grigorusha Breeze Cube (aka Curvy Dino Cube)

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

grigorusha Breeze Cube this is Compy/Dino Cube variation with wavy cuts.
This is from family of my puzzles Fluffy/Venus Cube.

My store: http://www.shapeways.com/shops/grigorusha
http://grigorusha.etsy.com/ and http://www.ebay.com/sch/grigorusha/m.html

Timur · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:54 am

I see you received my package

iaroslavski · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:02 am

Excellent design!

mmonede · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:37 am

Beautiful version!!

I'd definitely like to see the Compy/Dino Cube get mass produced ...

Aether13 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:06 pm

Very nice design, I like it.

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:30 pm

grigr wrote:

grigorusha Blower Cube this is Compy/Dino Cube variation with wavy cuts.
This is from family of my puzzles Fluffy/Venus Cube.

Nice... I like this but you could have done something I would have liked even more. There are 8 cuts on this Compy/Dino Cube. The surfaces that meet up to four of those cuts never touch the surfaces that meet up to the other four cuts. As such you didn't need to make all 8 cuts the same shape. Keep the cuts as they are for 4 corners (one of the possible tetrahedrons you could impose inside this cube). And for the other 4 corners I would have used the inverse cut. See my very very poor drawing.

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This would give you two types of corners and highlight some of the interesting properties of the Dino Cube. For example it would make it very easy to see why you couldn't flip an edge piece. And the additional variation I think would also add to the appeal gained by making the cuts wavy in the first place.

Carl

Drake · **Joined:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:48 pm **Location:** Canada

Nice

but isn't a compy rex illusion :/?

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

wwwmwww
I understand your idea!

Letti · **Joined:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:19 pm

AAAAH! Scary.
Nice job. Me gusta

Sigurd · **Posted:** Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:28 pm

Maybe it's just me having a dirty mind, but I dont like the name

I like the puzzle though

Aleksey · **Posted:** Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:07 pm

Sigurd wrote:

Maybe it's just me having a dirty mind, but I dont like the name

Ah, I was waiting when someone would say that.
It would mean that I am not alone in thinking that [dirty] way. :mrgreen:

Jorbs3210 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:15 pm

Void Compy cube, anybody?

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

I upload Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-HaKbHMkCE

also change name

"Breeze Cube"

http://www.shapeways.com/model/318343/breeze-cube.html

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

Jorbs3210 wrote:

Void Compy cube, anybody?

no problem...

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:44 am

grigr wrote:

wwwmwww
I understand your idea!

That's it!!! Thanks. Sorry about the slow reply. I saw this the day you posted and made a note to reply later and then it slipped my mind. Its interesting that this was posted the day before Timur's F-Skewb (version 2) as it wasn't till the first version of that puzzle came out that I understood the cuts for the corners related to one inscribed tetrahedron were independant of the other. This puzzle shows that very nicely while allowing the same depth cuts on all corners. At first glance one tends to think the puzzle may be bandaged as its obvious the edges can't be flipped, but its not and this design forces one to think about why its not. I like puzzles that make you think before you even try to solve them.

Carl

grigr · **Joined:** Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:38 pm **Location:** Russia

wwwmwww wrote:

I like puzzles that make you think before you even try to solve them.

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