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Looks good. If you are going to build another one you could get rid of the white pieces and instead laser cut and build a clear plexi dodecahedron to house the object.
Having a few glasses of Aussie wine whilst watching a maths genius and a model maker extraordinaire construct one of the most complicated objects with just tube and string was probably one of my dumbest ideas so far- my brain is fried....
Please accept me by watching my difficult invention because it will amaze you. I am following you from the Kingdom of Morocco. Greetings to you, Sir Adam
Genuinely I have actually done this and we keep them to this day lol. It's really funny to watch them go from scratch without the origami step first since that process really lets you see how it is constructed. By far the easiest method is to make 2 inverted tetrahedra first and then weave the other 3 around them rather than place adjacent ones one at a time.
I absolutely love that Matt goes out of his way to say "math" when talking to Adam and Adam says "maths" when talking to Matt. Such a tiny thoughtful detail from both men, adorable
17:10 Matt also said "sprinkles" instead of the common British "hundreds and thousands" - there's a few of these idiom pleasantries sprinkled (pun intended) everywhere, and it's wholesome as f...
But it doesn't matter what the units are, you only need the proportions. And being in thousandths of an inch makes that much easier than using the more common 32nds of an inch.
My interpretation of that is that Matt is just not used to reading dial calipers. I've seen a lot of beginners mess up calipers and not realize that you need to read both the number on the stick and the number on the dial. Once you understand how to use them it's easy, but they're not intutive to newbies.
I don't watch every Adam Savage video, I don't watch every Matt Parker video, but I never miss a Matt Parker and Adam Savage video, they're brilliant together.
I don't watch every Adam Savage video, I do watch every Matt Parker video, but I watch every Matt Parker and Adam Savage video multiple times, they're brilliant together.
I do watch every Adam Savage video, I do watch every Matt Parker video, and I watch every Matt Parker and Adam Savage video innumerable times, they're brilliant together.
Adam and Matt have such a positive, compounding way in which they speak. It is marvelous how much these two are able to convey information to us the audiences. Their ability to teach whilst not over speaking each other is astonishing, and I would love to see them teach topics together if that was at all possible.
*GASP* I love this shape! I remember the first time I tried to make the origami version, I couldn't wrap my head around it for like two days until it literally came to me in a dream. I woke up and retried the assembly, and it worked! 😂 Fun fact - you can actually make the five intersecting tetrahedra out of crisp $1 bills. Makes a really fun desk ornament, about the size of a volleyball.
I've done this! Surprisingly difficult not from needing crisp bills, but you need to ever so slightly fold the bills to render them into a 1:3 ratio before starting the "normal" folds
I am ashamed to say I actually figured it out fairly quickly once the rule of how they fit together sunk in. One corner of one tetrahedron fits through the opening of another and vice versa. They all follow this rule. It's much easier to visualize with just two, but the principle carries over into the full 5 as well. Any tetrahedron follows this rule with each other tetrahedron in the object. Really elegant and really fun to look at.
@@zadrik1337 yeah when adam started measuring the origami in inches I winced. He absolutely has metric calipers in his shop as well, which just makes scaling so much easier.
@@baxterwilliams2170 was very impressed. I have lived in the UK and Australia for almost two decades and still can't make the word "maths" come out of my mouth naturally, and even if I get it right I use all my mental energy getting my mouth and tongue to produce the word that I end up stumbling on a word later on in the sentence.
its actually what I tried to teach my nephews, while their grandma tried to make them memorize everything, I tried to put in their head that you can't memorize everything and learning other people's shortcut won't help as much as you think. the best way to learn math is just to do it, you will memorize things and learn your own tricks and shortcuts, and if you keep doing it your brain will create its own pathways to solve problems.
That's why I gave up on the quadratic formula entirely. I just complete the square every single time. I can do half of it in my head and it's probably faster than most people doing quadratic formula anyway. I also derive the equation for percentages every single time by mapping ratios for the same reason
@@danilooliveira6580 I think other people's shortcuts can be helpful but only if they're given/taken with that understanding they won't always be. I started struggling in Math because I learned a lot of early principles on my own, that's great when you can fully work backwards but left me lacking a lot of foundations when things like transformations go from helpful simplifying to necessary steps.
