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Icosahedral Logo (Work in Progress)

Posted on January 9, 2011 by engineerzero

Kind of overwhelms the images in Warehouse. Have to work on that. But at least I toned it down from this:

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Uploading Adenine

Posted on January 9, 2011 by engineerzero

That’s what I uploaded. This time I think it will stay. You can visit it in the 3D warehouse by clicking here. Here is my stupid logo: Originally, I used the Martian tripod as my logo, then I had second … Continue reading →

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icosahedral adenine in sketchup

Posted on January 8, 2011 by engineerzero

A problem with putting the letters on the sides of the icosahedra (yes, that is plural for ‘icosahedron’ according to the WordPress spell checker — which by the way treats ‘WordPress’ as a typo). Where was I? Oh, yes, a … Continue reading →

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Icosahedral chlorine atom

Posted on January 8, 2011 by engineerzero

As I started to add more atoms to the Sketchup molecule maker kit, I realized that the chemistry model color convention breaks down past the basic four atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. Green, for example, is used for … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker Expansion Set

Posted on January 7, 2011 by engineerzero

Here is a screen capture of the latest version of Molecule Maker. Notice the scene tabs, which facilitate zooming in and out. I had to de-select scene transitions to make it work smoother (which, I admit, seems counterintuitive). The lines … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Good Adenine and the Kit

Posted on January 6, 2011 by engineerzero

Well, I was right about being wrong. Here is adenine with the correct angles for the hydrogen bonds coming off the pentagonal ring: And here is the molecule maker kit, admittedly not looking like much for something that has kept … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Uracil

Posted on January 5, 2011 by engineerzero

Uracil is really easy to make. All you have to do is get rid of the ‘antlers’ of the methyl group on thymine and replace with a ‘unicorn horn’ of hydrogen for uracil. Actually, scientists believe the evolutionary path was … Continue reading →

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Free Wireless Electricity, Non-Proof of Concept

Posted on January 4, 2011 by engineerzero

After burning incense in the Temple of Tesla, a few months ago I did a calculation on just how much electricity is naturally in the atmosphere. It would take an antenna one square kilometer in area suspended ten kilometers over … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: DNA Nucleotides

Posted on January 4, 2011 by engineerzero

From left to right: adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine. They took about ten minutes each, thymine a little longer than the others because of the ‘antler.’ I found that I could copy-and-paste a lot of the molecular structure from previous work, … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Isooctane

Posted on January 4, 2011 by engineerzero

Just for practice, I thought I’d try to make a simple molecule. So I went through my copy of Isaac Asimov’s The Genetic Code, and on page 40 was a diagram for isooctane that looked like this: Hmm, I thought. … Continue reading →

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