahedron made up of twenty tetrahedral C 84 . These C 84 s are punctured with three holes and then fused together. More th...

Mr. Hwang took this picture of my group the next day after I had the workshop last month.

Mr. Hwang took many photos for my workshop last Tuesday. As usual, I gave a 30-min short talk before we started to make beaded C 20 and C...

As I said in the previous post, one can puncture holes on a C 84 and use the resulting structures as basic units for building larger graphi...

I posted a few bead models of C 84 before, but I had never given the detailed beading procedure for this molecule. C 84 is the smallest ac...

I made another super carbon tetrahedron (超級碳正四面體) consisting of four fused C60s with 8mm beads. Unlike the previous one, the two neighbored ...