Originally developed as a form that can be 3D printed with minimal supports that are part of the final design, the 4x4 rhombicuboctahedral lattice cube seems to want to take on a number of different purposes…

When 3D printing, the model is sliced into layers, printed one layer at a time with each layer adhering to the previous layer.  Horizontal elements, overhangs, and other types of unsupported elements need to be addressed by either adding supports that are later removed, or by rotating the model in 3D space to eliminate those elements.

I found that the 4x4 rhombicuboctahedral lattice cube, rotated in space to a specific angle in both the x and y axis, can be successfully printed at any scale with only 16 supports.

When that same form is created from hollow tubing and flipped upside down, the 16 supports can become 16 entry points for a ball.  And the same properties that allow the form to be 3D printed allow gravity to guide that ball through the cube to one of 16 exit points on the bottom of the cube.

Rhombicuboctahedral Miniature Golf Lattice Plinko Cube will only have 1 correct exit point out of a possible 16. And while the path of the ball is somewhat predicable—certain entry points tend to lead the ball to certain exit points more often than others—the complexity of the cube creates an amount of randomness that makes the choice of the proper entry point (to a reasonable degree of certainty) impossible.

The end result is a sculptural miniature golf hole that is both visually and conceptually interesting, and fun and challenging in ways that are not present in a traditional miniature golf hole.