(and pricey) software program called Spartan. Suddenly the Lewis dot problems we'd been doing seemed nifty too, since they now determined not only how elements combined into various compounds, but helped us program the appropriate 3-dimensional models. Once inputted, we could spin them around, and represent them in various ways. Very enjoyable! And the time just flew by - but not before my classmate S and I started generating random clusters of elements to see how each would bend, torque, and - when viewed not as "ball and spoke" but as "space-filling" - bulge like a weird in vitro lovechild of Botero and Murakami.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Dr. Frankenstein I presume
In Chemistry of Life today, we got to design molecules using a nifty 
(and pricey) software program called Spartan. Suddenly the Lewis dot problems we'd been doing seemed nifty too, since they now determined not only how elements combined into various compounds, but helped us program the appropriate 3-dimensional models. Once inputted, we could spin them around, and represent them in various ways. Very enjoyable! And the time just flew by - but not before my classmate S and I started generating random clusters of elements to see how each would bend, torque, and - when viewed not as "ball and spoke" but as "space-filling" - bulge like a weird in vitro lovechild of Botero and Murakami.
(and pricey) software program called Spartan. Suddenly the Lewis dot problems we'd been doing seemed nifty too, since they now determined not only how elements combined into various compounds, but helped us program the appropriate 3-dimensional models. Once inputted, we could spin them around, and represent them in various ways. Very enjoyable! And the time just flew by - but not before my classmate S and I started generating random clusters of elements to see how each would bend, torque, and - when viewed not as "ball and spoke" but as "space-filling" - bulge like a weird in vitro lovechild of Botero and Murakami.
