Category: Results Posted
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66.5 Non-Fiction Auto – Winners Announced
1st Place – tend2it tend2it secured 1st place for the Automobile contest with his recreation of the Ariel Atom 3.5R. Utilizing a mix of Zen Magnets and colorful Neoballs, he was able to construct a solid build and achieve nice contrast between separate parts of the vehicle. For a layer by layer construction, check tend2it’s…
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64.5: Famous Landmarks Unlimited – Winners Announced
1st place: Ben Cannon – Tower of Pisa The voters have spoken and Ben takes 1st place with his interpretation of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Here’s what he had to say on his process: “I had to get a bit creative with making pillars for such a small model, so I ended up settling…
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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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62.5: Gallery Revue – Results, sorta
This last contest was Shihan’s idea, and it was a terrible idea. Blame him. We had only 12 participants. Though, even if we did have more nominations, that would have just made the voting even more impossible. Plus the requirements were too unavoidably subjective, the incentives were badly aligned, and the results were riddled with…
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61.5 Chain Reaction – Winners Announced
1st Place: Mathnetism Mathnetism’s magnetic ghost dominoes pulled ahead for the big win. The columns topple each other without ever touching, and the constructions themselves are quite precarious to build. Mathnetism receives $250 in Zen Credits for 1st place. 2nd Place: Aidan Aidan’s clever use of completing a chain to initiate a reaction…
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60.5 Shadow Projection Threequel – Winners Announced
1st Place: Vivien “Zödel, Escher, Nach.” was inspired by the cover of a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter which portrays the letters G E B. Vivien undertook the challenge of recreating this photo, changing the shadow letters to Z E N, and figuring out how to light it. On top of that, a shape constructed…
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59.5 Popsicle Stick Balancing Act – Winners Announced
1st Place: Smiley Face 🙂 Smiley Face slipped into first place with this delicate balancing act, which utilizes a mere 216 magnets. It just goes to show that a Triumph Set is all you need to take home the gold in a Zen Magnets contest. 😃 had this to say about their process, “I…
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58.5: Unlimited Zen Dinosaurs – Winners Announced
1st place: Tend2it Tend2it overcame the obstacles of this challenge and came out on top with a stylistic, well crafted dinosaur. “The challenging aspects with this build include: how to generate a 3D look building outward, how to create the legs strong enough to support the body, how to get the rounded body profile layer by layer,…
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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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56.5: Cubic Figure-eight Knot Created
Not only was the explicitly defined goal accomplished, just a day after the challenge was announced, but we had 3 successful entries entered within a 24 hour period. First was Mathnetism himself, who’s cubic trefoil knot inspired this contest in the first place. Submitted on June 28, 5:11PM (MST), with 3490 Zen Magnets used,…
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55: Contests Reawaken [Correct Guess Found]
[Edit: The correct guess of 4740 was found on 7/2/2018 via Facebook.com/Neoballs] Geometry Guesswork Holy guacamole, this place has gotten dusty. Untouched since April 2015. We’ll work on sprucing up the whole contest ship while we’re in the air. For now, the Zen Contest revival launches with two simultaneous challenges: One low-ish effort, and one high effort. This…
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44.5: Single Set Origami – Winners Announced + Contest Hibernation
Many wonderful submissions for contest 44, the single set origami challenge. Bit first, an announcement: Contest & Gallery Hibernation Begins This is the last contest we’ll be holding in the near future, and at the end of the month we’ll be discontinuing gallery prizes. As many of you have already noticed, we’ve been a zero income company…
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43.5: Castle Submissions – Winners Announced
1st Place: Mathnetism Fancifully proportioned castle, with stylistically coherent build pattern. The close packed parallel lattice pattern is found on nearly every surface, yet details are distinct and seamlessly integrated. A welcoming symmetry at the gates flows into a variety of believable buildings. Would love to see a time-lapse of this build. Simply titled Castle, Mathnetism wins $150 Zen Credits for…
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42.5: Non-Circular Planetary Gear Created
Mathnetism Has Succeeded.. .. in designing a planetary gear set, with non-circular planet gears, using only magnet spheres. This was an expert build, of a genius design. $300 Zen Awarded. Here’s his demo video: And here’s our recreation of Mathnetism’s design, to confirm form and function: The video above is already in red/cyan, since YouTube…
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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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39.5: Flagship Video Results
Flagship Video Contest Results We received 61 entries, 44 of them qualified for at least a free set of magnets, about thirty are arguably better than the original video, but only 12 could be selected for the judging panel. The amount of video generated by the magnet sphere community was incredible. The 44 qualified videos amount…
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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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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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36.5: 2R Hex Set – Winners Announced
1st Place: Waynehjr1 “Seahorse Pride”. A wonderful representation of a seahorse proudly riding his tail across the waters surface, almost like a dolphin. “This was a little tricky getting it to balance properly, but a magnetic mirror under the scenes helped a lot. This was one of my first creations when tackling this contest.” Nice…
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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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