If you enjoyed this, *check out the second-channel video:* ►ua-cam.com/video/_ncNHmc3kAw/v-deo.html There was way too much here for just one! Have a great weekend ;)
You seemed to have a lot of fun doing this. If you haven't already, you may want to check out atomic crystal packing lattice structures. Some of the geometries are as beautiful as they are intricate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure#Classification_by_symmetry Careful, Its a rabbit hole one could easily get lost in ; )
pocket83 once again great project and beautiful result, so much information and tips like a lecture on geometry and material science, thank you for sharing this!
It's past midnight and I just spent 20 mins watching a guy gluing marbles together...don't regret a second! There's something oddly calming about your voice. The only ASMR I would watch are these videos.
Thanks, Steve. I appreciate the compliment! I'm kinda proud of these two. Hey, I gave you a (very) brief nod on the second video. Watch it if you get the time.
Rubik's bricks (edge connections), PVC hex board (tiling and glue method!), Copper and ornaments (metal bending and soldering), Building block medley (meaningful linkage distance), Four-piece tetrahedral cannonball puzzle (angle math, puzzle pieces, first epoxy method!), Geodesic sphere puzzle (benefits of elastic puzzle pieces), Platonic solid wireframes (math, jigging/rigging, soldering!), Build of a Flexi (cube) puzzle (piece management, benefits/beauty of similar puzzle pieces), Marble size sorting (material selection, tool construction), Epoxy casting with BBs (well, here we are.. The forerunner to epoxy mastery) 8 years of video's man.. You built up to this video for 8 years. That's dedication.
The editing in this video is great! So many great cuts with supporting B roll and many of the shots have wonderful and beautiful composition. All that and I haven't even mentioned the subject of the video. Layers and layers of entertainment, education and instruction. So good.
Something about marbles is so therapeutic ! Including the sound of them hitting each other. I felt like a child once again. Thanks a bunch for this video !
My brain feels stimulated with the light flowing through the marbles. And the fact that you took the time to do this project with all the math is mind blowing!
What a great project. Part math, part science, part craft project= maker perfection with a big dash of ZEN. But WHY did you not make a clear version? A clear marble octahedron would be stunning, something I would put on my coffee table. Ok, I get it, it's just a personal preference thing and all that, but the light would shine through it so beautifully. Anyway- there is something so beautiful. as you pointed out, about those welds that look molten. This is a great project and as always you do such an incredible job teaching difficult concepts. You are an excellent teacher- great communication skills and the way you go about showing multiple methods for reaching the same end result is very effective. Ok, enough about you.
The amount of effort you put into these projects is inspiring. Not only the end product, but the effort to simplify the process and make it accessible to anyone.
This is your best video, on many levels. Cinematography, math, design ... you’ve nailed it all. It’s not even my favorite of your projects. But damn ... it’s so so good.
Your videography was phenomenal in this project. Along with an interesting project to begin with, you simply make videos that are just so pleasing to watch.
Ok Seriously... I was randomly watching this vijeo and I gotta say. Your presentation was ideal for my particular attention span/type. Interested from start to finish.. Then, after it was over. You jaw-dropped me. I've seen it on paper. Full comprehension. However your simple nonchalant lattice shift, at the end.... It was just so "here, look. See?".... Bravo. Subscribed. Keep it up. Onto more of your vids.
entrancing . . . and the ending with the two shapes was neat. I could see you making a bunch of different shapes and just have them lying around for people to combine in various ways.
This is an absolutely outstanding video with a quality way above most of what is found on UA-cam. Your knowledge, accuracy and creativity are hard to beat. Thank you very much for sharing, those marble patterns are just beautiful!
I found this video completely by accident cause I was struggling with the sum formula and you just explained in two minutes what my math teacher took an hour to explain and I actually understand it. this is sorcery
This video was really interesting, and fun to watch. It's interesting to see how different people approach things differently. You took a mathematical approach, while if someone told me to make a geometric shape like this...I'd probably just sit down with the marbles and work it out piece by piece, fitting them together until they were the shape I wanted. No math involved, just hands on experimenting, and fitting marbles together like a puzzle. Neither way is wrong, and that's what cool about getting to see how someone tackles a project like this.
