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Whaddaya Know About ... Industrial Uses For Marbles?


Steph

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This is an art use ... but with the marbles being a tool in the art, not a final part of it.

Okay ... steelies ... you may not call them marbles. 

But wow.

"In a 21st century take on the traditional Zen sand garden, artist Bruce Shapiro invented the Sisyphus Machine, an elaborate kinetic drawing machine that uses magnets to drag rolling steel marbles through a thin layer of sand to create complicated mandala-like patterns."

Bruce Shapiro’s Mesmerizing Kinetic Sand Drawing Machines

 

 

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2 hours ago, Steph said:

"Marbles in the soup"

Hopefully Soup does not claim against us for this headline ... ;)

But its new to me that real food gets photographed. Usually very fine looking artficial objects get shot. So why not pushing up things in the soup for a better look with some marbles.

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"Marbles are not only used as toys, but they are also used in filtration systems, as a mixing aid in spray paint cans, and have even been used by NASA in a space balloon for different gauge tests."

That's from the Marble King site, http://www.marblekingusa.com/industrial-marbles.html.

Pretty sure we haven't mentioned outer space yet in this thread. 

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