Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Hyperdodecahedron Model Kit!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- A perfect weekend project is this beautiful model kit: the Hyperdo from Zometools. Adam received one based on the recommendation of his good friend Kevin Kelly, and spends the day putting this complex geometric object together. It's a hyperdodecahedron--or more specifically the 3D projection of the 4D object known as the 120-cell. It's not a simple assembly, but the finished model is so very rewarding!
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Shot by Adam Savage and edited by Gunther Kirsch
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looks like you are allergic to something on this plastics
Hi, would it be possible to get the name for the music at 14:18 ?
Hi Adam
Difficulty depends on how into your math you are.
@@wobblysauce I was pretty good in math back in my day
That hidden geometry comment towards the end: in northern sweden there are massive areas of farmed trees, they're planted in exact grids, at a distance from the wrong angle it looks like any forest, but at the right angles (90, 45 etc) you can see straight through massively far, and then it vanishes, mesmerizing to watch on the train to/from Umeå.
There are large chunks of plantation forest in Australia as well, though if you looked at them you'd instantly suspect that they were planted, if only because pines and Australia are not a common association. But, the visual effect can be stunning at the right season.
@@KarltheKrazyone
In Newcastle Australia just down from a pub in the CBD There was a narrow rubbished strewn ally, and if you glanced up it in the wee small hours as you where staggering away from the pub, you would see at the end of it a misty magical moonlit forest. When you when back in the hard light of day, only thing at the end of the ally was a normal street. After this had happened a few times and you had to give it some less Guinness powered though, to work out what the hell was going on. it turned out just to be the sea mist combining with the street lights to blur everything else and emphasize the half dozen trees in a nice misty glow.
Umeå? A friend of mine is from there
I am proud to say I was involved with the genesis of this tool and have an original kit with my name on the list of contributors! Hi Paul! Hi Marc!
legend
This reminds me of when I worked at a hobby shop (like Michael's) in the kids department. One day I came in and they told me I had a special project. Instead of my regular work I was going to be building a K'nex roller coaster for a display. I never used K'nex before but that was my whole day, building that roller coaster.
Adam, I lived in the same building as Buckminster Fuller. I used to deliver his paper a boy and my mother work with him when she was employed at the Franklin Laboratory that was across from the Franklin Institute as a technical illustrator in the 70's. Bucky Balls are very well known in our family.
I live in Virginia Beach, VA. We used to have a geodesic dome building designed by Buckminster Fuller. It has been gone now for over 25 years. The city demolished it. Jimi Hendrix played there. So did the Rolling Stones. The city renamed it the Alan B. Shepard Convention Center back in 1961, but it never got called that. It was always "The Dome".
I've been waiting for ZOOB stories since Adam's casual mentioning of it a little while back.
*checks username* Who?
You can build projections of all 6 regular polychorons with Zometool! Note that you'll need to get some of the green spars for the 5,16,and 24 cell ones.
You have to be *extremely* careful with the 600-cell, though, since it's so compact and rigid that it's hard to get the pieces in, and hard to take apart without breaking off some of the nubs on the spars inside the balls.
Love it. A couple of months ago I got obsessed with polyhedra and ended up building the Platonic and Archimedean solids out of paper, with one color per polygon (so all individual faces). Took me a couple of weeks in the evenings, but it was very rewarding in the end. I can confirm that once you start studying these objects, you notice relationships and properties that you never before realized existed.
That sounds really cool. Do you have any links to pics of it?
In the 70's I once spent an evening with Mr. and Mrs. R. Buckminster Fuller. In his 70's, the frail old man took the podium, fumbled with the mic, flattened his notes with his hand then SUDDENLY came a non stop firehose of information. It was like hearing the description of a golf game played in a tennis court by a guy jumping up and down! A night of anecdotes packed with formulas at 100 miles an hour. It was confusing, life affirming and inspiring. Now I'm a 74 year old guy, still digesting parts of that night. Thanks Bucky - and Adam for the memory flog.
Sounds like you could play a pretty solid game of "6 degrees of separation" using Adam Savage...
Malcom Gladwell would call him a connector, I think. (And yes, that is a very maven thing to say. I am aware.)
6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.......
@@slicktop2jz855 Can you get from Kevin to Adam?
@@joermnyc Yes, but you need a rig. lol
@@joermnyc Adam has a Bacon Number of at most 3 (2 people between him and Kevin Bacon). Adam made a guitar case for Eric Idle, who was in a movie with John Cleese, who was in a movie with Kevin Bacon.