This is amazing work. I know that it's mostly because of your way of representing it, but it's so satisfying to watch you build puzzles and sculptures.
I was actually just going back through infinite series to brush up. This vid was dropped at the perfect time. Now i feel the need to go look into crystal structures again. These builds are oddly satisfying.
Awesome! I was somewhat amazed at how well the epoxy flowed into the contact points and stayed there. I wouldn't have guessed they could be that clean and neat, I'd have expected a lot of scraping and cleanup... It was like a well soldered joint, when the solder just flows in perfectly, no drips, no mess. Excellent as always! As a side thought, you should look into sharing your musings, ideas, etc. on Steemit. Ya may be a great fit there, and ya could earn a few (or more) bucks as well.
It is *SO* much like soldering, isn't it? That's why I titled it epoxy-soldering. Give it a try- the joints are also surprisingly strong. I don't know what Steemit is, but I'll search it when I get a moment.
TBH, I didn't even notice the "epoxy-solder" in the title...I see Pocket videos and I just click. When I went to your second video, I realized the majority of my comment here was just rehashing what you'd already stated. As for Steemit, I'm just really starting to look into it myself, so I'd probably do a poor job explaining it, but I think it could be really good for a thoughtful, insightful, creative content creator like yourself, and may consume less time than making and editing these 20+min. videos and potentially a better monetary reward for ya. I've got no skin in the game there, so this really is just me sharing something I find potentially helpful for someone like yourself. Cheers!
Yes, at last! Thank you for keeping at it, I really do enjoy all of them and I really apriciate all the different things you try out. Keep them coming Pocket!
Maybe I should've included a spare marble! I'm continuously surprised by how well the process works. The bond is much stronger than you would suppose. I have to ask: what did you think it was when you first saw it? I mean, did you wonder just how the hell I did it?
pocket83 I thought it was for killing wet rot fungus with magical light rays... loI. I knew it was epoxy buy I didn't realise you used capillary action. Funnily I use to use that method with plastic glues all the time at one point. I actually bought some UV glue to try join some marbles myself but I didn't work so well. 😫 I want to make something with marbles too. 😁
2 little ideas; 1st, I believe you can bypass the core marble at the very center and put a white LED light in it's place (Don't really know if you can drill inside a glass marble and put a LED inside, but congrats if you can do it). Of course by adding long wires to the LED, you can continue the same way for the project until the end and after it's finished you can connect it with an external battery and have it turned into a great desk lamp. 2nd, I think if you'd used the same Light Blue marbles in the core and Red marbles on the outside instead of Green ones would've been visually better. Keep being awesome!
I found your patience in the construction amazing! I got to thinking if you made only the exterior layer of the shape and omitted one of the top marbles you could then have a marble light shade. Your video has given me an idea to incorporate something in that line for a future build in one of my clocks. Thanks!
This is the first video I’ve seen from your channel, randomly in my recommended. But this was so interesting! I’ve always loved math and was a physics major for a year in college, but actually switched over to music to get my masters. Art has always been another passion of mine and it’s so refreshing to see art and science be combined like this! Fantastic work!!
I thoroughly enjoyed your building of these marble pyramids, and they are so beautiful! Also I must say which is embarrassing, I am absolutely horrible at math. But I gotta tell you, you explained it so well that I actually understood what you meant!! I can’t wait to try making these. I’m going to check out your other channel also, I’m sure you will be teaching me a lot more projects. And “math” 🤯 Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video and your great explanation of how too!!
I had subscribed to you a loooooong time ago. Your videos have always been great but they have also improved so much. You go into great detail and your projects are always exciting. And then there's a bit of philosophy & geometry too :) thanks!
I love your videos so much. The effort you put, and the overall quality is stunning. I aspire to make videos as good as yours. The fact that you still dedicate so much time to youtube even through all the hate and occasional lack of views is truly astounding.
Love your videos! They remind me of my childhood. MY GRANDPA loved gadgets, puzzles and magic tricks. As a child he would amaze me with all the cool tricks he could do! I always learned something new when I was visiting them:) Thanks for sharing! Really cool project!
