Modern Elements

Another [ C60 buckyball / truncated icosahedron / soccer-ball ] lamp.

The facets on this one are designed to shade the lamp bulb only when viewed directly, and otherwise be transparent to the inside of the lamp. This effect was generally successful but less impressive than I expected.

The first design ( modern_pentagon, modern_hexagon, baffel ) had these flaws :
-- weak, flexible walls made hinges hard to manage
-- impossibly tight hinges ( required removing a lot of plastic )
-- weak s