I made a buckyball. I created it using a 6-cornered-polygon and a
5-cornered-polygon, and then started to rotate and translate them around.
The result is good enough for me, but i wonder if there is an easier way to
create a buckyball.

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You might try looking at:

http://www.ccl.net/cca/data/fullerenes/index.shtml

an archive of fullerene coordinates.  The data are in Chem3D format, but 
it is trivial to get only the XYZ coordinates.  You might even use the 
connectivity info within the file to help you define vertices.

Hope this helps.
JWV wrote:
> I made a buckyball. I created it using a 6-cornered-polygon and a
> 5-cornered-polygon, and then started to rotate and translate them around.
> The result is good enough for me, but i wonder if there is an easier way to
> create a buckyball.
> 
> 
>

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When I read this my eyes suffer, although for the neolanguage described by
g. orwell in 1984 is correct, a 6-cornered-polygon is a hexagon, and a
5-cornered-polygon, a pentagon

Bruno Gimeno
The mathematics are the language of the nature


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> I made a buckyball. I created it using a 6-cornered-polygon and a
> 5-cornered-polygon, and then started to rotate and translate them around.
> The result is good enough for me, but i wonder if there is an easier way
to
> create a buckyball.
>
>
>

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JWV wrote:
> 
> I made a buckyball. I created it using a 6-cornered-polygon and a
> 5-cornered-polygon, and then started to rotate and translate them around.
> The result is good enough for me, but i wonder if there is an easier way to
> create a buckyball.

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Ken Tyler

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