UPDATE: Adam has a Bacon Number of 2: He worked on Matrix reloaded, which starred (1) Laurence Fishburne
, who was also in Mystic River with (2) Kevin Bacon.
it's a Bucky Ball!!! I recognized it on the front of the jar. When we were in high school our science teacher had us build approximately 1 foot Bucky balls in class with drinking straws. Our class found them so interesting and loved the engineering challenge of it that we asked if we could build a BIG Bucky Ball. She was happy to oblige. The 10 of us (small Midwest school) ended up building a 10 foot tall Bucky Ball in our gymnasium with pvc pipe & plumbing joints. It was a truly fun project and looked insane when finished.
You can tell Adam was excited, he didn't even stop to knoll the parts before he started assembly.
What do small hills have to do with assembling things?
@@NirateGoel To knoll is to lay out all the parts in an arranged pattern, so you can easily access each one when you need it, instead of having to dig through the pile. It's very applicable to legos... having each size of brick placed in a pile makes it a lot easier to make a model. It's also a very satisfying and ocd and perhaps zen thing to arrange parts in a nice clean pattern before you start. :)
Norman’s head must have exploded when he saw that. All these years of parroting knolling just to find out the master can do without. Every time I hear that word from tested, I cannot roll my eyes hard enough.
shout out to the 4 people watching this who are yelling "I HAVE THAT KIT!" and are now running to fetch their own to build along with Adam.
I have 2 Hyperdō sets, so technically it’s 3 people. I love the Zomes.
@@LucidGeometry grab a friend and both build-a-long with Adam together!
So cool but not willing to spend the $150 it costs lol
it me!
@@ThereIsNoRoot That's 3 kits accounted for! I wonder when number 4 will show up?
It's pretty complex yet beautiful.
it's the "hypercube" for a dodecahedron. The cube has 6 sides and 12 lines meeting in 8 corners (or vertices), a dodecahedron has 12 sides and 30 edges meeting in 20 vertices... if you blow it up to make it from 3D to 4D (what a "hyper"-body does) it obviously will have a lot more of additional components compared to a cube/hypercube...
Wikipedia says as a summary: There are 120 cells, 720 pentagonal faces, 1200 edges, and 600 vertices.
The moment when Adam tilts the camera up, revealing a life size Han in carbonite that I've never seen before.
The moment you don't give a timestamp for to help out those of us who listen more than watch...
@@westrim @30:36
@@steelbluesleepR Ah, thank you.
2:20 "I"m not going to remember the full taxonomy of the Platonic solids."
Allow me to be of assistance! For any D&D nerds out there, other than the d10 (a pentagonal deltahedron), all the different polyhedral dice are the five Platonic solids:
- The d4 (a tetrahedron)
- The d6 (a cube)
- The d8 (an octohedron, basically two Egyptian pyramids joined at their bases)
- The d12 (a dodecahedron, what Adam's building here)
- The d20 (an icosahedron)
obviously crushed your wisdom check on this
Nah that is Cha stat.
There's a 6th regular polychoron (4-polytope), though, which doesn't have a 3D analogue.
The list is as follows
5-cell or simplex (analogue to tetrahedron, each edge is shared by three tetrahedrons)
8-cell or hypercube (analogue to cube, each edge shares 3 cubes)
16-cell (analogue to octahedron, each edge shares 4 tetrahedrons)
24-cell (no 3D analog! Each edge shares 3 octahedrons)
120-cell (analogue to dodecahedron, each edge shares 3 dodecahedrons. This is the one in the video)
600-cell (analogue to icosohedron, each edge shares 5 tetrahedrons)
Incidentally, Zometools are capable of modeling every single one of these, although the 5-cell, 16-cell and 24-cell require kits with the green struts. The 120-cell actually requires the most pieces. Figuring out how to make each one is actually surprisingly intuitive.
@@Keldor314Does the 24-cell have an official name or is it stuck with "24-cell"?
@@TheSilverShadow17 There are a few names.
One is "icositetrachoron", where -choron is the 4D analog to -hedron, and icositetra is Greek I believe for 24.
There's also "polyoctahedron".
Though my favorite is probably "octaplex". This one also has nice similar names for all the other regular polytopes.
5-cell: Simplex
8-cell: Hexaplex (or so I would assume)
16-cell: Orthoplex
24-cell: Octoplex
120-cell: Dodecaplex
600-cell: Tetraplex
So, Adam - when are you adding the LED strips and mirrored foil to this one to make it a lamp?
25.20 is such a satisfying image to look at. The way the it has been placed is like looking through a tunnel! So much going on in there.
