Here’s another interactive doodle from Google.
After fascinating us with a fully playable Pacman complete with all the sounds and lights and score during Pacman’s 30th anniversary last May 22, 2010, Google today has in its homepage a doodle that replaces one of the letter o’s with a rotating spherical orange ball.
You can actually twist and turn the ball with your mouse pointer.
That ball is a buckyball and Google is honoring its discovery 25 years ago today.
Well, what exactly is a buckyball?
A buckyball or fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of stacked graphene sheets of linked hexagonal rings; but they may also contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings.
Yeah right, whatever that means.
Visit its wikipedia entry to find out more about buckyball.
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September 7th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
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September 9th, 2010 at 1:30 am
wow,i totally missed these doodles! the idea of making the logo interactive is just amazing!
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