Really cool! I very much enjoyed your presentation... very delightful to watch. May God continue to richly bless all that you put your hands to accomplish.
Glad to see you back!!! Clear marbles would be better in the center, but I assume you had the blue near-clear ones already. Also, you missed an excellent opportunity to place an LED or other light source in the middle of the big one!!! I bet that would be gorgeous!
Thanks. I'm sure you'll find the process enjoyable. I hope she likes it! Best of luck. Oh, and there's also a second video (about stands and such) if you're interested: ua-cam.com/video/_ncNHmc3kAw/v-deo.html
I was just watching some of your older videos when I got this in my recommended section. I was actually thinking about fusing marbles like this to create one of those pyramid puzzles for my kids.
The number of bond in a pyramid follows the formula 2n^3+4n²+2n (n is the number of layers minus one so n=1 gives the number of bonds in a 2 layered pyramid). So the total bonds in the two pyramids are 1184. However to bond them together you use more bonds, 7x7x4 more to be specific. So the total should be 1380 bonds. Btw where do you get the marbles from
You’re incorrect about the number of glue spots, the formulas are slightly more complicated. The correct number is 1680, here’s how I got it. (Yes, I took the longer way even though there’s probably a much simpler formula) For every layer itself, when “a” is the number of marbles per side of the layer, to calculate “c”, the number of glue spots; a * (a - 1) * 2 = c For the shape he made, with a center square 8 by 8, the total is 560 drops of glue after multiplying each layer and adding them together. Now, for between the layers. The easiest way to establish the number of glue spots, with “b” representing the number of marbles per side of the center layer; [(b - 1)^2 + (b - 2)^2 + ...] * 8 = c The number 8 accounts for each marble outside of the center layer needing 4 dots of glue, as well as there being two layers of each side. The total after calculation, again with the center being 8 wide, equals 1120. Add the 560 from earlier, and your total is 1680. I believe the formula you used was for a three- sided pyramid, not a four- sided.
I wonder how it would look to use interior glow-in-the-dark marbles. I may consider experimenting with this and get back to you. Thanks for the continued great ideas.
You're tempting me to try this again, dammit!!! I found out that super glue isn't so super, never thought of warming the marbles, so epoxy didn't work either, and sizing the marbles seemed so tedious! Watching your video showed me that a certain amount of tediosity might be a good investment..... My main different approach will be to do the glue-up in layers, so all marbles have all contact points glued.
The regular octohedron is one of my favourite solids. I used to grow alum crystals because of this shape. The light through these marbles is mesmerising and I can only imagine what it would be like if cat's eye marbles were used.
If you wondered how many epoxy connections you would have had to make if you wanted to do all, it would have been 1680. I was bored today so i developed a general formula for calculating the bond number on side length. If you want to know it tell me.
LOVE IT BRO - GREAT JOB - MATH - SCIENCE - SO FUN - GREAT WISDOM - EDIT SUPER - THANK YOU - BEST WISHES TO YOU - THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US - YOU MADE ME HAPPY!
Very interesting video and I've always wondered why people didn't do this previously on a grander scale but epoxy isn't the safest thing for school art classes.
If you enjoyed this, *check out the second-channel video:*
►ua-cam.com/video/_ncNHmc3kAw/v-deo.html
There was way too much here for just one!
Have a great weekend ;)
it's not often that I say this on the internet but thanks
I really enjoy your work keep it up and again thanks
May I be free and ask why a second channel? Could be on this one too just as informative in my opinion :)
You seemed to have a lot of fun doing this. If you haven't already, you may want to check out atomic crystal packing lattice structures. Some of the geometries are as beautiful as they are intricate.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure#Classification_by_symmetry
Careful, Its a rabbit hole one could easily get lost in ; )
pocket83 once again great project and beautiful result, so much information and tips like a lecture on geometry and material science, thank you for sharing this!
Make a puzzle
The lattice shift at the end is making me lose my marbles. Great video!
It's past midnight and I just spent 20 mins watching a guy gluing marbles together...don't regret a second!