Elizabeth D. Zwicky introduced me to Zome Tool circa 1995/1996, when we were working together at SGI. Over the years, I’ve built a number of things like this (though never this exact configuration), and hung them up in various offices... fond memories, all around. It’s fun to see you sharing some of the same excitements she shared with me... tessellations, truncations, symmetries, etc. If you indeed go get some more, be sure to check out the (then-still-in-R&D-phase - Elizabeth told me they were meant to exist, but Zome hadn’t released them yet) green struts. :)
My school lab in Brazil had one kit of it brought from the US and it was by far my Chemistry teacher's most prized possession. It was the best way to show how atoms come together.
This is extra nice because he looked like Adam.
You could have shown Kevin's instructions when you were done.
It's not cheating, when you are done already. It helps to reflect on alternative paths.
Nothing better than watching Adam Savage and getting both Buckminster Fuller and Archimedean solids references. It entertaining and educational!
This looks both fun and also maddening at the same time
I used to build with Zoob's all the time! I remember making Zoob launchers that would fire a Zoob at an unexpecting parent or friend. Great memories, and better ones now knowing Adam had a hand in designing them.
Did anyone else realize the huge uptick in compression artifacts in the video, every time Adam started spinning the Hyper Dodecahedron? It breaks the algorithm! 🤣👏
Could you translate that english for us non-geeks? It sounds very interesting...
@@wildflower1397 I can try. video compression works by predicting a load of factors like movement. sudden stopping and starting causes glitches in its prediction when certain pieces line up for a moment they are a stationary orb not just moving masses at least to the camera...there is a tom scott video on frame rate that is pertinent as well. cumputerphile has one on compression that would be a good watch to.
@@caminoprojectUS Wow, that is so interesting. Thanks!
Ten some odd years ago, I was asked to help construct a large ZOME sphere for for NY Toy Fair. I was brought in because they couldn’t figure out how to build it without the structure collapsing in on itself. I pulled from my knowledge of art/architecture history and built it like a classical dome would’ve been built by connecting it at two points and were able to build a solid sphere that stood over 7’ tall that a grown man could walk into. Fun experience and great toy.
While in college, we would build platonic and archimedian solids using pieces of plastic straw and contact cement. After cutting the straws to a certain length, we'd dip the ends of them into the contact cement, let them dry for 15 minutes and then quickly assemble the solids. That was 25 years ago and I still remember doing it. It was a lot of fun.
That is, until we had to build tensegrities around them... That was a bit of a headache. But hey, that would be something cool for Adam to do too.
I love polyhedrea too, Adam. Ii can appreciate your love of them.
You could get MORE of them and make the next size larger ....
Just like Triibbles, the polyhedrea will now multiply in Adam's Cave.
And oh yes. Gesundheit.
I must have this kit. It took a bit of searching, Amazon not in stock, Zoomtool, not in stock. I FOUND ONE!
I will get mine April 28th. About halfway through your build I was getting so excited to build one. I waiting until your video ended though, got to mind the algorithms. Thank you for my future excitement ❣️
You are a global treasure of a man. Almost like a remade david attenborough.. please never stop
Those photos at the start were strangely satisfying, I remember you mentioning that office back in the infinite Rhombic Dodecahedron video.
As a tabletop rpg nerd, I don't know all the proper names but I recognize all the platonic solids as d4, d6, d8, d12, and d20 😂
Mood! 😂
I had a similar kit as a kid in the 80s called Ramagon! Hours of building and enjoyment!
I think one of the greatest moments for creators was when James May built an entire house out of lego
I know of Bucky Fuller because in photography school back in 1996 one of our first Photoshop assignments was colorizing a B&W photo of him.
On Star Trek: Enterprise, the Suliban used this style of building for their ships...
Sad they never made any more Star Trek after that show...
@@JD2jr. Dude. Just don’t. not here
It's also vaguely reminiscent of the Fesarius...Vaguely.
Way to be Adam! I bought a kit in about "95 here in Boulder Colorado area for my son. Thanks for sharing the only you do!
I was thinking I want to give that thing a hug literally a second before 30:30
It just makes me happy to see Adam so happy
B. Fuller's -Critical Path- was eye opening for me. After 37 years of working in manufacturing I've learned that no one in management has ever read this book.
Just got my kit last night. This was such a joy to build and I’m over the moon with the results. 😀👍😀👍
Adam, you and I are the same age within a couple weeks, and I was actually in the Bay Area instead of NY so it never would have happened, but if you'd been my science teacher my life and career would have likely been very different. Nevertheless, I'm glad I get to learn, and learn what I know without realizing it, by watching these videos now. Fantastic stuff.
4:42 Adam Savage is a magician.
a clumsy one at that, after he instantly flipped his script, he had to flip it manually again
@@Games_and_Music Adam Savage is a magician.
