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Buckyball!
26 Feb 2006
Buckyball printed using split layout feature
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Version 1.0.291 (now available) supports creation of the buckyball, also known as the truncated icosahedron, or soccer ball. This version also supports split layouts. This feature enables groups of faces to be printed separately. This makes it easy to print faces on differently colored paper. I chose to assemble this by putting everything together flat and creating a huge net layout, then putting it all together. The second picture shows what it looked like when I had put the entire net together. To create this shape, you would do the following:
The buckyball (named after R. Buckminster Fuller, the well-known engineer who popularized geodesic domes and was a prolific visionary) has many interesting properties. There's even a molecule with a similar structure, buckminster fullerene. | ![]() ![]() |
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