Category: Results Posted
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34.5: Shadow Projection 2 – Winners Announced
1st Place: PleasantZen This piece, titled The Tree on Fire is not about the beauty of magnet spheres, nor the shadow created by them. Rather, the fantastic piece is the result at the intersection of the two. The magnets seem to lay the branches, with individual spheres placed like fruit in a tree. And the…
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33.5: 5 Ring Construction – Winners Announced
1st Place: David Eye catching, when reduced to a small icons. This object was “made entirely with 3 pentagon rings put into a triangles, then made into octahedrons using 8 triangles. Each octahedron is then attached to another on the vertex and then layered with a few more in-complete octahedrons to give it more of…
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32.5: Firearm Construction Entries – Winners Announced
1st Place: EraZorX Magnet sphere sculpting is part art, and part science. EraZorX has mastered both, and has the track record of arguably being the best magnet sphere impressionist in the field where existing objects direct the design. It comes to no surprise that this amazingly well proportioned AK-47 model comes with such fine details. Those…
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31.5: A Symbol or Logo – Winners Announced
1st Place: GalaxyTraveler An elegant, soft, yet sharp rendition of the Android robot. Wallpaper worthy at full resolution. GalaxyTraveler notes that it was photographed inside a light box, on semi-translucent acrylic glass. Appropriate and effective post processing. And cheers to Android OS, and open source software. $75 awarded to GalaxyTraveler, usable on ZenMagnets.com or Neoballs.com.…
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30.5: Human Face Recreation- Winners Announced
1st Place: BenjaminGoosen The most recognizable and well proportioned of all the entries. Solid black background provides no distraction. Relatively clear shot at full resolution. Goosen says, “This is a Guy Fawkes Mask made through blob sculpting (except for the mustache) which in turn made it hard to control specific features such as the mouth.”…
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29.5: Magnetic Landscape Art – Winners Announced!
Small turnout on a very abstract contest. A total of Five entries were submitted, and all participants won magnets. Many people, including ourselvers, weren’t quite sure how to approach the construction of a landscape scene. Now that a a stylistic path has been paved, we’ll try a similar contest again in May 2014. 1st Place:…
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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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27.5: Zen and the Art of Cycle Creation – Winners Announced
Incredible Turnout. And many amazing entries in the April 2012 Single Set Cycle Contest. Most of which are impressive, and clearly the result of above average intelligence. Although the limit of Zen Magnets allowed was merely a single set of 216, there was plenty of room for creative freedom. Since there were so many entries of…
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26.5: Thor Magnet Skirmish – Winners Announced
Only 9 total entries submitted in the February 2012 Thor Sculpting Contest. Of all the contests with a goal of replicating an exsisting object, this might have been one of the hardest. We had two entries that were perfectly tied for first place, many heads above others. Though this was also because our voting system required 5…
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25.5: Hex Race Winners
After the longest delay ever, we finally got around to making the results video for Contest 25. Although the winners were announced on February 6th 2013, and prizes were distributed soon after, our brief summary video is now available, and only about two years late. Remember when we had that “Coming Soon” image on Contest.ZenMagnets.com for two…
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24.5: Musical Instrument Entries Posted – Winners Announced
16 total entries submitted in the January 2013 Musical Instrument contest. A wide array of equipment was represented, though half of them were string instruments. A total of $232 worth of magnetic prizes were awarded in this contest. 1st Place: GalaxyTraveler This Magnet Glockenspiel, or xylophone if made of wood, is made of a total of…
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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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22.5: Magnet Shadow Entries Posted – Winners announced
16 total entries submitted in the October Shadow Projection contest. Coincidentally, there were again ties for 4th place, 5th place and 6th place. Don’t expect 9 winners to be something that happens often! Somehow, just like last time, a total of $239 worth of prizes. 1st Place: Benjamingoossen The photo above, The Man in the…
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21.5: 9-Triangle Subunit contest entries – Winners Announced
Contest 21: Winners Announced. entries from all skill levels in the September Triangle Subunit Contest. With ties for 4th place, 5th place and 6th place, there were a total of 9 winners, an a total of $239 worth of prizes. 1st Place: Mathnetism A repeating sculpture reminiscent of molecular structures of organic chemistry. If we learned anything from…
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20.5: Letter Drive winners
All of the letters have been collected. Almost all the magnets have been sent. And we’ll soon be mailing the letters. Thanks to everybody who contributed a quality essay Without further delay, the two winners of a fresh Mandala set are: David Richter Click here to view. and Eric T. Click here to view.
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19.5: Icosa-Dodeca entries – Winners Announced
Winners Announced! Another incredible turnout, and many impressive entries. With ties for third and fourth place, six contestants will be receiving prizes this round. 1st Place: Koozdra Koozdra work represents the pinnacle of geometric mastery, so there’s no surprise that his fractal-esque object took a 30% lead over second place. As with most of Koozdra’s…
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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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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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16.5: Subunit Contest Entries – Winners announced!
Contest 16: Winners Announced In a massive contest of 33 entries, the quality of the competition was cut-throat. Many were impressively shot, alluringly composed, delightfully lit, and of course superbly built out of hundreds/thousands of Zen Magnets. Of the four that won, each are sharp and precise photos of interesting symettrical builds, lit without flash.…
