C061121 - The flower sphere (Peter Jepsen)
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:14 pm
This is a repost of one of Peter's excellent models from the old Geomag forums.
It was originally posted on 21st November 2006
If you happen to own 1020 Geomag bars, 120 diamond and 60 square panels, here's how to build the big sphere with panels recently added to the Geomag Gallery.
It's basically a dodecahedron (a ball with 12 sides) made of modules that look a bit like flowers.
Below is one module. You will need 80 bars, 10 diamond and 5 square panels to build it. 12 modules are necessary for the large sphere.
If you don't have 1020 Geomag bars, at least try to build one module just for the fun of it. It will spin like a top on a flat surface.
Here is how you assemble the modules, 3 of them join together at the pointy ends. 3 bars for each connection (marked in red) provide extra stability.
(My modules use five bars more and five diamond panels less than the ones used for the red sphere, but the shape is the same)
Have fun,
PJ
Nice. This twelve-module approach seems very productive.
Rafael Millan
It was originally posted on 21st November 2006
If you happen to own 1020 Geomag bars, 120 diamond and 60 square panels, here's how to build the big sphere with panels recently added to the Geomag Gallery.
It's basically a dodecahedron (a ball with 12 sides) made of modules that look a bit like flowers.
Below is one module. You will need 80 bars, 10 diamond and 5 square panels to build it. 12 modules are necessary for the large sphere.
If you don't have 1020 Geomag bars, at least try to build one module just for the fun of it. It will spin like a top on a flat surface.
Here is how you assemble the modules, 3 of them join together at the pointy ends. 3 bars for each connection (marked in red) provide extra stability.
(My modules use five bars more and five diamond panels less than the ones used for the red sphere, but the shape is the same)
Have fun,
PJ
Nice. This twelve-module approach seems very productive.
Rafael Millan