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This shape made from 5mm neodymium magnetic balls consists of two nested dodecahedrons of tubes between I180 (Icosidodecahedron) double layered mini spheres made from 180 balls each.
There are 40 of these I180 spheres in the whole shape, with some balls removed from each to enable hexagon ring connections, and 1 very strong core designed by dskiles of reverse polarity of 3 layers: 60 + 60 + 120 = 240 balls.
This quite large shape uses a polarity trick of 2 different types of connections at each end of every tube to make both polarities connect strongly throughout the structure.
To achieve the dodecahedral geometry of this shape every connection on the I180 mini spheres is between triangular faces of 3 magnetic balls on each sphere. This requires removing these balls from the surface of each mini sphere so the hexagon tubes attach correctly.
There are 20 inner spokes of 6-ring hexagon tubes of length 7 balls to the central core for the inner dodecahedron of the two.
30 outer edge hexagon ring tubes for the inner dodecahedron of length 4 balls.
20 hexagon ring spokes from the inner dodecahedron to the 2nd dodecahedron of length 4 balls.
30 outer edge hexagon ring tubes of the 2nd dodecahedron of length 12 balls.
Using I180 double layer units = 40 × 180 = 7200 - 20 × 5 × 3 - 20 × 4 × 3 - 40 × 3 - 30 × 2 × 3 = 6360 magnets for the 40 surrounding spheres.
20 × 6 × 7 + 50 × 6 × 4 + 30 × 6 × 12 = 4200 balls for the connecting hexagon tubes, a grand total of 4200 + 6360 + 240 (for the core) = 10800 magnetic balls.
Music track is Prelude No.3 by Chris Zabriskie, from the YouTube free music library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
Prelude No. 3 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: chriszabriskie.com/preludes
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
This shape made from 5mm neodymium magnetic balls consists of two nested dodecahedrons of tubes between I180 (Icosidodecahedron) double layered mini spheres made from 180 balls each.
There are 40 of these I180 spheres in the whole shape, with some balls removed from each to enable hexagon ring connections, and 1 very strong core designed by dskiles of reverse polarity of 3 layers: 60 + 60 + 120 = 240 balls.
This quite large shape uses a polarity trick of 2 different types of connections at each end of every tube to make both polarities connect strongly throughout the structure.
To achieve the dodecahedral geometry of this shape every connection on the I180 mini spheres is between triangular faces of 3 magnetic balls on each sphere. This requires removing these balls from the surface of each mini sphere so the hexagon tubes attach correctly.
There are 20 inner spokes of 6-ring hexagon tubes of length 7 balls to the central core for the inner dodecahedron of the two.
30 outer edge hexagon ring tubes for the inner dodecahedron of length 4 balls.
20 hexagon ring spokes from the inner dodecahedron to the 2nd dodecahedron of length 4 balls.
30 outer edge hexagon ring tubes of the 2nd dodecahedron of length 12 balls.
Using I180 double layer units = 40 × 180 = 7200 - 20 × 5 × 3 - 20 × 4 × 3 - 40 × 3 - 30 × 2 × 3 = 6360 magnets for the 40 surrounding spheres.
20 × 6 × 7 + 50 × 6 × 4 + 30 × 6 × 12 = 4200 balls for the connecting hexagon tubes, a grand total of 4200 + 6360 + 240 (for the core) = 10800 magnetic balls.
Music track is Prelude No.3 by Chris Zabriskie, from the YouTube free music library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
Prelude No. 3 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: chriszabriskie.com/preludes
Artist: chriszabriskie.com
