Category: 432
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57.5: Creepy Crawly – Winners Announced
1st Place: Tend2it Tend2it thought a Wasp would be a fun challenge and beautifully captured the proportions of the head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and wings in a striped Yellow Jacket color scheme using NeoBalls. “The most challenging aspects were the wings (used a double-layer coupled structure to get them to deploy out straight) and the single-strand…
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57: Creepy Crawly Challenge
“Together even the smallest can achieve the greatest goal.” – A Bug’s Life Now that we’ve got everyone’s attention and contests are up and running again, our July contest should allow for a little more creative freedom. We challenge each of you to create a 3D Sculpture of an arachnid or insect using between…
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37.5: Hanging Sculpture – Winners Announced
1st Place: EraZorx EraZorX, the master magnet sphere impressionist, is back. Combining the disciplines of frame architecture with ring curvature control to create a sculpture of one of the few animals that lives most of it’s life hanging on it’s feet. “One of my breakthroughs in development [of the Hanging Bat] was realizing I didn’t need…
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37: A Hanging Ornament
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. -Alan Cohen The January 2014 contest is to create a hanging sculpture using a maximum of 432 Zen Magnets. This is one of the less restrictive contests, so impress with your imagination. Only 4 magnets can…
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35.5: Sea Life Contest – Winners, Bitcoin Announced
Zen Credits can now be exchanged for Bitcoin. Details following winners announcements. 1st Place: KylarF The judges must have had a difficult time with this contest, since there were so many wonderful entries. One dynamic that changes when a contest has many entries (like 15) as opposed to less entries (like 6) is that…
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35: Two Set Sea Life
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Alan Watts The November 2013 contest is to sculpt a single organism of the sea. A fish, a turtle, a dolphin, or even a sponge. Whichever one living creature you choose, it must live the…
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28.5: Two Set Monopoly – Winners Announced
Great turnout on the May Monopoly Piece contest. There were 14 entries, though over half of them were tophats. This is probably because it was the most simple of the monopoly piece options shown. But we all have to start somewhere. Magnets spheres generally appeal to math nerds and the intellectually gifted, but to nobody does understanding of…
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28: Classic Monopoly
Fun Fact: The board game Monopoly was originally invented to teach people about the evils of capitalism. And then the Parker Brothers took over, and made millions 😀 There’s a range of creative freedom presented in Zen Magnet contests. On the end with less restrictions, there have been contests to build anything with a certain…
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18.5: Two set spaceship entries posted – WINNERS ANNOUNCED
WINNERS ANNOUNCED So after extended voting, the standings were much more clear. These contests just keep getting better and better. There were a lot of ties this time, so a total of 9 people will be receiving prizes. 1st Place: EraZorX Undoubtedly a veteran with magnet spheres, EraZorX is one of the true champions in…
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19: All out Icosahedral-Dodecahedral dual – Submissions closed.
The June contest, is to build a sculpture with magnet sphere sculpture with a symmetry order of 12. That is, that there should be 12 number of different but equivalent views of the sculpture. Don’t be alarmed, this is actually a very easy geometric requirement. If you’ve ever made anything that resembled a ball, it…
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18: Two Set Spaceship
By popular Demand, the May contest is to make a two set spaceship. When you build something abstract, with no real goal in mind, isn’t it odd that the result can almost always be construed as a spaceship. Probably because spaceships come in such varied shapes, and are also essential to our science fiction fantasies…
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15.5: Contest 15 Entries – Winners Announced
Contest 15: Winners Announced 1st Place The Rare Zen Seahorse by YoYoBandalore Back again to lead the way, YoYoBandalore scored first place with his signature combination of build ingenuity, high fidelity photography, and strong contrast. The shot is well composed, cropped exactly as needed, and generous with resolution. Click for full size 2nd Scottish Terrier…
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15: Milkdrop
Start with a messy blob of 216 to 432 Zen Magnets, and without removing any individual magnets, pinch and sculpt anything that you’d like. Something you might want to try, is to pinch a blob into the thinnest possible layer of magnets, and then folding up the sides to form a somewhat random 3d sculpture.…
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11.5: Butterfly entries. Winners announced!
#11 Winners (Finally) Announced! First Place, again: YoYoBandalore The polls have spoken. For the second third contest in a row, YoYoBandalore comes in first, to win two free sets of Zen. The winning combination of great photography and unique magnet poetry does it again. Color neoballs used. The photo itself is well composed, as are…
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11: Butterfly
Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. The October contest is to build a wide winged insect, focusing more on the wings than the insect part. Use up to a total of 432 magnet spheres, of any brand, to to create a sculpture or…
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9.5: 2R-Hex Building entries. Winners announced!
It wasn’t easy trying to model architecture, with only 432 magnets, and a very specific subunit guideline. Voting was close on this one; understandably because there were many great entries. Hit the images to see original size. Names link to profiles. 1 By: Dimitri Tishchenko 2 By: masontc 3 By: CairasTravis 4 By: Thomas Wilder…
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9: 2R-Hex Architecture
The contest of August ’11, is to form a building, using 24 2Radius-Hexagon sheets. You may of course fold the hex sheets, and join them to form other sub units. Use no more than 432 magnets, also known as 24 sheets of two radius hexagons. How abstract should your architecture be? Hard to say, but…
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3.5: Cybernetics Core Results
The Winner – Ben A. A total of 9 entries were received, and the duty of judging was handed to r/starcraft. As tend2it said, “A unique interpretation of the details … well done!” Exactly 432 Zen Magnets were used in this composition of the SCII cyber core. Great Job. Second place – Axentiu97 Click the…
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3: Crucial Protoss Tech Building
The next contest is to build a cybernetics core (SCII) out of zen magnets, and photograph it well. First place gets two Zen sets. Second place gets one. Rules: 432 or less magnets No use of camera flash Zen Magnets only Although Starcraft fans and non-Starcraft fans alike can appreciate the abstract architecture that is…
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2.5: Viking 1 results
First Place goes to WTG_Fireflex. Great representation, and only 216 magnets used! The body is well elevated, tripod legs distinct, and even the baggage is well defined. Bad camera, but offset by a very magnetic background. Click the picture for full size. Second Place goes to HYPRKLSTRKMPLX. Clear shot, with relatively good depth of field.…
