Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
This large unit cell crystal model is in the form of a rhombic dodecahedron with 14 icosahedrons at each vertex, and a 15th central core icosahedron. A rhombic dodecahedron has 12 identical diamond shaped faces which you can see as a frame formed around the outside of this molecule. The 15 icosahedrons are each made of 3 offset layers for strength, using a design by dskiles222. These are interconnected with a total of 32 semisolid struts, with 8 struts connected to the central icosahedron and 24 around the large structure. To make the connections work properly, icosahedrons at each end of every strut are built with opposite polarity.
This is the simplest starting point for a rhombic crystal lattice pattern that can be extended ad infinitum. A computer graphic of a larger example of the same pattern, except made of all icosahedrons (in place of the struts I used), can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=xwfYYSMRi50
Music track is Prelude No. 2 by Chris Zabriskie, from the YouTube free audio library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
Prelude No. 2 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/preludes
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
This large unit cell crystal model is in the form of a rhombic dodecahedron with 14 icosahedrons at each vertex, and a 15th central core icosahedron. A rhombic dodecahedron has 12 identical diamond shaped faces which you can see as a frame formed around the outside of this molecule. The 15 icosahedrons are each made of 3 offset layers for strength, using a design by dskiles222. These are interconnected with a total of 32 semisolid struts, with 8 struts connected to the central icosahedron and 24 around the large structure. To make the connections work properly, icosahedrons at each end of every strut are built with opposite polarity.
This is the simplest starting point for a rhombic crystal lattice pattern that can be extended ad infinitum. A computer graphic of a larger example of the same pattern, except made of all icosahedrons (in place of the struts I used), can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=xwfYYSMRi50
Music track is Prelude No. 2 by Chris Zabriskie, from the YouTube free audio library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
Prelude No. 2 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/preludes
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
