Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? (asimov.press)

We used to joke in my biophysics grad program that basically everything was determined by its surface area to volume ratio.

The header illustration brought to my mind, for some reason, the tomato bushy stunt virus depiction by the late Irving Geis: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/geis-archive/gallery/geis-05...