My latest mod: yet another Skewb variation

Thomas · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:18 pm

When I made my first Skewb mod earlier this year, I noticed that I could create the same shape with a slightly different truncation. So, just in time for this year's DCD, I decided to build it. Unlike my previous Skewb design, this one is a shapeshifting puzzle.

Again, this was just a rush job. Although it still took me one evening to cut and sand, one evening to fill the pieces with Epoxy Sculpt, one evening to sand and paint and one evening to cut stickers.

Thomas

Siraj A. · **Joined:** Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:14 pm **Location:** VA, USA

Thats really cool. Youre rockin out all these great mods! AMAZING!

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Interesting...

What shape would this be considered? Seems very random!

Noah · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:43 pm

Very nice.

Can we see a picture of them side by side?

Thomas · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:48 pm

Noah wrote:

Very nice.

Can we see a picture of them side by side?

They are side by side in the second and third row of the above image. They look very similar so I understand that you didn't see it right away.

Thomas

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Nice puzzle Thomas. You are not the only one rushing to get things done in time for Cube Day.

---a- -o--- · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:31 pm

That's awesome. Its times like these where I wish i was dutch. This, and when I watched Eurotrip lol

joey · **Joined:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:02 pm

Looks great, even for a non-rushed job!!

Thomas wrote:

They are side by side in the second and third row of the above image. They look very similar so I understand that you didn't see it right away.
Thomas

I see that now, when I first looked I thought it was all the same puzzle!

Noah · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:17 am

Sorry. I guess my joke was lost in translation.

I know they are next to each other. I was joking that they look so much alike, you can barely tell.

juanan · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:58 am

I like it

well done ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

Thomas · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:21 am

reeeech wrote:

What shape would this be considered? Seems very random!

This is my third twisty puzzle with this shape. I've been wondering if it has an 'official' name.
It's a dodecahedron, truncated in a manner so it fits inside a cube.
Anyone know how you can call this?

Thomas

Scott Bedard · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:35 pm

Fantastic!!! I'm a huge fan of these "baseball" shaped mods you've been making, keep up the great work!

Thomas · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:47 am

Scott Bedard wrote:

Fantastic!!! I'm a huge fan of these "baseball" shaped mods you've been making, keep up the great work!

Yeah, I have noticed their resemblance with waterpolo balls (not baseball).
But I don't think Waterpolo Skewb is such a cool name.

Thanks for the compliment.

Thomas

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:12 am

Another excellent mod, same shape with one of your past creations, but different movement!

Any chance to make one with a european football theme?

Pantazis

juanan · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:06 am

I think that if the puzzle is made from a skewb , the puzzle has to named
skewb xxxxxx

like skewb diamond, skewb ultimate etc.....

then i suggest something like SKEWB LABYRINTH

JUANAN :wink:

Daqing Bao · **Joined:** Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:41 am **Location:** China

Beautiful

jarettswatter · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:16 pm

I am definitely buying a skewb.

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

I am not familiar with the shape but suspect it would be called a dodecahexahedron or a dodecacube.

Puzzlemaster42 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:55 am

The set of colored faces resembles a bowtie (especially in the first version).

It could be called a Bowtie Cube...

frederic plateus · **Joined:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:10 pm **Location:** Belgium

That's so cool, and all those names..i am really bad in finding names.
As soon as it is in englsh, it's sounds well

Noah · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:40 am

Just looking at it, I was thinking...

It would be cool if it was truncated/built up/reshaped into a cube similar to Tony Fisher's Hexaminx.

It would be a Skewb mechanism in a cubic shape, but it would be axises misaligned.

Swordsman Kirby · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:53 am

Do you mean that perhaps the four axes are on edges?

Pembo · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:18 am

Isn't a Golden Cube like that?

Thomas · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:51 am

Noah wrote:

Just looking at it, I was thinking...

It would be cool if it was truncated/built up/reshaped into a cube similar to Tony Fisher's Hexaminx.

It would be a Skewb mechanism in a cubic shape, but it would be axises misaligned.

Hmm... so I guess my next build is no longer a surprise.

Thomas

Noah · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:35 pm

Pembo, taking on America wrote:

Isn't a Golden Cube like that?

With a 60 degrees turn from a normal position, yes.

@Thomas: I'm very eager to see it.

Great initiative.

Ranaakamarth · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:53 pm

Thats crazy good!

I wish I could mod like that. How did you do it? Mold? Truncate? Plastic sheets?

Thomas · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:52 am

Thomas wrote:

Noah wrote:

Just looking at it, I was thinking...

It would be cool if it was truncated/built up/reshaped into a cube similar to Tony Fisher's Hexaminx.

It would be a Skewb mechanism in a cubic shape, but it would be axises misaligned.

Hmm... so I guess my next build is no longer a surprise.

Thomas

Just in case...

IN THE NAME OF THE NETHERLANDS, I CLAIM THIS DESIGN AND CALL IT THOMAS' CUBE.

Give me a few more days to build it.

Thomas

frederic plateus · **Joined:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:10 pm **Location:** Belgium

wooord homie!!

Myke · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:46 pm

AHH! So many amazing skew mods! :lol:

Ranaakamarth · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:53 pm

it looks alot like a baseball shape if you consider the sharper edges as the leather cuts

Erik · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:07 am

Dutch powerrrrr!!!

Rhlem · **Joined:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:24 am

i see a $1,000 auction coming to ebay

great job

Thomas · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:49 pm

I'm about halfway with my Thomas' Cube. Tomorrow I'll start with the filling, sanding, painting and stickering bit. It will look much cleaner when I'm done. But even then this will probably be just a prototype. Perhaps now is the time to take up molding.

Thomas

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edit: I finished it. See http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8042

Siraj A. · **Joined:** Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:14 pm **Location:** VA, USA

So it's based off the Skewb mech?

joey · **Joined:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:02 pm

Thomas wrote:

But even then this will probably be just a prototype. Perhaps now is the time to take up molding.
Thomas

Looks great already Thomas. And when you make a new one, you can send me the old prototype!

Swordsman Kirby · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:44 am

*drool*

timselkirk · **Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:58 am

Great mods, Thomas,

I hadn't had a close look through all of this thread before now. They look better than prototypes to me. It is facinating following your thought process from the "truncated" megaminx, through the two skewb variants to the Thomas Cube, I see where these ideas came from.

I particularly like the non-shape-shifting nature of the first skewb mod. Great work. Keep it up!

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