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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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14.5: Sphere Race Results
Winners posted. See Video Below. Available in 720p and 1080p.
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14: Mini Sphere Race
Similar to last January, this month is a video contest to see who can make the fastest C60 sphere. Although only 60 magnets are needed, the starting shape will be 72 magnets, in a two layer 3R-Hex form as shown below. You will need a video camera that will record at a resolution of 640…
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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,…
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12.5: Gyroid Created.
Here’s the completed gyroid in all of it’s glory: Make sure to turn on the 720p for that clip. Also put on some red/cyan 3D glasses if you have them. The above was our recreation of the gyroid using the instructions given to us by origamimarie. It was hard! Zinc Neoballs used because we were…
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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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12: Wanted: The Gyroid
What do butterflies, ketchup, microcellular structures, and plastics have in common? This time we’re doing a contest like never before. By far the most geometrically ambitious magnet sphere project to date. And the bounty, is Four zen sets to the first person who can make a section of the gyroid. An infinitely connected triply periodic…
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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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10.5: Magnet Tree Entries. Winners announced.
First Place: YoYoBandalore Professionally shot and constructed by one of the Zen gallery veterans, this symmetrical tree consists of zen magnets, and one blue neoball for flare. Incredible contrast and clarity. Click the picture to see the details in the reflections. Incredible. Second Place: Gami7900 A newcomer with a strong sense of bonsai wins one…
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10: Magnet Sphere Tree
Lots of lateral liberty on the the Zen Magnet Challenge of September ’11: Make a tree. A palm tree? A pine tree? Some abstract crazy tree that only you identify as a tree? Sure. Any sort of tree. Use up to a total of 1728 magnet spheres, of any brand, to hand grow a sculpture…
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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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8.5: Cityscape entries are in.
Some of the most elaborate entries yet. Ctrl+Click on the image to open original size in new tab. Names link to profiles. Voting is complete! The first place winner of the July Zen Magnet Cityscape contest is GalaxyTraveler. The lighting and reflections are flawless, thanks to an incredibly clever setup. The colors and composition are…
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8.0: We’re back. Wanna build a city?
We’re back! And the contest for the month of July to make the best photo of a zen magnet cityscape. For the first time, there is No Limit to how many zen magnets you may use in this contest. However, you may only submit one photo, so don’t build what won’t be seen. Creative use…
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7.6: TP Macro results. Also some bad news.
In first place is a Toilet paper lily and a Zen vase by dblueeye.tw. Each leaf carefully cut and placed. Wonderful composition and background selection. You really need to see the full size photo to appreciate the details involved. Click the picture! In second is a dreamy mini zen basket by dylanschepers. Autumn picnic with…
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7.3: We don’t know how to judge these. Help!
Having an incredibly hard time picking out a winner here at Zen Magnet HQ. Fifteen total entries. Each featuring 72 magnets, photographed in macro. Some extremely elaborate use of toilet paper involved. We had no idea what to expect, but as usual, contestants did not fail to impress. Click on the thumbnails to see the…
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7: Macro Zen and the art of Toilet Paper prop placement.
This one’s silly. Credit goes to our gallery members. First place gets 2 free zen sets, second place one free set. The Zen Magnet challenge of May ’11 is to make and photograph something awesome and creative with the use of toilet paper. Use a maximum of only 72 Zen Magnets, and be wary of…
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6.5: Art contest voting at r/openart
There are a hundred entries! Quite impressive goodies inside, and since it’s all public domain, feel free to decorate your walls. We’ve setup voting on good ol’ reddit at /r/openart. Unfortunately the thumbnails aren’t working, so you’ll actually have to click links to browse the entries. Click up on the grey arrow to upvote, and…
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