Pushing the limits of LEGO plates

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This build is the fourth in a series.
The first is a dodecahedron: • An unbelievable LEGO b...
The second is a rhombicuboctahedron: • LEGO plates must bend
The third is an icosahedron: • Bending LEGO plates to...
This build is a curved approximation of a rhombic triacontahedron: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic...
I think this my favorite of these kinds of spheres-it’s just an epic and amazing build that looks different from so many perspectives. And I could watch it spin forever.
You could also call this a LEGO d30, or my best attempt at a LEGO dyson sphere. : )
Diameter: 44cm (17.3in)
32 vertices and 60 edges
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Total pieces: 4080
Piece breakdown: 1x2 plates (3480), hinge plate 1x4 swivel (240), 2x2 corner plates (360)
#LEGO #brickbending #legoart #geometricart #asmr #sphere #triacontahedron #d30

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@ToadJimmy Месяц назад

It's... beautiful. 👁👄👁

@BrickBending Месяц назад

Thank you 🙏🏻🥰

@earlpettey 2 года назад

My favorite part of every video is watching you build a section of something, then sliding 10 more identical sections that were already completed into view.

@xenoswarrior6900 Год назад

"And once you've done that complex step-by-step thing once you can just reach into the shadow realm and make 16 more appear out of fucking thin air! Works every time!"

@saberleaf3659 Год назад

Once he's built one he learns the crafting recipe.. and therefore auto crafts them...

@foxyloxymoxy6376 Год назад

Dude found the Lego duplication glitch

@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj 6 месяцев назад

@@saberleaf3659Maybe you could use it to auto craft the universe itself with Lego…

@drainhead2778 3 месяца назад

so i've done some off camera building-

@SouthernersSax Год назад

I kept telling myself "I feel like I'm witnessing some kind of forbidden LEGO building technique" after I saw the model start to take on a curvature. Once it was finished, I half-expected it to shudder, hover a foot off of the table, and start humming and rotating on all axes with ever-increasing speed while glowing ever-brighter and telepathically bestowing arcane knowledge in some long-forgotten language.

@Stuffies2022 Год назад

Bro is a wordsmith!

@scarygreenmonster4130 Год назад

Eminem?

@kappnthecapytan Год назад

😂😂😂

@Akumatron Год назад

The Augur of Dunlain comes to mind

@bear7449 Год назад

i want the forbidden lego knowledge. Maybe it gives the receiver the ability to conjure legos from thin air and form them with their mind?

@zanmolecules4105 Год назад

At the start, I wondered “how is he pushing these to their limits? And why is he making so many?” When I saw him connect the first part of the sphere, flip it over, and start to bow up, my jaw dropped

@MrMikellsof88 Год назад

Had the same reactions. I was like "this isn't pushing any limits" and I was about to click to a new video when he flipped it and we saw the bend. Then I was like "Impressive. MOST Impressive."

@40Kfrog 2 месяца назад

Putting the little LEGO caveman next to this thing gives me a very "BE NOT AFRAID" vibe

@TimothyIsom Месяц назад

Biblically accurate LEGO

@Polymerata 12 дней назад

As long as your a master builder you can only comprehend it's design but not it's idea

@michealthekaminoshinagami54 2 года назад

It's always both incredibly fun, and soul crushingly terrifying hearing those poor brick groan in tortured agony. Like, I know this shall lead to amazing things, but damn if I don't empathize with tiny plastic bricks

@BrickBending 2 года назад

They could be cheering in LEGO speak. We'll never know. : )

@lechatrelou6393 2 года назад

@@BrickBending nah, only psychopath would think this.

@Tyfu39944 2 года назад

Pretty sure there’s some illegal techniques in use here

@michealthekaminoshinagami54 2 года назад

@@Tyfu39944 only pretty sure? I'm damn near absolutely sure every single connection in this build is illegal

@Ghost11010 2 года назад

Oh I definitely heard those cries of agony. A wonderous structure, but at what cost?

