I bought these magnetic balls off eBay and I've made loads of cool stuff with them.
Trouble is, after I've made one cool thing I have to destroy it before I can make another cool thing. So this blog will also serve as a photographic record of my achievements.
Let's get started then. These are the balls in an unordered state:
And here they are as a Möbius Strip:
A Möbius Strip has the curious geometric property of being a 2 dimensional plane with only one side.
More shapes to follow. Maybe when I've got a better camera. The 2 mega pixels on my blackberry bold don't do justice to an icosahedron or it's Platonic dual polyhedron the dodecahedron.
Any shapes you'd like to see? Let me know in the comments.
You might also like these other posts about magnets.
Tags: magnet ball geometry, Magnets, maths, Science