There's something oddly calming about your voice. The only ASMR I would watch are these videos.
These are stunning. Amazing process and very engaging video! Beautiful.
Thanks, Steve. I appreciate the compliment! I'm kinda proud of these two. Hey, I gave you a (very) brief nod on the second video. Watch it if you get the time.
Rubik's bricks (edge connections),
PVC hex board (tiling and glue method!),
Copper and ornaments (metal bending and soldering),
Building block medley (meaningful linkage distance),
Four-piece tetrahedral cannonball puzzle (angle math, puzzle pieces, first epoxy method!),
Geodesic sphere puzzle (benefits of elastic puzzle pieces),
Platonic solid wireframes (math, jigging/rigging, soldering!),
Build of a Flexi (cube) puzzle (piece management, benefits/beauty of similar puzzle pieces),
Marble size sorting (material selection, tool construction),
Epoxy casting with BBs (well, here we are.. The forerunner to epoxy mastery)
8 years of video's man.. You built up to this video for 8 years. That's dedication.
So worth it
The editing in this video is great! So many great cuts with supporting B roll and many of the shots have wonderful and beautiful composition. All that and I haven't even mentioned the subject of the video. Layers and layers of entertainment, education and instruction. So good.
Something about marbles is so therapeutic ! Including the sound of them hitting each other. I felt like a child once again. Thanks a bunch for this video !
My brain feels stimulated with the light flowing through the marbles. And the fact that you took the time to do this project with all the math is mind blowing!
What a great project. Part math, part science, part craft project= maker perfection with a big dash of ZEN. But WHY did you not make a clear version? A clear marble octahedron would be stunning, something I would put on my coffee table. Ok, I get it, it's just a personal preference thing and all that, but the light would shine through it so beautifully. Anyway- there is something so beautiful. as you pointed out, about those welds that look molten. This is a great project and as always you do such an incredible job teaching difficult concepts. You are an excellent teacher- great communication skills and the way you go about showing multiple methods for reaching the same end result is very effective. Ok, enough about you.
By all means, continue showering me with praise! Seriously though, thank you. Simply put, I just couldn't find clear marbles. I leave that to you ;)
I appreciate how you always have the physical visual pieces to demonstrate the details of understanding
The way you described the math formula made it go from looking mind boggling to realistically understandable. Cheers.
These are the kinds of people who actually deserve the viewers and yet they have less viewers than the people who don’t deserve it..
Reminded me of my favourite sphere-stacking formula: ρ=τ/√72 where rho is the density of the spheres and tau is just there to annoy Matt Parker.
I think this is the video where they talk about that formula: ua-cam.com/video/3inLMXcetUA/v-deo.html
But using Tau, you will make Vi Hart happy.
parker sphere
My brain is not meant for maths... thank god for languages though...
The amount of effort you put into these projects is inspiring. Not only the end product, but the effort to simplify the process and make it accessible to anyone.
I'm a simple man. I see a new pocket83 video, I click like. Love your content
This is incredibly entertaining. You really know how to talk to an audience.
Would be neat to do this with all clear marbles and hook up some sort of RGB to the stand. Great video, Pocket.
Your demonstrations of techniques and the relevant physical processes are extremely good.
This technique would lend itself quite well to some very interesting 3D marble puzzles. Going to have to take a go myself! Thanks for the great vid.
Thank you! Here's one to get you started:
ua-cam.com/video/Q4CnL7VdR8o/v-deo.html
This is your best video, on many levels. Cinematography, math, design ... you’ve nailed it all. It’s not even my favorite of your projects. But damn ... it’s so so good.
I’ve been OBSESSED with shapes lately and this is a great project to feed my makers block
SQUID check out Vihart
Really enjoyable build video.
Your videography was phenomenal in this project. Along with an interesting project to begin with, you simply make videos that are just so pleasing to watch.
