Rolling Ball Sculpture

Rolling Ball Sculpture

A Rolling Ball Sculpture is a form of kinetic art or kinetic sculpture, that specifically involves one or more rolling balls. Kinetic art is a form of art that contains moving pieces. Rolling Ball Sculpture art typically includes rails or tracks made of metal or wood, and one or more balls (or marbles) of some kind that travels down the tracks. Ball types include and are not limited to: Steel, Acrylic, Wood, and Glass. Rolling Ball sculptures are often described as being both busy and soothing at the same time. They are an artistic form of mechanical motion.

Rolling Ball sculptures (RBS) are sometimes referred to as marble runs, ball runs, gravitrams, or rolling ball machines.

There are some commercial ones like Spacewarp from Bandai, Techno Ball and Chaos Machine. Some hobbyists and artists also like making the sculptures by themselves using wood, metal or plastic.

The largest rolling ball sculpture in the world, at 22m high, is supposedly the Energy Machine, located in the Hong Kong Science Museum in Hong Kong.

Very little printed material exists about this form of art; however there are quite a few examples of this on the Internet.

ee also

*Spacewarp (toy)
*Chaos Machine
*Rube Goldberg machine

External links

* [http://www.gravitram.com/index_and_chronology_of_gravitra.htm History of Gravitram]
* [http://www.ballmachinesculptures.com Sculptures by George Rhoads]
* [http://www.eddiesmind.com Sculptures by Eddie Boes]
* [http://www.markinetic.com Sculptures by Mark Bischof]
* [http://www.zachmann.com Sculptures by Jeffrey Zachmann]
* [http://www.rollingballsculpture.com Sculptures by Matthew Gaulden] With a how to section devoted to building RBS
* [http://www.stephenjendro.com Stainless Steel Kinetic RBS Art by Stephen Jendro]
* [http://www.stevenfleury.com Steel and Wood Sculptures by Steven Fleury]
* [http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/rb-rolling-ball.html] An online Compendium of Rolling Ball Sculptures, clocks with rolling balls, etc.
* [http://www.kugelbahn.ch/3_link_rbs.htm] Large list of Rolling Ball websites and examples


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