Giant Rhombic Hexecontahedron Star Tube & Sphere Matrix | 7865 Neodymium Magnetic Balls @ledwatchman

Uploaded September 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

The geometric term for the outline of this sphere and tube complex is a rhombic hexecontahedron, which is a 20 pointed star like polyhedron (3D solid figure) with 60 diamond shaped faces, 3 around each point.
I used 63 R60 spheres of varying polarity, and 132 identical pentagonal tubes of length 6 rings as interconnectors, plus 5 vertical support pentagonal tubes of length 5 in the base, for a total of 7865 neodymium 5mm magnetic balls. Music track is Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project.

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