Ok Seriously... I was randomly watching this vijeo and I gotta say. Your presentation was ideal for my particular attention span/type. Interested from start to finish.. Then, after it was over. You jaw-dropped me. I've seen it on paper. Full comprehension. However your simple nonchalant lattice shift, at the end.... It was just so "here, look. See?".... Bravo. Subscribed. Keep it up. Onto more of your vids.
entrancing . . . and the ending with the two shapes was neat. I could see you making a bunch of different shapes and just have them lying around for people to combine in various ways.
Your videos are so relaxing and interesting. I’m not subscribed to any other channels like this, but I love yours. Keep them coming :)
This is an absolutely outstanding video with a quality way above most of what is found on UA-cam. Your knowledge, accuracy and creativity are hard to beat. Thank you very much for sharing, those marble patterns are just beautiful!
That's really nice and the ending with the lattice structure is the best part.
I found this video completely by accident cause I was struggling with the sum formula and you just explained in two minutes what my math teacher took an hour to explain and I actually understand it. this is sorcery
This video was really interesting, and fun to watch. It's interesting to see how different people approach things differently. You took a mathematical approach, while if someone told me to make a geometric shape like this...I'd probably just sit down with the marbles and work it out piece by piece, fitting them together until they were the shape I wanted. No math involved, just hands on experimenting, and fitting marbles together like a puzzle.
Neither way is wrong, and that's what cool about getting to see how someone tackles a project like this.
This is amazing work. I know that it's mostly because of your way of representing it, but it's so satisfying to watch you build puzzles and sculptures.
can u put a light inside it😅 thats will be cool I think😍
I was actually just going back through infinite series to brush up. This vid was dropped at the perfect time. Now i feel the need to go look into crystal structures again. These builds are oddly satisfying.
Awesome! I was somewhat amazed at how well the epoxy flowed into the contact points and stayed there. I wouldn't have guessed they could be that clean and neat, I'd have expected a lot of scraping and cleanup... It was like a well soldered joint, when the solder just flows in perfectly, no drips, no mess. Excellent as always! As a side thought, you should look into sharing your musings, ideas, etc. on Steemit. Ya may be a great fit there, and ya could earn a few (or more) bucks as well.
It is *SO* much like soldering, isn't it? That's why I titled it epoxy-soldering. Give it a try- the joints are also surprisingly strong. I don't know what Steemit is, but I'll search it when I get a moment.
TBH, I didn't even notice the "epoxy-solder" in the title...I see Pocket videos and I just click. When I went to your second video, I realized the majority of my comment here was just rehashing what you'd already stated. As for Steemit, I'm just really starting to look into it myself, so I'd probably do a poor job explaining it, but I think it could be really good for a thoughtful, insightful, creative content creator like yourself, and may consume less time than making and editing these 20+min. videos and potentially a better monetary reward for ya. I've got no skin in the game there, so this really is just me sharing something I find potentially helpful for someone like yourself. Cheers!
Outstanding, incredible creativity, craftsmanship, and ingenuity!
This is one of the coolest build videos I have ever seen. Loved the mathematical analysis!
Thanks!
Good job, really liking your resin and marble vids man
Yes, at last! Thank you for keeping at it, I really do enjoy all of them and I really apriciate all the different things you try out. Keep them coming Pocket!
I love all the sciencey bits...3 kinds of size sorting set ups for the marbles, im. impressed.
The octahedron of transcendence!Also, really cool.
You have doomed my wallet and all available surface space in my room. These projects are fascinating and I am compelled to replicate them.
Wow, your design really catches the light. Thank you for sharing.
I put the one you sent me somewhere where I keep knocking it and it spins and spins and spins, and then drops and it still hasn't broken! :)
Maybe I should've included a spare marble! I'm continuously surprised by how well the process works. The bond is much stronger than you would suppose. I have to ask: what did you think it was when you first saw it? I mean, did you wonder just how the hell I did it?
pocket83 I thought it was for killing wet rot fungus with magical light rays... loI. I knew it was epoxy buy I didn't realise you used capillary action. Funnily I use to use that method with plastic glues all the time at one point. I actually bought some UV glue to try join some marbles myself but I didn't work so well. 😫 I want to make something with marbles too. 😁
You deserve a lot more subs an views
2 little ideas;
1st, I believe you can bypass the core marble at the very center and put a white LED light in it's place (Don't really know if you can drill inside a glass marble and put a LED inside, but congrats if you can do it). Of course by adding long wires to the LED, you can continue the same way for the project until the end and after it's finished you can connect it with an external battery and have it turned into a great desk lamp.
