Wall Mounted #87 5ft high X 30" wide w/ 3 tracks!

Completed Nov 2009 - 1-3/8" minature billiard balls used.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• rolling
• ball
• sculpture
• wall
• mounted
• kinetic
• art
• marbles
• coaster
• roller
• run

[epwafer]

ENTHRALLING

[brono25]

@jeremy10100

Impossible, no such thing as free energy.

[jeremy10100]

Every time I see something like this I really wonder if there is some way to line the track with some sort of conducting material connected to a battery, then like mwysocz said, you could have a device carry the balls back up and drop them off again, an electric generator might not be able to regenerate its own power but if you had some source of kinetic energy like this...it could be an unlimited source of power

[skipp311]

They should have used this in Minority Report. jk

Very cool.

[deadlyfalcon89]

@mwysocz Every rolling ball sculpture I have seen makes some sound, proportional to the size of the ball. The least noisy ones are those made from wood, but they still make quite a bit of noise. Sound production can be reduced by using rubber balls, but those absorb energy going around tight turns and even on straightaways, reducing the options the maker has in what stunts the balls can do.

As to the lifting mechanism, the chain in the center is part of one, it just didn't run in the video.

[mwysocz]

i like. really nice, but loud. it would be even nicer if it didn't make any noise and would proceed balls to the top after reaching very end. This way it would be a nice stuff to have in the office, house and it would not require any involvement nor would it disturb at work

[daboss11111]

You have a future in making wicked intense roller coasters lol.

[MrZhilvinas]

sounds like a train..



[65ways]

how about some glow in the dark marbles in the dark.

[furyberserk]

Sell the design to a roller coster company.