@bobbiscub 2 года назад

At so many points I thought the whole thing was going to pop under all that tension. Amazing job dude.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

Many thanks! Once that final connection is made all that stress starts to fully balance. It's energy in equilibrium.

@bobbiscub 2 года назад

@@BrickBending That is awesome! I'm so glad I found this channel! Keep up the great work!

@asecrettoevery1248 2 года назад

@@BrickBending have you ever had one bust under all that tension?

@ttry1152 Год назад

Yeahhh. My lego expirements have ended up with. Less favorable rezults

@Therevengeforget Год назад

@@BrickBending what if you start rolling it fast?

@k0let078 Год назад

I like how you fulfill everyone's deep desire to see it spin every time you add layers to it

@relentlesskev90 Год назад

The most cathartic yet torturous video I have ever seen.. first video of yours I've watched- popped up in my recommendations. Loved the end result and the little blooper with the glove.. freaking awesome.

@marshallchaney8845 2 года назад

My favorite part of this video is how the first thing you do is take a bunch of hinges--pieces that are actually meant to bend--and lock them into a triangle so they can't move.

@Levi_The_One_The_Only 2 года назад

This almost seems like one where you'd need to wear safety goggles while building haha

@ARM0RP0WER 2 года назад

im pretty sure thats a good idea in general if your trying to bend things that really dont want to bend

@Jordanninja09 2 года назад

The tension in that thing…

@MilTheBee 2 года назад

Oh god what would happen if he dropped it. would it explode or just be regular?

@quentonparsons41 Год назад

That'd b a good idea parts are gonna go flying eventually when you break physics and open a black hole

@travisreid9530 8 месяцев назад

Safety squints for Lego, love to see it!

@geoschmo 7 месяцев назад

How is it that watching him put these together is so relaxing and totally stress inducing at the same time?

@insertgenericusernamehere2402 2 года назад

I don't know if you can sell kits because lego is already a licensed product but I'd love to build one of the sets you do. I just don't have any of the pieces nor the know how of where to get them.

@S.G.Wallner 2 года назад

Maybe you could purchase instructions and piece counts from him. Then you could get the pieces on your own and do the build. You could even choose your own colors.

@mysteriumxarxes3990 2 года назад

@@jellysquid8077 he teaches how to do it on every video for free. No need to sell them

@animeguygaming4803 2 года назад

@@mysteriumxarxes3990 he doesn’t show it very well I prefer if I had proper instructions

@PR.Impreza 2 года назад

It’d be cool to be a licensed set too. But “breaks the rules” of a real set

@infernotitan1158 2 года назад

There at least used to be a site you could make your own kits and sell them. Don't remember what it was called though

@carlpeberdy9086 2 года назад

Another great design - there's something very satisfying about the triangle and pentagonal shaped holes in the middle of the hinged pieces.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

I agree. What started as a design flaw quickly became a feature.

@noyou1735 2 года назад

100th like!

@brandondriver99 Год назад

Technically they're hexagonal a decagonal

@Gravvvyyy Год назад

@@brandondriver99 technically you're decagonal.

@mitchellclark4377 7 месяцев назад

This is simply stunning. I love how in the late stages, while a layer is in progress, the struts get all twisted, but once the layer is complete, all the forces balance out to form the perfect shape (including pulling the 5-way joints into perfect pentagons).

@DanielRossellSolanes 7 месяцев назад

sorry to say but there are no pentagons here. only thirty rhombus with the diagonal sizes of each in a ratio of phi. in other words. the structure is a rhombic triacontahedron made with curved edges.

@mitchellclark4377 7 месяцев назад

Where five struts meet at a 'vertex', the green hinged plates form pentagons. I know what I'm talking about.

@DanielRossellSolanes 7 месяцев назад

@@mitchellclark4377 suit yourself. I'm not going to try to change your belief.

@mitchellclark4377 7 месяцев назад

You are completely correct about the geometric properties of the whole object. But you're missing the trees for the forest, so to speak, when you ignore the fact that the 'edges' aren't one-dimensional lines. Where the edges meet, there are pentagonal holes. Go to 9:34 in the video and tell me there isn't a pentagonal hole there.