2nd, I think if you'd used the same Light Blue marbles in the core and Red marbles on the outside instead of Green ones would've been visually better.
Keep being awesome!
Best channel on UA-cam, always glad to see a new video from you, they never fail to inspire me.
Your videos are always fantastic. You have a unique combination of creativity and ingenuity.
I found your patience in the construction amazing! I got to thinking if you made only the exterior layer of the shape and omitted one of the top marbles you could then have a marble light shade. Your video has given me an idea to incorporate something in that line for a future build in one of my clocks. Thanks!
This is the first video I’ve seen from your channel, randomly in my recommended. But this was so interesting! I’ve always loved math and was a physics major for a year in college, but actually switched over to music to get my masters. Art has always been another passion of mine and it’s so refreshing to see art and science be combined like this! Fantastic work!!
This is the kewlest thing I've ever seen! I'm trying this with smaller marbles!
I’m crap at maths and I understood that no problem, good job! Still blew my mind at the end..
Love the comunal lattice explanation at the end.
Very high quality video. Great work!!! The larger one's would make a great accent light, or maybe a night light??? BEAUTIFUL!
From dollar store to craft show. Definitely going to try this.
Those are neat! They look beautiful, and they teach advanced math skills! So cool.
Awesome. You should be a math professor. You really have a talent for it.
This was a beautiful video
(Not only because you made small ramiel's, one of the angels in neon genesis evangelion, I love ramiel)
I thoroughly enjoyed your building of these marble pyramids, and they are so beautiful! Also I must say which is embarrassing, I am absolutely horrible at math. But I gotta tell you, you explained it so well that I actually understood what you meant!! I can’t wait to try making these. I’m going to check out your other channel also, I’m sure you will be teaching me a lot more projects. And “math” 🤯 Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video and your great explanation of how too!!
I had subscribed to you a loooooong time ago. Your videos have always been great but they have also improved so much. You go into great detail and your projects are always exciting. And then there's a bit of philosophy & geometry too :) thanks!
i was going to do this but I lost my marbles
Does not disappoint as usual. Very cool build! So much time and patience on this.
I love your videos so much. The effort you put, and the overall quality is stunning. I aspire to make videos as good as yours. The fact that you still dedicate so much time to youtube even through all the hate and occasional lack of views is truly astounding.
The most satisfying video of 2018!! Couldn't take my eyes off the screen!
I love these. Saved the video to my 'Things to Do' file. Thank you.
This method would be great for making large glass perler style ornaments. Nice work!
These look beautiful. Awesome paper weights!
Love your videos! They remind me of my childhood. MY GRANDPA loved gadgets, puzzles and magic tricks. As a child he would amaze me with all the cool tricks he could do! I always learned something new when I was visiting them:) Thanks for sharing! Really cool project!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed.
I found a lot of enjoyment in this video!
Really cool! I very much enjoyed your presentation... very delightful to watch. May God continue to richly bless all that you put your hands to accomplish.
Glad to see you back!!!
Clear marbles would be better in the center, but I assume you had the blue near-clear ones already.
Also, you missed an excellent opportunity to place an LED or other light source in the middle of the big one!!! I bet that would be gorgeous!
Takes me back to solid state chemistry in uni!
Your visual aids are much better!
Man, I really really love your videos, but this one is probably the the one I enjoyed most.
Great. This was a tough one to make. I hope you try it!
Oh, and watch the second part!
ua-cam.com/video/_ncNHmc3kAw/v-deo.html
Amazing, thank you for video. My granddaughter will love a couple of these. Buying marbles today.👍
Thanks. I'm sure you'll find the process enjoyable. I hope she likes it! Best of luck.
Oh, and there's also a second video (about stands and such) if you're interested:
ua-cam.com/video/_ncNHmc3kAw/v-deo.html
I really admire your knowledge and creativity! It's amazing!
