A ball that inverts and changes color when it is midair, and the scientific literature that explains it

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/02/dual-polyhedron.html

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[sarc]

helps if you can juggle to minds of a lesser god

[beep54orama]

physics is phun!

[pasmith984]

ALWAYS BLUE! ALWAYS BLUE! ALWAYS BLUE!

[tubacat]

MATH!
(Ok some physics but I’m only adding that because BB won’t accept my perfectly good sentence made up of mostly symbols)

[LutherBlisset]

I was inclined to post jesse.gif, but I go for fuckyeahtopology!

[LemoUtan]

@tubacat

BB won’t accept my perfectly good sentence made up of mostly symbols

How’d’you expect an automaton to treat bags of mostly water?

[Papasan]

instantiates a dual polyhedron

Good line for a song.

[Auld_Lang_Syne]

And that gives me an excuse to post this:

[angusm]

The designer of the toy, Chuck Hoberman, also does much larger ‘transformable design’ projects, such as the ‘Expanding Video Screen’ used in a recent U2 tour, plus other bits of mind-bending shape-changing architecture.

[beep54orama]

I knew I should have added, “but math rules!!”