Arriving late to the existence of the periodic table, (a table arrangement of the elements by their atomic numbers, so that elements with similar properties are in the same column) Gaberlunzie promptly fell for its
amazingly odd, but definitely useful layout and has kept a weather eye on its artistic developments.

Of course coming from Scotland where video games are a serious business, one of the approaches he really admired was the Periodic Table of Videogame characters (rationale being room first to characters who are primarily and originally video game characters, but not always!).
Perhaps Abertay should hunt for some funding to put up just such an arrangement of the Dundee Dare to be Digital games winners?

Videogame periodic table of course has more than mets its serious match counterpart in the EPSRC financed Periodic Table of Videos, a project  undertaken by Professor Martyn Poliakoff (right) of Nottingham University, which has attracted more than 8m YouTube hits. Now the action is moving any day now to a series on Molecules, that is two or more atoms and types  differentiated by chemical formula.

And if you happen to enjoy periodic table dipping, Gaberlunzie seriously recommends the database of periodic tables, where he found the modern Russian format, a cheerful US style, and the blissful Mayan Periodic Table of Elements, (see below) named for its similarity to the ancient Mesoamerican calendar, is based on electron shells. 

The shells are shown as concentric circles.  Each row in the tabular form is shown as a ring.  This arrangement shows some aspects of the elements better than the traditional table.