Branched 100 Bead Chains

I had intended to put up 10,000 and 30,000 bead chains today, but Rasmol won't load them properly. In any case, the 10,000 bead chain took a cool 35 hours to run. I didn't let the 30,000 bead chain finish, but it probably would have taken about a week.

Instead I'm putting up branched chains. I just finished modifying the pivot program to handle branched chains today, so these are new and cool! The main chain backbone is 100 beads, but I think there are 150 beads all together. I think it took about 40 seconds to do 20,000 pivots on my slow computer at home.

A stick picture of the initial random chain:


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


The final chain:


The final chain from another angle: