The first Reuleaux Minx is made by Traiphum. It was a truncation only mod, his version 2 involved extension to be more "Reuleaux", but I prefer the relatively uniform pieces' sizes of the V1. So I went ahead and made myself one. This is my first pillowed mod, and I'm pretty satisfied with how it came out. It is the most elegant looking puzzle I made! One thing though, it is not really a Reuleaux tetrahedron. A Reuleaux tetrahedron is attained from the intersection of four spheres which are defined: their origins placed at the vertices of the regular tetrahedron with the radius equal to the edge length of the tetrahedron. My puzzle is more pillowed than that due to the amount of truncation I cam make on a megaminx. So, the origins of the spheres(roughly) would form a smaller tetrahedron within the regular tetrahedron. So if any one knows the name of this type of shape, please tell me, I'll change the name accordingly.
Here are the pictures:
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This is showing the edge, I made it as straight as I can
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Scrambled a little
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Size comparison
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Work in progress:
Rough truncation
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Putty fix some holes in the plastic
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Putty sanded down
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