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Google’s Spinning Buckyball Logo

If you visit Google on Saturday, September 4th, or visit a Google property where it is already September 4th such as Google New Zealand, you will see a special Google logo. The logo is of a buckyball or fullerence, which is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, […]

Barry Schwartz on September 3, 2010 at 11:29 am

If you visit Google on Saturday, September 4th, or visit a Google property where it is already September 4th such as Google New Zealand, you will see a special Google logo. The logo is of a buckyball or fullerence, which is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube.

The neat part is that you can click on the buckyball and spin it with your mouse. Here is a picture and a video demonstrated it:

This is not the first animated Google logo. Google had animated / interactive logos for Issac Newton, Pacman and many others.

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