The energy that Adam brings to this project couples so well with Matt's. Adam running around grabbing things, while Matt thinks about how to figure out the right model scale is delightful.
I’m a simple man, I see a Matt Parker video and my brain starts to use synapses that I haven’t used in 30 years and I have to lie down in a dark room for a while….
At 9:43 Adam shows the pure joy in the vindication of being The Guy who keeps every little thing he might possibly need in storage somewhere, just in case he might need it later.
Watching you two nerd out together is fantastic. You're not even trying to be presenters anymore, you're just absorbed in the project and it's awesome.
Zoobs! I am so happy to have this connection to Adam. We love zoobs, my son is autistic and adores zoobs, I literally bought every set, he has giant bins full of them. He builds with them every day.
Whoa! The synergy between you two is amazing! Two such fantastic analytical minds working together a joy to behold! Thanks for tackling this wonderful conundrum together!
I'm a handyman so I utterly enjoy watching Adam and seeing his brain work. Watching a mathematician like Matt work things out is equally impressive if not more. So enjoyed this collab
I built one of the origami ones over a decade ago, and seeing both Matt and Adam wrap their brains around the weaving part was a bit of a treat. I had the origami instructions to follow and it was still a bit of a challenge, especially because the weaving step had no increased detail of how that step worked.
You two are my favorite geeks on the internet and it makes me so happy to watch you both work and then revel in the fact that we humans are lucky enough to get high from insight.
11:04 I love this moment because my brain was going in the same direction as they were figuring it out I was nodding going yeah, yeah, exactly! having the same realisations Adam did, it's so much fun figuring stuff out like that.
As a beader and textile needle crafter I can with confidence say that I always calculate cording (or thread) on a project that is new to me thus: Cord length (including any double back for securing shape plus 30%-40%. Leave a fairly long tail at the beginning. Then trim and tie off or weave back in both ends. A lazy (or efficient) way to calculate is create the first simple repeating shape, take it apart and measure the cord used and multiply by how many repetitions.
very few things inspire me quite like getting to see Adam, Adam being absolutely thrilled by spatial planning, and color, and teamwork, and the thrill of executing a good plan in a day
How she built that incredible object out of paper, and it came out as a solid object that holds its shape is as incredible as the build depicted here. Incredible the talents that people have.
After all that, they agreed that it's just a matter of whether you skip to the left, or skip to the right. Wonderful stuff! Fascinating to watch not unfold.
The very moment they started trying to thread a second one through, realizing they may need to rethink how they string the tubes, I began to feel anxious and wondered whether it was time for lunch yet, even though I am watching this in the middle of the night.
This is my favourite combination. Someone intimately familiar with a thing on a theoretical level and Adam excitedly running around making it happen. That excitement is contagious. I want to make something now.
Watching these two together is always a pleasure! Bring in Destin from SmarterEveryDay and I think there would be so much enthusiasm for learning that it collapses into a singularity
i don't think i've seen a better example of two people with great chemistry together, i hope you guys do more stuff together you compliment each other perfectly
This reminds me of building the dodec pod for the movie Contact in the mid 90s in 3D using Alias software. There were no pre-shapes and I had to figure out how to construct it which was a real mind twister. So fun to see this process and how complicated they are finding it as well.
I haven't seen Matt before, but I've always considered Adam to be really smart and it warms my heart to see the both of them struggle to visualize, but keep trying until they succeed!
I'm so happy that Matt and Adam are still killing it on these fun builds. Both of these videos are delightful adventures in problem solving and I love it so much.
I have made the origami version with each tetrahedra made of 4 interwoven tetrahedra. It is spectacular, but it was so difficult to build. I followed the instructions from a book called mind blowing modular origami
Awesome build! Love these Matt Parker collabs, would love to see more. Stand up maths is one of those channels I watch everything he does, as even if I am not interested in the topic, the telling is always entertaining. You have that same skill Adam, in that I can watch you build things with tools I will never own and still enjoy the whole process.
I made this shape a couple of years ago, modeled it and printed it in clear uv resin. Every strut is identical, just enough tolerance for each tetrahedra to move a little when you handle it. One of the worst things i ever assembled, one of my favorite shelf things to this day.