Making proper instructions without words is an art form, mixed with rocket science.
I LOVED Zoob as a kid. This is such a cool little tidbit to learn
That would make a great space station, with each cell being a different module and the thin small cells on the outside could be the protective shielding.
8:10 - Others might recognize him as the guy who taught kids how to do the Mario.
That was my thought as well. Good times.
"Juuust liike thaaaat...!"
Adam, if there was a Nobel Prize for services to the special affects industry, then you would surely have to be in the top 10 nominations! The best thing about you is how you use your depth of knowledge, skills and prolific achievements to inform and inspire others. I do miss Mythbusters but we are all more than compensated with your UA-cam content of pure and distilled Savage!
We are so fortunate to have Adam 😊
Wow, I used to have those things when I was a kid. I’d completely forgotten about them, but seeing the joints and struts brought back a rush of memory.
I built a Great Dodecahedron out of paper & glue when I was 11 yrs old. It was WAY COOL to an 11 yr old!
For those of us slightly younger than Adam, Lou Albano was also Mario in the live action segments for the Super Mario Super Show.
throw your hands from side to side...
Thank you guys for this awesome content! It's always fun to see Adam make something.
In a previous video Adam said something about making a bag out of the leather on his workbench, could Adam or someone make a high quality photo of it before it's cut to pieces? That way all of us Tested fans would have the possibility of having a great background image to put on out pc's / macs. Also, you could just make a frame for it and hang it on the wall because it's very artful.
This is a beautiful shape. I want one. My nephew and I could have so much fun building these together. I loved watching Adam geek out over the hidden geometry. I was geeking out just watching.
Yes beautiful sunshine,🌹 I’m James carderwood from Miami Florida USA 🇺🇸, how are you doing..?
I have accumulated a stack of plastic bowls leftover from microwave Udon kits that I use to separate small parts when I'm building stuff. It's a great way to recycle and reuse plastic and keeps things from rolling off the table. The ones I have are from the same company and are identically shaped so they fit and stack neatly together.
I played with Zoob in kindergarten! I couldn't have told you the name of it for the life of me, but I remembered as soon as you said it. So cool you were a part of that!
Yes beautiful sunshine,🌹 I’m James carderwood from Miami Florida USA 🇺🇸, how are you doing..?
Adam, I just bought your book “Every Tool’s A Hammer”. Thank you for this wonderful book. I plan to use the lessons in it to help me get some of my projects finished. Thanks for all of the great advice. I am definitely looking forward to finishing this book.
Until now I'd never realised how much Adam's light arms look like H.R. Geiger designed alien tentacles.
Oh my God, I loved ZOOB! We gave a huge set to my son in about 2000 or so, and he was constantly building amazing things out of it. So cool that you were head of R&D for a while there.
If Adam savage says it’s kind of confusing, I would be doomed to failure!!!
I'm going to have to get one of those myself.
On a side note: The singular 'they' is grammatically correct, easier to say than 'he or she', and you don't have to catch yourself while saying it
The zone of proximal development is the degree of difficulty that is just beyond the learner’s ability. There is discomfort experienced, but it is the kind that results in the greatest degree of learning. Sounds like a perfectly targeted design to me!
Also: gesundheit!
Itd be interesting to see a light shone through it and what shadows it produces.
Yesss!
This would be a great gift for a science teacher
Oh man, it may have only made it out to layer 4 of 9, but watching that still adds a lot of intuition to the 4-d shape. Once I understand where the 30 equatorial docecahedra fit in, the rest is just mirror symmetry
Always good to see that Zometool is still around; it's a good system for building and visualizing some 3D objects. We still have one of their free-form kits from the late 1990s.
I loved ZOOBs back when I was younger. I made a nearly life-size human at one point out of them. I wonder if I can find a picture of that...
25:19 The unintentional placement of the model to the camera was a surprise of alignment.
The second step is 12 dodecahedrons wrapped around a central dodecahedron, which was step one. Since they dont tile evenly in 3d, they had to be deformed to make them fit. Steps three and and four connects the outermost surfaces to form an outer geodesic sphere.
Who else is shocked that Adam didn’t knoll all those struts before starting? I was totally expecting to see that and was surprised when he just dove right in. Myself I would never knoll a Lego kit as we’ve seen him do several times, but that’s my personal taste because I love the “hunt” for the pieces. But this set, with so many similar but different pieces, I would just have to sort those.
The word Adam was looking for is all of the Platonic and all of the ("Archimedean") solids. The latter being one of the 13 solids first enumerated by Archimedes. They are the convex uniform polyhedra composed of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices, excluding the five Platonic solids and excluding the prisms and antiprisms.
