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A mixed up Buckyball (200k) |
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The name is really Buckminster-Fullerene after the guys who invented it.
A sphere and a couple of linking bars are rotated around a point to form a pentagon. Two pentagons are joined together and the assembly is duplicated six times and the pieces are translated and rotated into position.
Notice that it is easy to replace the sphere definition of the Atom by any other shape. Replace it with a face and you get 60 faces in space.
Replace it with a Buckyball and you get a mess
(200k).