Such a neat way of creating a model, using tubes and elastic cord! I noticed a slight mistake in Adam's model, if you look at 53:30, the red tetrahedra should pass through the face of the yellow. I absolutely love this shape and the origami version! I've never folded it as small as the one in this video, but have done it from $1 bills before. For those interested, the origami model was created by Tom Hull, using a unit created by the late Francis Ow. Tom uses 1:3 ratio paper to fold the units.
Yeah I noticed that from the other side at 53:11. Just one spot where a yellow and red should have been on the other sides of each other. You can see it again at 56:13 and Adam looks at that side at 56:20 and makes a face that makes me think he saw it. I bet he fixed it and just cut it out to keep the video under an hour. I didn't see any mistake's in Matt's.
RUclips gentlemen together are always gold. About halfway through the process I started a comment that had to do with taping them together for stability before you string them. Done within seconds you gentlemen started doing the same thing LOL
"The property of this shape is that when you look away, rotate it and look back it doesn't matter and you'll never find that specific vertex again (except if you use colors)" - then 36:08 😂
5:50 I love how he used a Ferrero Rocher container for save transport. I've always kept those, be it to use them as manual pads for my fingerboard as a kid or to store little pieces for current projects now.
ferrero rocher box. classic bits and bobs box. also I was thinking the dodecahedron edges should go smaller to 3 inches because their angles to each other don't extend their length as much as the angles between the tetrahedron edges. and your final results seem to biasly confirm that without substantiation.
Even though I could feel the mental pain of puzzling out how to assemble these works of art, I also desperately wanted to be there assembling one myself.
I had a building set that was made from tubes as s child, just like the ones you used for this build. They were smaller in size but linked together with bends and such
I love watching two insanely smart people bounce great ideas off of each other. I've been waiting so long for another vid with Matt Parker, so glad this is the result ❤❤❤
seeing this reminded me that I knew (I think I still can figure out from memory?) how to make a dodecahedron origami, more so...basically...the bounding box they mention?
So many little joys in this episode! I highly encourage everyone to try modelling such polyhedra in their own mediums using whatever method they find most pleasing. And discovering that method is always part of the fun. I once made them in Blender doing the maths to work out the position of vertices and building them point by point - very cool to see the same mind-bending construction and calculation (as well as familiar numbers) but represented in physical reality! I had the same wow moment when seeing the formulae that snap them all together. The maths is always challenging for me so it was nice to gain some kinship with these odd numbers! (and beautiful constructions).
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What should Adam and Matt (try to) build next?
Hello Adam. I am from Morocco and I have a complex invention that I have been trying to make for years. I want to send it to you via WhatsApp.
Looks good. If you are going to build another one you could get rid of the white pieces and instead laser cut and build a clear plexi dodecahedron to house the object.
Having a few glasses of Aussie wine whilst watching a maths genius and a model maker extraordinaire construct one of the most complicated objects with just tube and string was probably one of my dumbest ideas so far- my brain is fried....
@@mickeyfilmer5551
I have a video explaining my difficult invention, and I do not know any way to convey it to Mr. Adam
Please accept me by watching my difficult invention because it will amaze you. I am following you from the Kingdom of Morocco. Greetings to you, Sir Adam
Friendship bracelets are one thing but dang friendship compound polyhydra hits different
Ha!
I need someone to make friendship compound polyhedra with fr
Awesome comment!
Genuinely I have actually done this and we keep them to this day lol. It's really funny to watch them go from scratch without the origami step first since that process really lets you see how it is constructed. By far the easiest method is to make 2 inverted tetrahedra first and then weave the other 3 around them rather than place adjacent ones one at a time.
@@lsaria5998 awesome!
I absolutely love that Matt goes out of his way to say "math" when talking to Adam and Adam says "maths" when talking to Matt. Such a tiny thoughtful detail from both men, adorable
and the way Matt hands over the calipers when he realizes they are imperial.
I'm a US-to-UK transplant and I occasionally notice I've done this with someone and it always strikes me as a very wholesome moment.
17:10 Matt also said "sprinkles" instead of the common British "hundreds and thousands" - there's a few of these idiom pleasantries sprinkled (pun intended) everywhere, and it's wholesome as f...
I noticed that too, they were both so polite, but not in a formal way. Just a couple of respectful dudes.
@@Chiberia
Do you say Hundreds and Thousands in Britain, too? I thought that was just an Aussie thing.
