NDL 17: Adenoviruses, AdV
Go Viral for Optimized Modular Design
Go Viral for Optimized Modular Design
Form - Forma
Optimize! Enclose a maximum volume with a minimum amount of material.
Adenoviruses use ingenious hexagonal and pentagonal clusters as modular building components that assemble into a three-dimensional icosahedral-shaped shell structure that optimally encloses maximum volume using minimum material.
Longer suggestion (based on the Awe, inspire, act texts):
Adenoviruses use ingenious hexagonal and pentagonal clusters as modular building components that assemble into a three-dimensional icosahedral-shaped shell structure that optimally encloses maximum volume using minimum material. The protein shell (capsid) of the adenovirus has an icosahedron shape, a solid with 20 plane faces. This efficient shape encloses maximum volume using less protein material. This complex three-dimensional geometry arrangement is an inspiration to create modular building components and surfaces.