Mind blowing and soothing at the same time
I was just watching some of your older videos when I got this in my recommended section. I was actually thinking about fusing marbles like this to create one of those pyramid puzzles for my kids.
Wish I had the discipline to make the things you do. Awesome work
I love how you over complicate everything in the process and how you're such a perfectionist. I'm the exact way and everyone around me hates it 😂
VERY SOOTHING VOICE AND WORK. ENJOYED SO MUCH GOING TO HAVE MY NEPHEW SEE THIS
very soothing to watch - educating and interesting and I really just had to watch it to the end.
*_THE OCTOHEDRON OF T R A N C E N D E N C E_*
You should make a container, bottom with lid, to serve hard candies from. Also, make a cluster of grapes. Looks really good!
The number of bond in a pyramid follows the formula 2n^3+4n²+2n (n is the number of layers minus one so n=1 gives the number of bonds in a 2 layered pyramid). So the total bonds in the two pyramids are 1184. However to bond them together you use more bonds, 7x7x4 more to be specific. So the total should be 1380 bonds.
Btw where do you get the marbles from
You’re incorrect about the number of glue spots, the formulas are slightly more complicated. The correct number is 1680, here’s how I got it. (Yes, I took the longer way even though there’s probably a much simpler formula)
For every layer itself, when “a” is the number of marbles per side of the layer, to calculate “c”, the number of glue spots;
a * (a - 1) * 2 = c
For the shape he made, with a center square 8 by 8, the total is 560 drops of glue after multiplying each layer and adding them together.
Now, for between the layers. The easiest way to establish the number of glue spots, with “b” representing the number of marbles per side of the center layer;
[(b - 1)^2 + (b - 2)^2 + ...] * 8 = c
The number 8 accounts for each marble outside of the center layer needing 4 dots of glue, as well as there being two layers of each side. The total after calculation, again with the center being 8 wide, equals 1120. Add the 560 from earlier, and your total is 1680. I believe the formula you used was for a three- sided pyramid, not a four- sided.
Master71017 The answer is 1680 but I came up with a different formula for it
Very cool. Also, I’m glad that you’re using your next-level super-genius powers for good.
I wonder how it would look to use interior glow-in-the-dark marbles. I may consider experimenting with this and get back to you. Thanks for the continued great ideas.
So beautiful. This would be a great children's toy!
You're tempting me to try this again, dammit!!! I found out that super glue isn't so super, never thought of warming the marbles, so epoxy didn't work either, and sizing the marbles seemed so tedious! Watching your video showed me that a certain amount of tediosity might be a good investment..... My main different approach will be to do the glue-up in layers, so all marbles have all contact points glued.
The regular octohedron is one of my favourite solids. I used to grow alum crystals because of this shape. The light through these marbles is mesmerising and I can only imagine what it would be like if cat's eye marbles were used.
Damn, you are my one of my favorite channels to watch on youtube!!!!!
If you wondered how many epoxy connections you would have had to make if you wanted to do all, it would have been 1680. I was bored today so i developed a general formula for calculating the bond number on side length. If you want to know it tell me.
How'd you get that?
Well done, sir. Very thought provoking.
LOVE IT BRO - GREAT JOB - MATH - SCIENCE - SO FUN - GREAT WISDOM - EDIT SUPER - THANK YOU - BEST WISHES TO YOU - THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US - YOU MADE ME HAPPY!
I really enjoy all of your videos. This was my favorite one. Thank you!
but can it scream and shoot lasers?
One of my first thoughts was "wonder how that would look with a laser shining through it?"
I understand that reference.
*[SCREAMS GEOMETRICALLY]*
I was looking forward to epic explosions and a high body count.
Very interesting video and I've always wondered why people didn't do this previously on a grander scale but epoxy isn't the safest thing for school art classes.
Always excited when you upload again
Those separated ones at the end would make a great desk puzzle for people to toy with while waiting
Great to see you back!
A brilliant art form and well executed!
Thank you for sharing your process.
I️ have a feeling I️ will be unlocking an achievement someday soon!
I really enjoyed this video and find your marble sculpture quite beautiful. Keep up the good work.