Naturally, an instructional video by the creator of the unit is excellent! If the smaller buckyball shown is one with the "soccer ball" (truncated icosahedron) pattern, it should have 90 units as 1 PHiZZ unit per edge, that polyhedron having 90 edges.
Good! (You have to remember that there are Buckyballs other than the ones that need 30, 90, or 270 units. Like, there's one that can be made from 120 units.)
hi, I want to make the 90 unit buckyball, but is it possible to arrange 3 colors over it so that no 2 adjacent units are the same color? Also, is it still possible if the pentagons have 2 of 2 colors and 1 of the other color as well as the hexagons having 2 of each color?
@Ravanaboy I will someday! But explaining how Bucky tori work is harder than Buckyballs, so it will take a bit of work to put such a tutorial together. It is on my list of things to do, though!
I am obsessed with your work and math skills! I am a high school student, and I want try making a few smaller buckyballs and work my way up to making the 1080 unit buckyball! I was wondering, what type of paper is best when making PHiZZ units? I want to make sure it all stays sturdy. Thanks!
I prefer "memo cube" paper (which you can get in these nice plastic cube holders at Staples (in the USA)), which is heavier weight than standard origami paper and is good for making Buckyballs up to about 600 units. Doing anything bigger than that needs either stronger weight paper (harder to fold, tho) or smaller paper (to increase the weight-to-paper size ratio, thus giving more stability). Good luck!
I probably still have it somewhere, but it was made several years ago and might not be compatible with the current Mathematica. But if you know Mathematica then this kind of animation is not hard to do, so I suggest that you try to make it yourself.
