Corpuscle geometry

What are corpuscles?

Corpuscles are polyhedra built of flexible, almost regular triangles. They are described in detail (in German) at www.korpuskel.de.

1. On this website, you can find example movies showing animations of their elastic deformations.
2. You can also download data files for printing out corpuscle structures with a 3-d printer.

Publications

1. The corpuscle - a simple building block for polyhedra networks
   Wohlleben E. and Liebermeister W. (2008)
   13th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics.

2. Tension and deformations in elastic polyhedral rings made of corpuscle elements
   Wohlleben E. and Liebermeister W. (2010)
   14th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics.

3. Elastic deformations in polyhedral rings formed by corpuscle elements
   Wohlleben E. and Liebermeister W. (2012)
   Journal for Geometry and Graphics 16 (1), 59-67.

4. Periodic corpuscle structures and the spaces in between
   Wohlleben E. and Liebermeister W. (2012)
   15th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics

Corpuscle chains have been featured in two articles in "Spektrum der Wissenschaft", the German edition of Scientific American.

1. Große Wackelpolyeder, Spektrum der Wissenschaft (2009). [pdf]

2. Mathematica fürs Volk, Spektrum der Wissenschaft (2009). [pdf]

Contact: Wolfram Liebermeister