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We received sad news yesterday.Friends,Marc Pelletier, Zometool founder and the man who understood Steve Baer’s 31-zone system better than anyone in this part of the galaxy, died last night. Our appr…

Chris Hill, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Bonaventure University has been overseeing a project over the past several months; groups of middle school students from the Allegany-Limestone, H…

The Buckyball was first observed on September 2nd, 1984.The properties of the molecule were surprising and its structure a mystery. Close to midnight on September 9th, Smalley hit on the geometric sha…

We were honored to be included in Forbes' list of Top Ten Father's day gifts y Jenn Choi.The Design 5 kit is a toy that grown-ups may enjoy more than the kids. The colors are just in black and white…

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Leif Kobbelt, computer science / computer graphics, of RWTH AachenThe Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important research prize in Germany. The L…

A team from RWTH Aachen University in Germany has developed an app to generate Zometool meshes from 3D models."Our research in this project focuses on discrete optimization methods in order to use thi…

The good folk at Children's Technology Review posted this short video of a bubble demonstration at our booth in the 2014 NY Toy fair:http://youtu.be/LDoL2LR_MuA…

Explore the value of “Pi” for various Zometool-constructible solidsInspired!"So when I recently re-watched James Tanton’s brilliant video “What is Pi for a Square?“, the idea hit me: for Pi Day, stud…

The new shapes belong to  a well-known category of shapes called fullerenes. However, unlike most previously known fullerenes, the new shapes’ hundreds of faces are flat rather than warped,…