How to make a Buckminsterfullerene (and other fun shapes) from LEGO

It all started with a man named Bucky. Well, maybe Bram. Okay, possibly Jon. Whatever. The latest building trend seems to be buckyballs, icosahedrons, dodecahedrons, rhombicosidodecahedrons, and ‘hedrons of all sorts. I’m going to call the trend Hedronism.

Here’s Bram Lambrecht‘s original (virtual) design, alongside the first one built from “real” LEGO, by Kevin Heckel:

Adrian Drake gave it a try, and Ley Ward tried a different design:

Finally, my favorite of the bunch, another buckyball by Ley:

Long live Hedronism!

2 comments on “How to make a Buckminsterfullerene (and other fun shapes) from LEGO”

  1. wusmand

    have you attemped to see if you can make any flexible balls, like the ones that are big and can be compacted into little balls?

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