permanent Ball Tracks

[+Tante.Hossi 11]

I'm thinking about a new category for permanent Ball Tracks (I hope this is the right term ...).

 

Examples:

http://www.Waymarkin...0c-6b819230c536

http://www.Waymarkin...b1-4edecd083b53

 

You can find them at parks, museums, playgrounds, town halls and at other locations.

They are made of stone, wood, metal or other materials.

They have to be permanent to qualify.

Some of them are just simple but others are more comlicated.

 

What do you think?

Is this an interesting idea?

 

I know we have an existing categories for Rolling Ball Sculptures. But they are something different and really hard to find.

[+T0SHEA 180]

Perhaps you mean these: http://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=439f3ce3-d220-428d-9a1f-7c76620a27d9&r=10

[+fi67 154]

Perhaps you mean these: http://www.Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=439f3ce3-d220-428d-9a1f-7c76620a27d9&r=10

Rolling Ball Sculptures need some kind of lifting mechanism to qualify.

 

So Tante.Hossi's examples do not fit there.

 

I am not sure yet. It depends on the exact category definition. But why not?

[+Tante.Hossi 11]

Rolling Ball Sculptures need some kind of lifting mechanism to qualify.

That's the point!

[+elyob 156]

Really hard to find...that's for sure.

[+T0SHEA 180]

Rolling Ball Sculptures need some kind of lifting mechanism to qualify.

That's the point!

 

The point here is that the "Rolling Ball Sculptures" category has a grand total of 40 approved waymarks and was created on 1/20/2009. That is 7 years, 3 months, 11 days ago.

 

How will this category fare seven years from now?

[+T0SHEA 180]

Rolling Ball Sculptures need some kind of lifting mechanism to qualify.

 

So, would this qualify as a lifting mechanism?

 

[+fi67 154]

Rolling Ball Sculptures need some kind of lifting mechanism to qualify.

 

So, would this qualify as a lifting mechanism?

 

I am not an officer, but I would approve it. And don't forget to crosspost it to the Vortex category!

[+lumbricus 52]

These ball tracks are great. Through all my travels I've never seen one. So I think they are too rare for their own category.

[+Manville Possum 286]

I would support your idea.

[+Tante.Hossi 11]

I don't know if they are too rare for an own category.

 

Here are some more examples I came across during my travels without searching for them:

http://www.Waymarkin...91-ed0ea7c07ea3

http://www.Waymarkin...96-bde5e35bcdda

http://www.Waymarkin...7b-a2ae4bdba3ae

http://www.Waymarkin...3a-35b8f08b2e54

 

Thanks for your comments!

[+Benchmark Blasterz 65]

Personally, we think there are not enough of them to sustain their own category. I have not seen one, and I travel a lot, and go to many different kinds of places. Are these predominantly found in science museums? Or are they just random art pieces?

[+BruceS 4]

Not sure but would they might fit in the Kinetic Sculptures category.

[+Tante.Hossi 11]

I'm still dealing with this old idea of 2016. So I want to bring it back on topic. 

I still love this ball tracks. And I came accross some more in the last years. 

 

So what do you think?

[+iconions 173]

30 minutes ago, Tante.Hossi said:

I'm still dealing with this old idea of 2016. So I want to bring it back on topic. 

I still love this ball tracks. And I came accross some more in the last years. 

 

So what do you think?

I go back to the original discussion - I've never seen them in all my travels.  There didn't seem to be a lot of support back 4 years ago for this idea because of the rarity of these.