"I think we accidentally found a way to make this harder than Origami", ah, you found the Parker Way
So, Parkerigami?
@@frankwales Parkergami is when you do the more complicated thing by only looking in a mirror. :P
To be fair, the parker way would have accidentally reused one of Adam's colors
The Parker Way + The Savage Method = Joy!.
31:18
I love that when you told Matt the calipers were in thousands of an inch he just admitted defeat and handed them back to you.
But it doesn't matter what the units are, you only need the proportions. And being in thousandths of an inch makes that much easier than using the more common 32nds of an inch.
Is it the thousands or the inches that got him?
@@stephenoconnor6180 Inches, I'm sure. Matt is not from USA, Liberia or Myanmar. Matt is from Australia, so grew up using metric measurements.
@@peter-d9f3lI think the more common measurement might be "metric" :)
My interpretation of that is that Matt is just not used to reading dial calipers. I've seen a lot of beginners mess up calipers and not realize that you need to read both the number on the stick and the number on the dial. Once you understand how to use them it's easy, but they're not intutive to newbies.
I don't watch every Adam Savage video, I don't watch every Matt Parker video, but I never miss a Matt Parker and Adam Savage video, they're brilliant together.
That is the correct answer.
I don't watch every Adam Savage video, I do watch every Matt Parker video, but I watch every Matt Parker and Adam Savage video multiple times, they're brilliant together.
I do watch every Adam Savage video, I do watch every Matt Parker video, and I watch every Matt Parker and Adam Savage video innumerable times, they're brilliant together.
just rich people stroking rich people, but I watch them too. but meh... my life is sad
The nerd-out and excitement in the first 10 minutes alone was more than enough to recharge me for the whole week.
I love Adam workign with other people for just that reason.
The Nerd is strong with this one.
Watching Adam geek out on something he loves is most of why I watch this channel.
It's shared passion through math.
Same for me! This was pure GOLDen ratio!
Next project please include also 'e' (maybe Pi was somewhere here already) :->
I love both these creators individually, but something truly magical happens every time they're together :D
Having Matt in the cave is always a joy. Truly.
It's very comforting watching Adam build something with someone else.
I love the bit with the calipers. Adam "uses gauge blocks for arts and crafts" Savage versus Matt "rounds to the nearest pi" Parker
Adam and Matt have such a positive, compounding way in which they speak. It is marvelous how much these two are able to convey information to us the audiences. Their ability to teach whilst not over speaking each other is astonishing, and I would love to see them teach topics together if that was at all possible.
Do I hear a request for another Brain Candy Live? I'd pay to see that!
It's Mathbusters!
I want Adam to try a maths video while Matt tries to build something by himself in the background
Oh wow I didn’t expect a build with some styrene tubes and elastic cords to be such a nail-biter!
Right?!
@@tested It was the Ciffhanger of Tested/Stand-up Maths.
Four years? How the time flies!
Also, have to love the beauty of a shop where you can go "wait, I have that!"
My brain hurt watching this.
Always good to see Matt and Adam together
*GASP* I love this shape! I remember the first time I tried to make the origami version, I couldn't wrap my head around it for like two days until it literally came to me in a dream. I woke up and retried the assembly, and it worked! 😂
Fun fact - you can actually make the five intersecting tetrahedra out of crisp $1 bills. Makes a really fun desk ornament, about the size of a volleyball.
I've done this! Surprisingly difficult not from needing crisp bills, but you need to ever so slightly fold the bills to render them into a 1:3 ratio before starting the "normal" folds
I've definitely had dreams where I solve spatial arranging, it's wild stuff
I am ashamed to say I actually figured it out fairly quickly once the rule of how they fit together sunk in. One corner of one tetrahedron fits through the opening of another and vice versa. They all follow this rule. It's much easier to visualize with just two, but the principle carries over into the full 5 as well. Any tetrahedron follows this rule with each other tetrahedron in the object. Really elegant and really fun to look at.
I love so much when Matt Parker joins, his builds are just incredibly satisfying to watch come together.
Right? We love it when he’s in town!
I love that Adam says "maths" to accommodate his guest. Such a little thing that lets you know how much he wants people to be comfortable in his cave.
And Matt in return says "math" xD
He still used inches. I feel for him, it is hard to reprogram your brain.
