The Brothers Brick

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!

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