The regular tetrahedron, not a space-filler, may seem a disappointing shape when taken alone. However, given a whole mess of them and face-bonding an operation, we get those spirals, or tetrahelices (a word my spellchecker dictionary does not have).
The spinning vortex at the core, might be a good title for Bonnie's presentation, which helped us bring the patterns in question into focus.
The discovery that an icosahedron does not actually consist of twenty regular tetrahedrons, with a common tip, comes as a shock to some. That nature would offer such nuance... and that's but the tip of the iceberg.
The Jitterbug Transformation is the opening lotus flower, whereby the tetrahedrons regain their regularity at the fleeting moment of cuboctahedral satori-hood.
As you may be able to tell, I'm coming down from the high of being in on a virtual meetup featuring vZome, Scott Vorthmann's tool for pretending one has Zome for real.
David Koski joined us, as well as an official rep from the BFI.
First Bonnie DeVarco's trans-disciplinary tetrahelix talk (with lots of focus on virus morphology), then Paul Hildebrand's vZome workshop.