Adam says "maths" 13:50
@@zadrik1337 yeah when adam started measuring the origami in inches I winced. He absolutely has metric calipers in his shop as well, which just makes scaling so much easier.
@@baxterwilliams2170 was very impressed. I have lived in the UK and Australia for almost two decades and still can't make the word "maths" come out of my mouth naturally, and even if I get it right I use all my mental energy getting my mouth and tongue to produce the word that I end up stumbling on a word later on in the sentence.
It's fascinating watching you talk to someone that "Speaks" your language. the enthusiasm in your voice and on your face were great.
"math isn't about memorising, it is about working it out"
I tell myself this every time I have to derive the quadratic formula.
It is why I love math, but hate integration. I can see patterns, I just don't know which pattern goes with which outcome, even with full cheat sheets.
If only I had someone to tell me that back in elementary school. So much being forced to memorize.
I'm way more into math now as an adult thankfully.
its actually what I tried to teach my nephews, while their grandma tried to make them memorize everything, I tried to put in their head that you can't memorize everything and learning other people's shortcut won't help as much as you think. the best way to learn math is just to do it, you will memorize things and learn your own tricks and shortcuts, and if you keep doing it your brain will create its own pathways to solve problems.
That's why I gave up on the quadratic formula entirely. I just complete the square every single time. I can do half of it in my head and it's probably faster than most people doing quadratic formula anyway. I also derive the equation for percentages every single time by mapping ratios for the same reason
@@danilooliveira6580 I think other people's shortcuts can be helpful but only if they're given/taken with that understanding they won't always be. I started struggling in Math because I learned a lot of early principles on my own, that's great when you can fully work backwards but left me lacking a lot of foundations when things like transformations go from helpful simplifying to necessary steps.
You can find colorful tubes like that for aquariums and pc hard line watercooling if you ever need more.
Good thought
The energy that Adam brings to this project couples so well with Matt's. Adam running around grabbing things, while Matt thinks about how to figure out the right model scale is delightful.
Im a simple man, I see Matt Parker, I like the video
Excellent taste!
I’m a simple man, I see a Matt Parker video and my brain starts to use synapses that I haven’t used in 30 years and I have to lie down in a dark room for a while….
Matt plus Adam is better than the sum of their parts
Same
I'm a regular man, when I see regular polyhedra, I like the video.
This is my favorite shape! I've had the origami version as Christmas tree topper for a few years.
Oh, cool!
I want that! Where did you find it?
When Adam starts running in his shop, you know that he is excited :)
Seeing Matt and Adam be so satisfied with their dodecahedrons after building them is what I didn't know I needed.
This kind of content is where RUclips truly sparkles
At 9:43 Adam shows the pure joy in the vindication of being The Guy who keeps every little thing he might possibly need in storage somewhere, just in case he might need it later.
Ah I'm super happy you're with Matt again. One of my all time favourite episode is was the mirror shapes
Hard to believe that build was four years ago.
@@testedIt really doesn't seem like it could be so long ago.
@@testedone who "something happening" ago, but zero age units ago.
Expert camera work that keeps the camera on Matt Parker while Adam sprints out of frame making **band saw noises** to find things 😂
Please keep doing these guest videos, be it polyhedra, legos, models, furniture, guitarxs... what have you.
We hope to!
Math and legos or maths and lego....the malleable English language! :)
Watching you two nerd out together is fantastic. You're not even trying to be presenters anymore, you're just absorbed in the project and it's awesome.
Zoobs! I am so happy to have this connection to Adam. We love zoobs, my son is autistic and adores zoobs, I literally bought every set, he has giant bins full of them. He builds with them every day.
Whoa! The synergy between you two is amazing! Two such fantastic analytical minds working together a joy to behold! Thanks for tackling this wonderful conundrum together!
I'm a handyman so I utterly enjoy watching Adam and seeing his brain work. Watching a mathematician like Matt work things out is equally impressive if not more.
So enjoyed this collab
The excitement Adam and Matt stoke in each other is contagious, it’s worth saying again that these two have fantastic chemistry!
I built one of the origami ones over a decade ago, and seeing both Matt and Adam wrap their brains around the weaving part was a bit of a treat. I had the origami instructions to follow and it was still a bit of a challenge, especially because the weaving step had no increased detail of how that step worked.
