Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Vesicle coats

On to next chapter in Alberts et al..

Adidas clearly stole their 'Fevernova' logo

from the clathrin triskelion


And football players (or Plato?) the truncated icosahedron ball shape


from the clathrin coat


Go Nature in beating humans in making pretty things :)

2 comments:

explosivechicken said...

Neat :> Isn't it true that man is programmed to create objects in likeness to nature's dimensions and symmetry. yet more fractals :P
(What are you doing up at 4am in the morning writing blogs?!)

Leopold said...

Neat indeed - I thought this is the kind of molecules you can actually calculate the fractal dimension for..

And 4am was the only time I had - which shrank to 0, which I now expanded a bit :)