Designing Skeletal Polyhedral Sculptures Inspired by Octet-Truss Systems and Structural Inorganic Chemistry with Bugle Beads

Year: 2017 Authors: Chia-Chin Tsoo; Bih-Yaw Jin

Core claim

Tubular bugle beads enable aesthetically pleasing skeletal polyhedra with coordination numbers up to twelve, expanding bead-based modeling beyond spherical-bead limits.

Topics

skeletal polyhedra, octet-truss lattices, structural inorganic chemistry, polyoxometallates

Domains

polyhedral geometry, graph connectivity, rigidity, bead sculpture, craft design, mathematical art

Methods

standard angle weave, right-angle weave, deltahedral assembly, structural modeling

Media

bugle beads, fishing line

Source status

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