Abstract
What do the surface structure of viruses, the morphology of sea radiolaria, the pattern on a golf ball, the weaving of baskets, the geodesic dome structure of Buckminster Fuller, the sewing design on a soccer ball and the C60 fullerene molecule all have in common? The feature common to all these and many other phenomena is a family of structures displaying a characteristic symmetry: truncated icosahedra. Truncated icosahedral structures belong to the sizeable set of polyhedra invariant under spatial rotations. It is no accident that a similar structure developed. Their formation involved a common principle of structure construction, that of so-called synergy.KeywordsRegular PolygonRegular HexagonGolf BallSoccer BallIcosahedral StructureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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