@mitchellclark4377 7 месяцев назад

The thing is, none of our beliefs need changing, because we're both right - you about the macro geometric properties of the overall object; me about the presence of small pentagons (and equilateral triangles, it must also be said) emerging as a consequence of the building method. We were looking at different aspects of the object. I just don't think you realised I was looking at the negative space.

@dhruvgulati2695 Год назад

This is quite possibly the most intense Lego build I’ve witnessed. Fantastic job creator 🤙🏻

@hikari_manekineko 2 года назад

When you started multiplying the components needed for this build, it reminded me of Star Wars dreadnoughts appearing out of hyperspace... and they ended up building a Death Star. ;)

@BrickBending 2 года назад

I love that analogy!

@sventhiede6505 2 года назад

That thing kept getting bigger and bigger, I wouldn't be surprised if one day you'll figure out a way to make a built that you can actually stand inside fully. That would be awesome to see.

@johngrasso6224 2 года назад

nah, life sized caveman inside.

@lomicwind 2 года назад

One day there will be a Dyson sphere made of Lego, and we know who to thank already ^_^

@BrickBending 2 года назад

You have pegged my dream!

@pauldeddens5349 2 года назад

@@BrickBending Maybe if you used Duplo it would become a reality. But the thought of you torturing Duplo plates into an enormous human-sized hamster ball is very amusing.

@jamesvertrees5857 2 года назад

James May, a British TV host, did a build a full size LEGO house. It was eventually torn down but it did exist for a few years.

@sebsplatter914 Год назад

Not generally into Lego, but this is video as a whole is an amazing piece of art. The progressive geometry, color scheme and ingenious technical design of the structure, but also the video editing, pacing and sound recording. Everything was fucking perfect, even the switch to a playful tone in the end! I was genuinely glued to the screen!

@cgibbard 2 года назад

As soon as I saw the twenty triangular figures, I knew roughly where this would be going (well, I expected it would have icosahedral symmetry), and was excited to see it come together. Love the rhombic triacontahedron! Really awesome build.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

Cheers!

@NotMrTaco53 Год назад

Let me guess, you’re a geometry major

@cgibbard Год назад

@@NotMrTaco53 I did a BMath in pure mathematics, and have done a bunch of geometric sculptures built from magnets in the past, so I'm fairly familiar with the process of repetitively building faces or vertex figures and snapping them together afterward. :)

@ElieVerbrugge Год назад

At first i thought it would become a truncated icosahedron until he made those 5-stars. Nice build, how many prototypes failed before this one?

@Samusin. Год назад

glad i wasnt the only one who spotted where it was going early^^ gotta love icosahedral symmetry

@vickypedias 2 года назад

that's literally one of the most aesthetically pleasing things i've ever seen. art, geometry, engineering, architecture all come together for an unbelievable blast of creative beauty

@lightthroughdark 7 месяцев назад

This man has a degree in Quantum Legology.

@tommytoons2730 Год назад

I’m always devastated by these videos… but I think I’m starting to enjoy them…

@SamEy3Am 2 года назад

These videos are both the absolute best LEGO, and ASMR videos on all of RU-vid.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

Very kind words. Thank you.

@YoloYester94 2 года назад

This guy is not just breaking limits, he’s blowing minds.

@Ar-T-Hur_- 2 года назад

I bet you mean it!

@JohnMarstonfromRdr2 2 года назад

No wonder I got a b in math because how am I supposed to write my exam with a blown mind???

@Ar-T-Hur_- 2 года назад

@@JohnMarstonfromRdr2 Precisely

@BenjayTay 2 года назад

Rather bending limits...? ;)

@watchawk7374 Год назад

Breaking minds and blowing limits

@dmanbloom2107 Год назад

bro wakes up in the morning like “i know what i’m gonna build today” and it’s always fire

@o_tristesse 3 дня назад

there's a job at lego headquarters where you sit in a room and find every possible way two parts go together.

