Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 45 minutes ago
This is a second improved version of my original Core Connected Buckyball, magnet art based on a buckyball, or C60 fullerene carbon molecule, but with additional internal structure:
youtube.com/watch?v=kjbvSvE6wZE
This model has an icosahedron shaped molecule central core of 12 atoms, interconnected with 30 atomic bond connectors. These core atoms are connected by shorter bonds to 12 more supporting atoms around them, (only these 12 are of reverse polarity), each of which are connected to rings of 5 atoms on the outside, forming 12 more halves of icosahedrons on the complete outer C60 fullerene of 60 mini spheres, with a total of another 150 bonds interconnecting them.
The complete shape is made almost entirely of rings of 5 magnets: 84 R60 (Rhombicosidodecahedron) spheres for the atoms of 60 magnets each (12 × 5) , 180 double ring connectors of 2 × 5, and 12 single ring connectors of 5, plus some reinforcement for strength of the bottom weight bearing spheres 6 × (5 + 5 + 3 + 3), for a total of 1392 rings of 5 magnets, and a total magnet count of 6996 balls.
(What I call R60 spheres are usually referred to as C60 spheres, or buckyballs, but this is technically incorrect - they are a variant and not an actual mini C60 fullerene)
This model uses a trick of localised polarity reversal. This requires reversing the direction of construction of pentagonal rings of 5 magnets on the surface of the R60 spheres at one end of every tube connection. This allows for opposite polarity interlocking connections that makes a much stronger and more stable build than my first version of a core connected buckyball.
Music track is Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie, from the YouTube free music library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: chriszabriskie.com/cylinders
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
This is a second improved version of my original Core Connected Buckyball, magnet art based on a buckyball, or C60 fullerene carbon molecule, but with additional internal structure:
youtube.com/watch?v=kjbvSvE6wZE
This model has an icosahedron shaped molecule central core of 12 atoms, interconnected with 30 atomic bond connectors. These core atoms are connected by shorter bonds to 12 more supporting atoms around them, (only these 12 are of reverse polarity), each of which are connected to rings of 5 atoms on the outside, forming 12 more halves of icosahedrons on the complete outer C60 fullerene of 60 mini spheres, with a total of another 150 bonds interconnecting them.
The complete shape is made almost entirely of rings of 5 magnets: 84 R60 (Rhombicosidodecahedron) spheres for the atoms of 60 magnets each (12 × 5) , 180 double ring connectors of 2 × 5, and 12 single ring connectors of 5, plus some reinforcement for strength of the bottom weight bearing spheres 6 × (5 + 5 + 3 + 3), for a total of 1392 rings of 5 magnets, and a total magnet count of 6996 balls.
(What I call R60 spheres are usually referred to as C60 spheres, or buckyballs, but this is technically incorrect - they are a variant and not an actual mini C60 fullerene)
This model uses a trick of localised polarity reversal. This requires reversing the direction of construction of pentagonal rings of 5 magnets on the surface of the R60 spheres at one end of every tube connection. This allows for opposite polarity interlocking connections that makes a much stronger and more stable build than my first version of a core connected buckyball.
Music track is Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie, from the YouTube free music library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: chriszabriskie.com/cylinders
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
