Abstract
A recent achievement in nanotechnology has been self-assembly of wireframe models from scaffold strand DNA—
long single strands of DNA encoded with information that will become folding and gluing instructions when the
strand hybridizes with shorter strands called staple DNA. In the assembled complex, the scaffold strand traces a
non-crossing Eulerian circuit (an A-trail) over the surface of the model (that surface being limited to a topological
sphere.) I present a larger scale—human-mediated—version of this technique for making wireframe sculptures and
armatures. Using triple strands (as opposed to the double strands of DNA) is advantageous with this technique. The
information that needs to be imprinted on the scaffold strand amounts to merely some pre-bends and dot markings.
Having weaving instructions marked on one of the elements of the weaving may in some cases be faster and less
confusing for the weaver than transcribing from symbols on paper.
