5000 Bead Chains

This chain took about 8.5 real-time hours to finish running. These were all run on a Power Macintosh running LinuxPPC by the way.

A wireframe picture of the initial random chain:

The same chain from a different angle and in ball & stick mode:

And a special treat, the same chain drawn in spacefill mode!:

The final chain:

The final chain in stick mode: