Fabrication Stage of a Work in the Carbon 60 Style of the Octahedral Porcelain Process (www.porcelainia.com/pro.html) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Twenty buttons (left) for hexagons and 12 (right) for pentagons cut from cylinder palettes (www.porcelainia.com/procyl.html) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Twenty cylinders (left) with diameter of 2 cm and 12 (right) with diameter of 1.6 cm. Height of cylinders is 1.5 cm. Excess material used to construct the 60 cones used to represent carbon in the buckminsterfullerene. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Thirty-two cones attached around a solid white porcelain sphere with a circumference of 17.8 cm | Sixty carbon cones with diameter of 1.3 cm and height of 2.5 cm to be embedded into the space at the junction of three cylinders | ||||||||||||||||||||
Work in process (Equilibridization Stage) | |||||||||||||||||||||