Several Solid Forms | Neodymium Magnetic Balls @ledwatchman

Uploaded November 2010 | Updated September 2026, 54 minutes ago

3 solid (as compact as possible) geometric forms built from neodymium magnetic balls.
The small icosahedron (20 triangular faces solid) is made from neodymium magnets coated in real 24K gold.
The fat starfish or limpet mine shape uses nearly 1000 spheres packed tightly together. I came up with this shape actually trying to build a complete spherical geometric solid called a Rhombicosidodecahedron, which I have since managed to build successfully and it can be seen here:
youtube.com/watch?v=KFrLBb-GQ-A
Music track is Prelude No. 16 by Chris Zabriskie, from the YouTube free music library.

#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube

Prelude No. 16 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/preludes
Artist: chriszabriskie.com

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