48:08 My soul hurt when Matt so casually turned down an offer to use a frickin CURTA CALCULATOR…
You two are my favorite geeks on the internet and it makes me so happy to watch you both work and then revel in the fact that we humans are lucky enough to get high from insight.
11:04 I love this moment because my brain was going in the same direction as they were figuring it out I was nodding going yeah, yeah, exactly! having the same realisations Adam did, it's so much fun figuring stuff out like that.
I absolutely love this, definitely need more of Adam and Matt making more of these, either that or a super long cut of it
I really like the shot at 58:14 of the two just sitting and admiring their work
As a beader and textile needle crafter I can with confidence say that I always calculate cording (or thread) on a project that is new to me thus:
Cord length (including any double back for securing shape plus 30%-40%. Leave a fairly long tail at the beginning. Then trim and tie off or weave back in both ends. A lazy (or efficient) way to calculate is create the first simple repeating shape, take it apart and measure the cord used and multiply by how many repetitions.
Adam: “Oh, it’s in thousandths of an inch.”
*Matt dies.*
very few things inspire me quite like getting to see Adam, Adam being absolutely thrilled by spatial planning, and color, and teamwork, and the thrill of executing a good plan in a day
How she built that incredible object out of paper, and it came out as a solid object that holds its shape is as incredible as the build depicted here. Incredible the talents that people have.
After all that, they agreed that it's just a matter of whether you skip to the left, or skip to the right.
Wonderful stuff! Fascinating to watch not unfold.
Adam "my brain thanks you"
Me "my brain is hurting".......
the spark of inspiration at 11mins was beautiful to see :)
The best duo for a one day build!
The very moment they started trying to thread a second one through, realizing they may need to rethink how they string the tubes, I began to feel anxious and wondered whether it was time for lunch yet, even though I am watching this in the middle of the night.
Two men with wonderful smiles and amazing skills. Such fun!
Watching these two do this was, indeed, a joy.
I hope we don't have to wait 4 more years for another one of these!
Us too!
This is my favourite combination. Someone intimately familiar with a thing on a theoretical level and Adam excitedly running around making it happen. That excitement is contagious. I want to make something now.
Watching these two together is always a pleasure! Bring in Destin from SmarterEveryDay and I think there would be so much enthusiasm for learning that it collapses into a singularity
i don't think i've seen a better example of two people with great chemistry together, i hope you guys do more stuff together you compliment each other perfectly
This reminds me of building the dodec pod for the movie Contact in the mid 90s in 3D using Alias software. There were no pre-shapes and I had to figure out how to construct it which was a real mind twister. So fun to see this process and how complicated they are finding it as well.
I haven't seen Matt before, but I've always considered Adam to be really smart and it warms my heart to see the both of them struggle to visualize, but keep trying until they succeed!
Adam with some impressively fast hands at 16:45... You to have some great chemistry on camera.
56:20 The moment that Adam realizes that he has a single piece out of place.
Long before Zoob, my late-1960s 8th-grade Algebra teacher had a commercial math toy, a set of rubber bands and plastic straws to make polyhedrons.
I'm so happy that Matt and Adam are still killing it on these fun builds. Both of these videos are delightful adventures in problem solving and I love it so much.
I have made the origami version with each tetrahedra made of 4 interwoven tetrahedra. It is spectacular, but it was so difficult to build. I followed the instructions from a book called mind blowing modular origami
Awesome build! Love these Matt Parker collabs, would love to see more. Stand up maths is one of those channels I watch everything he does, as even if I am not interested in the topic, the telling is always entertaining. You have that same skill Adam, in that I can watch you build things with tools I will never own and still enjoy the whole process.
Love the pause when matt says "this is easy if we build the dodecahedron first" 😂
I made this shape a couple of years ago, modeled it and printed it in clear uv resin. Every strut is identical, just enough tolerance for each tetrahedra to move a little when you handle it. One of the worst things i ever assembled, one of my favorite shelf things to this day.
That moment when Adam hit the example with his hand......priceless.
We need more colabs between these two. I love watching them get so excited about shapes
Such a neat way of creating a model, using tubes and elastic cord! I noticed a slight mistake in Adam's model, if you look at 53:30, the red tetrahedra should pass through the face of the yellow.
