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The combustion diagram does look nicer, since it doesn't contain complex overlaps of bonds. However, it's still physically inaccurate. The carbon dioxide molecu
by shrx 3y ago
The combustion diagram does look nicer, since it doesn't contain complex overlaps of bonds. However, it's still physically inaccurate. The carbon dioxide molecule should be linear, for example. Molecules have atoms arranged following very specific rules arising from quantum mechanics and the theory of molecular orbitals, you can't solve this with a graph optimization algorithm.
- sestep 3y agoCould you clarify what you mean when you say "it's still physically inaccurate" and "The carbon dioxide molecule should be linear"? In my post I was specifically contrasting the diagram in the Penrose registry (in which the carbon dioxide molecule is incorrect as you point out) with another version of that diagram which I generated using Python (in which the carbon dioxide molecule is correct). Did you only look at the one and not the other, perhaps?