@Skitad 2 года назад

What is cool is that you actually found a way to curve the assembly thanks to the play between the bricks and not by bending them. The construction is incredibly nice and well designed. I really feel like looking at art.

@DFX2KX 2 года назад

I know it's well within mechanical tolerances, and that those tolerances are in fact what makes this possible (hence lots of small pieces) but man the sounds make me shutter. Also, this thing looks like it'd have a rapid unscedualed disassembly if you even looked at it sideways, but it's pretty!

@jir3965 Год назад

The new Lego Death Star V3 is looking sick🙌🏻

@TheQuiQuestion Год назад

I like the way there's no background music... just the sound of clicking and creaking.

@docbones213 2 года назад

Holy shit. How does THAT rate on the tension scale? This may be my favorite one yet.

@brianwood1832 2 года назад

This man is a Lego god. That’s all there is to it. One of my favorite builds I’ve seen you do. Thank you

@guystreamsstuff7841 2 года назад

You mean, a Legod? :^)

@brianwood1832 2 года назад

@@guystreamsstuff7841 very upset that I didn’t think of that. But yes. I’d have to agree.

@apat5354 2 года назад

@@guystreamsstuff7841 do you say Le God 〰️👌

@St0rmGuy Год назад

@@brianwood1832 I guess you could also call him "Master of Brick Bending"

@noe2212 Год назад

When he finishes the ball and starts slowly turning it, I think it looks really cool how the light reflecting off the Legos tap in and out

@peterkaplar1660 Год назад

Those 5-legged thingies genuinely reminded me of those parts they were building in Star Wars: Andor. :D The final result confirmed my feelings, it really looks like an arthouse Death Star. :D Fantastic!

@doodles990 2 года назад

A spherical rhombic triacontahedron! What a beautiful shape! And very clever engineering on those 5-way joins; the hinges are loose and flexible to make connections easier, but as the shape builds those hinges are pulled tight by the tension to form perfect pentagons at each intersection!

@dell2013 2 года назад

You lost me there

@DGEddieDGEtm 2 года назад

I thought this was a rhombic icosahedron but I yield to your higher understanding of mathematics :3

@fluffypuffyboy586 2 года назад

its called a ball not a RHOMBIC TRIACONDANADSFKSGJSDOGHAÜSD

@WEENUS157 2 года назад

Just say ball my guy, not that hard

@LexLoTUStheGawd 2 года назад

@@WEENUS157 I mean you could say I drive a ferrari, or you could say oh I drive a fast car. Which sounds better?

@presidentedits193 2 года назад

he isn't a air-bender or water-bender but a lego-bender

@LimpBreadstick 2 года назад

Dare I say... a brick bender :)

@mdoerkse 2 года назад

Literally

@christiankirby8092 2 года назад

@@LimpBreadstick i dare him to one day literally bend a brick. like a brick that is used in construction. this will be the peak of his channel.

@joshuabrown6850 6 месяцев назад

I love the “look at this cool contraption I made” plays around with it for a couple seconds “here are 36 more”

@user-id8bt9yp2f 3 месяца назад

There is an unfathomable amount of tension on those Lego pieces

@ian-df6dc 2 года назад

I can't believe that Lego can resist vertical tension. I think that's why this sphere is so big.

@orutakawatenga8820 2 года назад

I can already see your storage space being essentially filled with filing cabinets with each drawer being crammed full of 1 type of piece.

@larsgrass1899 Год назад

My father already has this, his Lego collection is massive.

@Thompara Год назад

This needs to be put into a museum or something honestly, you’ve earned yourself a sub mate.

@Twice_Sucks Год назад

The patience this man has for building things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and…

@nerdiconium1365 2 года назад

As a fan of this kind of stuff, I find your taste in geometry beautiful and well informed.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

Cheers!

