Quasi-Geodesic Hexagon Sphere And Dome | 4080/4200 Neodymium Magnetic Balls @ledwatchman

Uploaded November 2011 | Updated September 2026, 16 minutes ago

The sphere is made with 80 hexagon units and 12 pentagonal units.
Each hexagon subunit is hollow with 3 layers, 18+18+12=48 magnet balls. Each pentagonal unit is 5 + 5 + 10 = 20 balls, total 4080 magnets.
The quasi-geodesic dome is made with 85 hexagon units and 6 pentagonal units, total 4200 magnets. At that scale the pentagon elements distort the curvature into more of a pentagonal tent than a true dome, but the shape still looks interesting I think.
Music track was Oxygene Pt 1 by Jean Michel Jarre, now audioswapped for The Low Seas by The 126ers, for copyright reasons.

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