Monthly Archives: January 2014

some thoughts about packing

Posted on Monday, 2014 January 27 by Anton

My bundle of 19 fullerenes is arranged in a face-centred cubic lattice, each ball occupying one of the 24 even-numbered cells of a 4×4×3 array (and parts of the adjacent cells). The spacing of the grid planes is determined by … Continue reading →

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in which I curse my lack of omniscience

Posted on Friday, 2014 January 24 by Anton

I want to push several hundred greyscale images through a threshold filter, so that an output pixel is black or white according to whether the corresponding input pixel is less or more than 1/2 bright. (My goal is a ‘woodcut’ … Continue reading →

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small irregular fullerenes

Posted on Friday, 2014 January 24 by Anton

Shapeways has thirteen models of (the most symmetrical and famous form of) C60, but none of the thousands of smaller fullerenes. So I designed models of the 35 smallest, i.e. up to C36; this includes the smallest with no symmetries, … Continue reading →

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