@mareky1234 2 года назад

If could use only one word to describe this, if would be EPIC. But it deserves more. It reminds me of a BORG sphere. Well done

@DarioCastellarin Год назад

I love how you create tension and compression layers to withstand the torsion, you basically replicated composite materials.

@angelica9799 Год назад

If Legos could withstand that kind of heat, a design like this would make a cool lamp.

@S.G.Wallner 2 года назад

The possibilities for different 3D geometries are endless. Amazing build, thanks for sharing.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

I'm looking forward to exploring as many of those possibilities as I can. It's my passion.

@Turalcar Год назад

Well, if you're just lookigng at Platonic, Archimedean, and Catalan solids there's at least 31

@polychoron 2 года назад

I love those green pieces, such a graceful joint!

@ndej126 Год назад

Doing this with 2x1s with handles and horizontal clips would be awesome. Making plates to cover the holes and make a "perfect" sphere 👀

@robertcarlsson1781 Год назад

The final achievement of humanity is a dyson-sphere made of Lego. This is a good start.

@jeffreysmith662 Год назад

As a lego maniac for over 55 years you do some pretty cool stuff.

@ahchiu9 2 года назад

Oh man. I love seeing an actual hinge piece on your channel because I know we're going to see some crazy shit. Was not disappointed!

@rjds1800 Год назад

Absolutely beautiful was relaxing just watching it go together.

@bioberserkrgaming Год назад

You can tell how much tension the bricks are under just by how they creak when they are barely grazed

@staxlhax1849 2 года назад

I love all your mad creations but your spheres, they hold an extra special place is my heart.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

For you and me both. : )

@liambohl 2 года назад

That's a rhombic triacontahedron! Nice!

@SolMasterzzz 2 года назад

Yup! Also known as a D30.

@matthewbertrand4139 2 года назад

@@SolMasterzzz bro i need to get the larger dice that are available. i know that you can get d24, d30, d60, d100, and d120. if you know of any others tell me dude

@ItzLarry_ Год назад

your a literal genius! this is so cool, I love the fact that it looks like if you take one brick off the whole thing will explode XD and not to mention how satisfying it is watching you build it! it is giving me ASMR hearing the bricks being put together!

@andrewrollinson7739 Год назад

I love the out-take right at the end. Human after all!

@itsfonk 2 года назад

I’ve enjoyed watching you create shapes and ornaments, though this episode sealed the deal. You are creating the fundamental constituents for when our orbital civilization inhabits printed modular structures in the void.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

I agree. We need to get Elon on this. 😂

@Digyman789 2 года назад

Very interesting lego design. Thought the legos would snap, because there was a lot of that stretching noise. Must have taken a lot of planning and time. Thank you for sharing your creation!

@squareboi1196 Год назад

14:51 i like watching the individual bricks get lit.

@WarthogEnjoyer3784 Год назад

I would love to see this guys gallery of past builds.

@weevilinabox 2 года назад

The outtake: I watch every video wondering how you assemble without this happening. Now the truth comes out. 😄

@BrickBending 2 года назад

I get caught on occasion, but this one was next level. Had to share it. 🤣

@pvdaele 2 года назад

I love that cracking sound as you bring the joints together. It's exiting and beautiful like walking on fresh snow.

@templarunite Год назад

THIS MAN IS GOING TO BREAK THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM IF HE KEEPS THIS UP

@liquidog Год назад

Each time I hear the sound of plastic bricks creaking I can physically feel my soul descending into another circle of hell

@arandomprotogen.7582 2 года назад

This man's breaking the laws of lego with his amazing builds

@TheLostArchangel666 2 года назад

Literally lol. This /is/ an "illegal" build

@rocky_theprotogen Год назад

@arandomprotogen.7582 Год назад

@@rocky_theprotogen Wassup

@BodeZerbeGolf8 Год назад

Amazing 🤩. I love how you used 4 different Lego pieces and make it.

