I wanted to carry the icosahedron model - but didn"t know how to carry it without causing damage - as my backpack is pretty stuffed.
I quickly grabbed 12 tiny strips of foil with holes in their ends, 6 screwable rivets, and a lanyard - and built an octahedron net I can carry around my neck.
The chance I might lose the icosadron model/ "inlay" is a bit higher as with my other plastic foil and rivet constructions - as - if I lose one rivet the hole in this net is large enough for the icosahedron inlay to fall through. (The rivets are just screwed in - so I can also take the inlay icosahedron model out. ). And losing one rivet is very probable.
But I take the risk - as I would most certainly notice the colorful icosahedron falling down if I lose a rivet. (The tiny rivet would most certainly be lost...But that loss is rather unimportant.)
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Side thoughts:
I love how such strips-and-rivets models are helpful for visualizing graph networks.
The rivets are nodes.
The strips are edges.
-> Also:
[Sorry for the incoming word salad/ thought gibberish:]
The stability of the physical models is better the more connections(/strips/edges) exist between the rivets/nodes. (More connections per rivet and more stability go hand in hand - literally. Losing one rivet/node would have less impact on the overall stability the more connected all rivets/nodes are towards each other.)
[ Further thoughts: Similar principles exist in the memory and how more connected memories are less prone to be forgotten. This is often the case for the learning technic of "Eselsbrücken" - i dont know the english equivalent rn- it means using associations to memorize stuff more easily - so it sticks better in the memory. (I might add an example later. But am too lazy rn)
Memory works like a dynamical graph network... ]