I absolutely love this shape and the origami version! I've never folded it as small as the one in this video, but have done it from $1 bills before. For those interested, the origami model was created by Tom Hull, using a unit created by the late Francis Ow. Tom uses 1:3 ratio paper to fold the units.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one seeing it!
Only I think it's Matt that has it wrong... I'm looking at 44:55
Yeah I noticed that from the other side at 53:11. Just one spot where a yellow and red should have been on the other sides of each other. You can see it again at 56:13 and Adam looks at that side at 56:20 and makes a face that makes me think he saw it. I bet he fixed it and just cut it out to keep the video under an hour. I didn't see any mistake's in Matt's.
RUclips gentlemen together are always gold. About halfway through the process I started a comment that had to do with taping them together for stability before you string them. Done within seconds you gentlemen started doing the same thing LOL
"The property of this shape is that when you look away, rotate it and look back it doesn't matter and you'll never find that specific vertex again (except if you use colors)" - then 36:08
😂
5:50 I love how he used a Ferrero Rocher container for save transport. I've always kept those, be it to use them as manual pads for my fingerboard as a kid or to store little pieces for current projects now.
Two of my favourite men in a room together sharing their joy of making and maths and just generally geeking out, this is fantastic.
"All old people know each other, don't you know that?"
Are you implying these guys are members of the White Lotus?
: )
One of my favourite collabs!
11:18 Matt's knowing "yeah yeah yeah yeah" was just perfect.
As a origami geek, was a huge pleasure watch this build, congrats!
This shape is what Doc Brown was thinking of before he bumped his head in the bathroom and came up with the Flux Capacitor
LMAOOO!!!
You guys problem solving and having a blast together is super inspiring to see )
ferrero rocher box. classic bits and bobs box.
also I was thinking the dodecahedron edges should go smaller to 3 inches because their angles to each other don't extend their length as much as the angles between the tetrahedron edges. and your final results seem to biasly confirm that without substantiation.
You guys have mad chemistry. I’d watch a series with both of you in a heart beat
Even though I could feel the mental pain of puzzling out how to assemble these works of art, I also desperately wanted to be there assembling one myself.
Oh, Adam starting to do the blue and realising "Oh no" is precious, haha
When two middle aged men get together for a play date. . .
Enjoyed watching you nerds debate back and forth the entire time!
Best line: "if reality wasn't an issue"
I'll be using this 😅😂
Matt seems like such a fun guy to be around. His energy and enthusiasm is contagious.
It's so fun to see Adam's intense energy kinda out Energy-ing Matt
I had a building set that was made from tubes as s child, just like the ones you used for this build. They were smaller in size but linked together with bends and such
This is how you build a friendship.
Or ruin one, there's no in between
42:23
I love seeing Adam SO excited as he figures out the ideal way to do this project. He's so happy about all of it and so pumped to do it.
24:00 Adam Accidentally Invents A Spatial Intelligence Test (patent pending)
Two thirds of what's happening in this video is stuff you have to imagine in your mind.
A very special kind of nerdy entertainment.
"Quarter of an inch by 2.5" hurt my engineering brain, and I laughed at Matt's response to discovering the calipers were in Freedom Units 😄
I love watching two insanely smart people bounce great ideas off of each other. I've been waiting so long for another vid with Matt Parker, so glad this is the result ❤❤❤
Gettin' In Shape with Adam and Matt
seeing this reminded me that I knew (I think I still can figure out from memory?) how to make a dodecahedron origami, more so...basically...the bounding box they mention?
“I did recently purchase 50 wooden balls.”
Things only Adam Savage would ever say.
So many little joys in this episode! I highly encourage everyone to try modelling such polyhedra in their own mediums using whatever method they find most pleasing. And discovering that method is always part of the fun. I once made them in Blender doing the maths to work out the position of vertices and building them point by point - very cool to see the same mind-bending construction and calculation (as well as familiar numbers) but represented in physical reality! I had the same wow moment when seeing the formulae that snap them all together. The maths is always challenging for me so it was nice to gain some kinship with these odd numbers! (and beautiful constructions).
And who said building macaroni noodle necklaces in kinder wouldn't come in handy later in life😂 great video so far guys
54:35 "If reality wasn't an issue" - this scratched an itch deeep in my soul. I just love the way of thinking these guys have