Category: 1728
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85.5: Homunculus III – Judging
1st Place: “Santa” by Krazy Kat Krazy Kat secured 1st place with her super adorable Santa Claus. Perhaps this entry was more popular due to the season, but most likely it’s the perfect use of colored magnets and Kat’s Christmas Spirit. Certainly a jolly ol elf. 1st prize earns Krazy Kat $100. 2nd Place: “The…
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85: Homunculus III
The November 2020 contest is reviving a classic. Create a humanoid figure with magnets.
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77.5: Silhouette – Winners Announced
1st place: Electron Orbital by YoyoBandalore YoyoBandalore took first place with his bridged cuboctahedron. In order to achieve this photograph, “Figure was placed on a translucent cutting board with white wrapping tissue on top. The cutting board was supported by two champagne flutes with a LED light shining from below.” Precision framing and the tease…
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77: Silhouette
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes – only a million variations. Charles James The March 2020 contest is to create a build with 1728 magnets or less, and photograph it’s silhouette. Ergo, the magnets must be lit from behind, so they are shadowed in the photograph. You may construct whatever you please. Remember…
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67.5: Levitation Feature Winners Announced
After much deliberation, tallying, recounting, traveling to Pittsburgh and back, we finally have the results for the Levitation contest. This was good one, and we had lots of participants and chose 9 winners! Without further adieu, the winners are: 1st Place: Mathnetism “Double Helix Attraction” Mathnetism takes the gold with a stunning symmetrical piece. He…
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67: Levitation Feature
“See! Levitation is easy if we all just keep our heads on the ground.” -Anthony T. Hincks The May 2019 contest is to create a sculpture with a levitating feature out of a maximum of 1728 Zen Magnets. Props to DanCJ for spawning the idea for this contest. Technically, this is a partial levitation contest.…
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63.5 9-Triangle Subunit II – Winners Announced
1st place – KLAW With about 30 entries, KLAW managed to take 1st place with this photo of a Zen pyramid. Nice warm, dramatic lighting from the golden hour helped achieve “an Egyptian atmosphere.” Plus a low angle and short depth of field gives this build the illusion of being enormous. Congratulations, KLAW, first place…
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63: 9-Triangle Subunit II
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. – Pythagoras The January 2019 contest is to create a sculpture using only 9-Triangle subunits. A maximum of 192 of these subunits can be used, in other words 1728 Zen Magnets maximum. Photos due at the…
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41.5: Super Smash Contestants – Winner Announced
Difficult contest with relatively few submissions, but all were remarkable. 1st Place: Ffrangconator – $100 A colorful Link, formed to recognizable shape, with a few wonderful backgrounds. This scene was originally going to be in a stop motion animation, but was difficult to animate. Perfect match for this contest, however 🙂 The post processed background is…
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41: Super Smash Sculptures
Everything not saved will be lost. – Nintendo “Quit Screen” message The July 2014 contest is to create a 3D Sculpture of a character from Super Smash Bros Melee using a maximum of 1728 magnet spheres of any brand. It’s a pretty wide selection of characters from the Nintendo universe, and you can have a…
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40.5: Abstract Tree Sequel – Winners Announced
1st Place: Mathnetism Simply titled Tree by Magnetism, and referred to by us as Tree of Reflective Wavy Foliage. “The main subunit for this design is a dodecagon [sheet] wrapped around a core. These wrapped dodecagons form the branches and leaves of the tree and are joined by a 6-ring stack trunk.” The reflections on the inner trunk…
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40: Abstract Tree Encore
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” ― Chad Sugg The June 2014 contest (#40) is the second tree sculpting contest, our first was contest 10. Again, much lateral liberty on what you make. Of all possible sculptures that could be considered a tree, most of…
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38.5: Humanoid 2 – Winners Announced
1st Place: Poolshark “I started with an enormous, elaborate design but in the end switched to a smaller 2 set (+10 balls) man standing on his head with pretty basic design techniques.” It’s a novel and inspiring clean design. As an icon among eight others, it’s simplicity stands out strong. One of the most fun poses a…
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38: Humanoid V2
It’s true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. – Salman Rushdie The February 2014 contest is to create a humanoid sculpture, using a miminum of 432 Zen magnets, and a maximum of 1728. Over thirty contests ago we had the very first homunculus contest. This month is…
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23.5: Mandala Tower Entries Posted – Winners Announced
12 total entries from submitted in the December 2012 Mandala Tower contest. Many abstract beauties submitted. For some reason, the skyscrapers shot in front of a night sky were almost unanimously chosen over towers shot in front of a light background. A total of $207 worth of magnetic prizes were awarded in this contest. 1st Place: Mathnetism…
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23: Mandala Tower
The entire contest.zenmagnets.com site has been updated! More on this below. The November contest, is to make a tall architectural masterpiece with a maximum of 1728 Zen Magnets. The building must be at least three times higher than it is wide at the base. No additional structural objects besides magnets may be used, however building on a magnetic surface…
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17.5: Headgear Entries – Winners Announced
First Place Winner: Tend2it The winner of the April headgear contest, and of two free glimmering sets of Zen Magnets, is Tend2it. Using the montage method, four different angles of this helm are shown. The gold and black contrast really emphasizes the layering and depth of the build, and the four colorful neoballs are modestly…
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17: Hatch Magnetic Headgear
This time Limit 1728 magnets, with no brand restrictions. Photograph a sculpture of some magnetic headgear. It doesn’t need to be to scale, and doesn’t need to fit on your head, or even on your cats head. Quite a wide range of possibilities for this contest. Non-fictional sports helmets, reproductions of historic war helmets, sci-fi…
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13.5: Snowflake Entries – Winners Announced
#13Winners Announced! First Place: Nujabez Quite a mesmerizing fractal-esque snowflake of perfect six fold symmetry. It’s hard to capture with words the impression that such epic snowflake leaves. But such detail and flawless symmetric contrast was constructed slowly with very small subunits, if any at all. The background takes no attention from the snowflake itself.…
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13: Snowflake
Yesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow, And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge; Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, and go On towards the pines at the hills’ white verge. I cannot see her, since the mist’s white scarf Obscures the dark wood and the dull orange sky; But she’s waiting,…