@ImFrantic Год назад

Bored me just went to the YT starting page, found this Video and went for the childhood flashback. So nostalgic ^^ feels like the good old days

@mariosilva5375 Год назад

the way you begin to add the same piece patterns as new small templates like in 2:07 always reminds me of fractals

@cactusguy4363 2 года назад

Every time you cut from an army of built pieces to a handful of legos , I get anxious. I think, "Oh, God, what's next? What fresh horrors am I about to behold?" Love the content :D

@kingkolunikus1962 Год назад

You, sir, are a complete madman, and I salute you for it.

@Iceyia 7 дней назад

The voices of thousands of black 2x1 plates screaming in pain

@jazzie-noodle 2 года назад

All you need to do now is connect all the sides and make a planet LOL

@Slavador2393 2 года назад

Most impressive Jeff, this is brick bending at its finest 👏. I'd dare to say a masterpiece, building spheres out of inherently pieces that are straight and not meant to be used like this is a feat of brilliance that I aspire to create. You are an inspiration and I'm glad I found your channel. Thanks man.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

You are so welcome. I'm glad you share in my love for this. I build these because they need to exist!

@ambrosianapier7545 Год назад

I love how you build it up with increasingly complex repetitive sub units, like a 3 dimensional fractal unfolding before us.

@Adamgamer42069 Месяц назад

Every second i feel like its gonna break im frickin panicing expecting it to break

@j.v.9936 2 года назад

that‘s pretty awesome. this is something i want to have to put it in a shelf and look at it all the time. Also I am thinking about those lego builders that have rules and legal and illegal construction methods, depending on how much they stress the pieces… :D

@RolandTFlakfizer 2 года назад

With 3-point and 5-point vertices I was expecting a 'bucky ball' but this is _so_ much better.

@DawnDavidson 2 года назад

Exactly where my mind went: “is he building a Bucky Ball??” This was very cool.

@lutherray7016 Год назад

Watching this was more stressful than highschool, I could feel the tension in the legos and I was waiting for something to snap

@cooperanderson107 6 месяцев назад

The narration is on point in this video

@hondaguy9153 2 года назад

This is insane. I'd be scared it would just burst apart if someone touched it wrong. 😅

@IceBrys Год назад

These are always so impressive to me, fantastic work. However I must ask, where did you buy your lego copy-paster? I've been wanting to get into these builds but it takes me upwards of 10+ hours for what appears to be 3 seconds of ctrl+c -> ctrl+v. An Amazon link would be much appreciated 🙏

@ValkenLee Год назад

Rhombic triacontahedron. Beautiful!

@cookies23z Месяц назад

ah, now I know how to construct the frame of a dyson sphere, thanks brick bending :)

@JohnDoe-bt9qp Год назад

How to build a Hydrogen Bomb*

@s888r 2 года назад

I was afraid one of those pieces would give up when that small plate fell off (don't know if it got ejected)😨. So traumatic if one of them did, exploding into the whole room.

@BrickBending 2 года назад

Those little pieces are insanely tough. They can handle much more than this.

@LukeM410 Год назад

You are an absolutely, wonderfully insane brick builder and I love you for it! 😆

@yeetuszilla1663 3 месяца назад

Seeing how much stress the pieces are enduring, I feel dropping this would be a glass grenade.

@Ricardo0139 2 года назад

finally early for once

@andreyandrosov9847 9 месяцев назад

The best LEGO channel I had seen in my life

@andreyandrosov9847 9 месяцев назад

Beaucuse this is incredible

@andreyandrosov9847 9 месяцев назад

Maybe someone knows physics very well

@landonmeyer5562 Год назад

i would never think i would finf the day when i see a lego ball with plates

@legs-mo8mr Год назад

This has got to be the coolest way to use lego but clearly it took days to put all this together

@Kesvalk 15 дней назад

I think this is the first time i ever heard lego pieces scream.

@bluespectralmonkey Год назад

this is an impressive rhombic triacontrahedron my man !

@TheJanstyler Год назад

Everything in this video is amazing, but to me personally the coolest part is the design of the all black connector parts. The way they are designed to be able to bend in every direction is so damn clever.