ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Beta skeleton

Ok kiddo, let's learn about beta skeleton! Imagine you have a bunch of sticks, and you want to connect them together to make a shape. The beta skeleton is like a special way to connect the sticks that makes a really cool pattern.

First, you start by connecting each stick to its closest neighbors. But that's not all! You also want to connect sticks that are a little bit farther away if they make a triangle shape with the first sticks you connected.

This makes a bunch of triangles and lines all over the place. Some sticks have lots of lines and triangles connected to them, while others only have a few. And that's OK!

This special way of connecting sticks is really useful for things like computer graphics and studying the structure of molecules. It helps people understand how different things are connected and how they relate to each other. Cool, huh?