I have an undying love for everything Bucky Fuller! I've done a few projects based on his discoveries/experiments.
Oh my god this is scratching some deep recess of my brain. I haven’t seen these toys in like 15 years
Last time I built a simple dodecahedron, was with 6 and 8 ft bamboo canes, with bolted hose-pipe joints. Tricky and the end result was huge. But easily carried by three people, once we had hard bound the joints with wire. Would be a lot easier with cable ties to hold the joints - or using joiners as in this kit.
But this was awesome!
It's the 4D equivalent to the dodecahedron. The 'hyper' equivalent to a flat polyhedral face is called a 4D 'cell'. The full object is exactly 120 dodecahedral cells all perfectly touching each other with 3 around every edge. All the cells here (aside from the central one) are squished by their projection into 3-space. That's also why many of the cells seem to have disappeared when more than one projects to exactly the same location. Even so, I think a few layers of cells were left out because they'd be unworkably flat. Just know that in the true 4D space they are all perfect dodecahedrons with no room to add any more.
I love how "Intense" is Adam's polite way of saying "Your directions aren't good"
Hope they don't miss that!
25:20 Soooo satisfying! That's all I needed, short of having it myself.
As soon as I saw that I went straight to the comments because I knew it would be appreciated by someone other than me
I am surprised and stunned that Adam didn't spend time knolling parts before he started the build.
What a wonderful kit! Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, et al,. are minor deities in my personal intellectual pantheon with Fuller occupying a hierarchal position slightly superior in the hyperdodecahedron of what passes for my inner landscape. A great episode on a consistently engaging Tested.Thank you!
Pretty surprised Adam didn't start by knolling the pieces. Very cool kit, gonna have to try it out!
I really hate math and calculation, I think because I never understood the language. But for some reason geometry, even on this level, makes total sense to me. This is beautiful!
Me too! I wonder if there is a name for being able to grasp three dimensional geometry in your head, even though you don't really get the math?
@@wildflower1397 Are you very creative as well? I think it's linked to creativity, as I also have a good understanding of music, drawing and design, which in many ways also rely on having a good understanding of geometry.
13:06- the most genuine Homer Simpson doh I ever heard a real human utter. Someone gif that.
5:02 Uh oh! Things that roll, things that roll !!!
Me: My workbench every single day
4:59 when a high level barbarian rolls damage on a crit
Understood.
Wish you had taken this outside and shown the shadows that you get from this shape. Beautiful build.
The Zometool node is actually based on the rhombicosidodecahedron with 12 pentagonal holes, 20 triangular holes, and 30 rectangular holes.
Bless you!
love the way you teach science adam and captain lou also played mario in the super mario bros. super show back in the 80's
Gold standard for assembly instructions right now would definitely have to be bandai model kits imo! Even lego seems to be unclear on some piece placement sometimes.
What you mean by projections is probably duality. It is described by mapping all faces of one polyhedron onto the vertices of another (and vice versa). For example, if you make a vertex at the center of each face of a cube and connect the vertices, you end up with an octahedron. It works the other way around for these two as well (duality). The dodecahedron and icosahedron are duals, but the tetrahedron is self-dual.
The farm country rows thing was on my mind too. It's so pleasing.
Yes beautiful sunshine,🌹 I’m James carderwood from Miami Florida USA 🇺🇸, how are you doing..?
That thing is mental...
I love it
Oh my god, Zoob! I played with those once as a kid somewhere, and could never remember what they were called! They had a big bin of them in a waiting room for kids at some place and I thought they were the coolest!
Damn your adjustable light sounds like me getting up lol
15:30 (I haven't finished the video at this point)
It might've been easier if you had looked at a point /\ on the original dodecahedron and attached to the 3 flat sides. (The ones you can't see the surface area of)
Then they would be easier to connect together since they're mostly (except for the front side) separated by a single space. So you can use the existing structure to support what you're adding.
The view looking into it, is amazing.
Adam would LOVE to build the Rokr Vitascope wooden kit. A real working movie projector complete with a strip of film. Turning the crank lights up an LED bulb from the electricity from a tiny generator.
Ok so im dumb..and watching this didnt help my already melting brain i could ot for the life of me understand half of the stuff you were explaining adam but its always fun to watch you build.
This makes me want to get my old Zometools out from a box in my closet that I've had for the past 18 years or so. I need to get rid of some of the rods since they're slightly broken. Also just thinking about this makes me want to order some more.
I love Buckminster Fuller. One of my greatest Idols ❤️