PORCELAINia/Style/Carbon 60


		CARBON60 STYLE

All work in the near future will be done in the newly developed Carbon 60 Style based on the surface configuration of the soccer ball with its 20 hexagon and 12 pentagon faces. Deconstructing the Hexapent The recently discovered allotrope of carbon, the 60-atom molecule named buckminsterfullerene, has the soccer ball configuration. Each atom of carbon is located at one of the 60 vertices. These vertices are formed at the junction of two hexagons and a pentagon. Each of the 90 edges represent the 90 covalent sigma bonds between the atoms of carbon. Each atom is bonded to three others.

The fabrication of a vessel in this style requires a solid sphere of white porcelain, 20 hexagon buttons, 12 pentagon buttons, and 60 carbon cones. (See Fabrication Prototype.) The circumference of the white sphere required is determined by multiplying the diameter of the hexagon button by 8.6. For example, a 2.0 cm hexagon button will require a white sphere of circumference 17.2 cm (8.6x2) so that all 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons will fit the surface and each other without overlapping. The height of the buttons is about 1.5 cm, a height that will make the design visible on the inner surface once the interior of the sphere is carved out. Examples of the Carbon 60 Style are shown in the Quantum Series and Classical Series.