Detail of HK97 Capsid

Material used: Printed Vinyl.

DEDICATION: A tribute to Emeritus Professor Paul Luzio, of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge University, England. 

DEDICATION: A tribute to Professor and Director, Julian Rayner, installed at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge University, England.

The deconstruction of the skew geometry of the proteins of the capsid head of the virus HK97 captured my life for a few years. I discovered first-hand working on an origami format of the virus head that the tolerance for error in this structure is about 1%. The reason is that errors multiply and when the beginning must bond the ending severe mismatches are easy to happen. The virus has no problem with this challenge. Is it just a message in a bottle to silly humans who fail to understand that this Swarm mind is the oldest and most sophisticated life form?