modular pie-cosahedron

Step 3Attach magnets

attach magnets
at this point, we thought it was time to glue the magnets on. we wanted to use 6 magnets (aquired from amazingmagnets.com) to join each edge. interestingly enough, if you attach all six magnets to one side of each edge, you end up having to make some pans where two edge are lined with magnets and some pans where only one edge has magnets, a direct consequence of the so called "hairy ball theorem". the lack of symmetry is unsatisfying to say the least but has an easy solution. rather than trying to orient each edge, orient the pan, split the magnets so there are 3x3 on every pan and offset the magnets counter clockwise.
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