What do viruses have in common with buildings? Virus, The Beauty of the Beast Chapter 2

Interactive version: viruspatterns.com
This is a recording of Virus, The Beauty of the Beast, an interactive documentary about viruses. Virus have shells that are made of beautiful patterns - the patterns on Zika virus actually have connections to medieval Islamic art, and this documentary explores other connections between viruses and human designs. Throughout it, the audience can interact with actual scientific models of viruses.
Created by
Hamish Todd
Filmmaker
Diego Almazán de Pablo
Illustrations
Sheree Walker
Sound design
Marcin Knyziak
Monet Gardier
Scientific consultation
Toni Luque
Stefan Sechelmann
Other sound effects
Freesound.org
Toiletrolltube
Chrillz3r
Acclivity
Kwahmah
Reitanna
Technical sources
WebGL, from the Khronos group
Three.js, from MrDoob
The CZcams API, from Google
The Protein Data Bank
“How To Fold It” by Joseph O'Rourke
Other scientific consultants
Eric Stansifer
Tom Keefe
WestLangley
Chigozie Nri
Abhir Bhalerao
Virus assembly toy created by Arthur Olson
Virus structures
HIV
Yen-Li Li, Viswanathan Chandrasekaran, Stephen D Carter, Cora L Woodward, Devin E Christensen, Kelly A Dryden, Owen Pornillos, Mark Yeager, Barbie K Ganser-Pornillos, Grant J Jensen, Wesley I Sundquist
HIV 2
Benjamin J1, Ganser-Pornillos BK, Tivol WF, Sundquist WI, Jensen GJ.
HIV 3
The Histology Guide - University of Leeds
Zika
Sirohi, D., Chen, Z., Sun, L., Klose, T., Pierson, T.C., Rossmann, M.G., Kuhn, R.J.
Bluetongue
Zhang, X., Boyce, M., Bhattacharya, B., Zhang, X., Schein, S., Roy, P., Zhou, Z.H.
Phi29
Zhao W, Saha M, Ke A, Morais MC, Jardine PJ, Grimes S
T4
Sun S, Kondabagil K, Draper B, Alam TI, Bowman VD, Zhang Z, Hegde S, Fokine A, Rossmann MG, Rao VB
Rotavirus
Chen, J.Z., Settembre, E.C., Aoki, S.T., Zhang, X., Bellamy, A.R., Dormitzer, P.R., Harrison, S.C., Grigorieff, N.
Polio
Filman, D.J., Syed, R., Chow, M., Macadam, A.J., Minor, P.D., Hogle, J.M.
Mimivirus
Xiao C, Kuznetsov YG, Sun S, Hafenstein SL, Kostyuchenko VA, Chipman PR, Suzan-Monti M, Raoult D, McPherson A, Rossmann MG
Alfalfa Mosaic virus
Dr M. Verhoyen & Mr S. Henstra
Phage Pp2
Lin YR1, Lin CS.
Nanocompartment
Kerfeld, C.A., Sawaya, M.R., Tanaka, S., Nguyen, C.V., Phillips, M., Beeby, M. & Yeates
Polyomavirus
I. Rayment, T. S. Baker, and D. L. D. Caspar
Data hosting and “200 Viruses” image
The Protein Data Bank H.M. Berman, J. Westbrook, Z. Feng, G. Gilliland, T.N. Bhat, H. Weissig, I.N. Shindyalov, P.E. Bourne (2000) Nucleic Acids Research, 28: 235-242. doi:10.1093/nar/28.1.235
Image sources
African hairstyle
Sagay, Esi, African Hairstyles, Heinemann Educational Books Inc. USA, 1983.
Opening present
Charmaine Eng
Viruses attached to cells
Willie Wilson, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
Viruses leaving cell
Fred Murphy, USCDCP
Cell containing viruses
What-when-how.com
Woven basket
Jackie Abrams www.jackieabrams.com
Darb-I Imam shrine entrance
Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom collection, MIT Libraries, Aga Khan Visual Archive
Darb-I Imam mural above entrance
K. Dudley and M. Elliff
Other photographs of Islamic patterns
David Wade patterninislamicart.com/
Illustration of Men Working is a derivative of “Geodesic Dome for Australasian Exposition” by Maurice K. Smith, Rights © Masschusetts Institute of Technology, Rights Statement: CC BY-NC 3.0, the original image can be found here hdl.handle.net/1721.3/68841
The Shrine Illustration is a derivative of “Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine 08” by Anaareh Saaveh used under CC BY 2.0, The original image can be found here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
The Buckminster Fuller Illustration is a derivative of “R. Buckminster Fuller with his domed city design” by Steve Yelvington used under CC BY-SA 4.0, The original image can be found here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

[@MithileshHinge]

Hi, could you *_please_* make a video or provide links on a similar demo of how the Measles virus assembles? You didn't explain it in the explorable. I'm finding it hard to imagine how a complex virus like that could self-assemble through random collisions. And the curiosity is killing me. 🙏🏽

[@michellesolomon5089]

Football or "soccer ball" if you're American LMAO