On Growth, Form and Yin-Yang

Year: 2010 Authors: Michael Longuet-Higgins

Core claim

A two-phase random relaxation and expansion process can reproduce observed virus-sheath packings, especially when 72 units first form 12 five-fold “flowers.”

Topics

virus assembly, sphere packing, icosahedral symmetry, randomized geometry, snub polyhedra

Domains

geometry, polyhedra, sphere packing, symmetry, random processes, generative form, sculptural placement, bounded-space arrangement

Methods

yin-yang iteration, random perturbation, spherical packing simulation, comparative geometry

Media

circles on a sphere, capsomere spheres, virus micrographs

Source status

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