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"Bucky Madness," by Jeffrey Stewart Ely (Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR)
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Digital print on archival paper, 20" x 20", 2010
This is my response to a request to make a ball and stick model of the buckyball carbon molecule. After deciding that a strict interpretation of the molecule lacked artistic flair, I proceeded to use it
as a theme. Here, the overall structure is a 60-node truncated icosahedron (buckyball), but each
node is itself a buckyball. The center sphere reflects this model in its surface and also recursively
reflects the whole against a mirror that is behind the observer.
I was recently surprised to read in David Richeson's book, Euler's Gem, that Legendre proved
Euler's Formula, V - E + F = 2, by projecting a polyhedron onto a sphere and then summing the
areas of the various spherical polygons. I think this fact resonates rather well with this design. --- Jeffrey Stewart Ely
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