RubixFreakGreg's Prisminx Crystal

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:08 pm

Hey everyone,

I know I haven't made a puzzle in a long time, but here's the Prisminx Crystal !!

It is not a three layered 10-part cheese, because it only turns like a PC pent prism, which was pretty much what I was looking for

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Turning is very smooth, but if you try a reverse corner cut, since the puzzle is deep cut it won't work and you'll have to turn the other way to unlock it up. Logical.

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As for corner cutting, not reverse, it's pretty amazing!

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Small precision: like the cheese puzzle, since it's deep cut and only two dimensions of axes, due to the mechanism, if you push a flying edge (not attached to the core (which is a Pent Prism) it will be able to be pushed a bit up/down, but with normal turning, it only happens about once every 10 turns, and you can realign it very easily.

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Video

The auction will start tomorrow
Enjoy !!

- Greg

Luke · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:11 pm

Greg's been showing me this beast on Skype for a while now, and I'm still in awe of it. On the other hand, I still hate you, because you won't put it on Shapeways! :lol:

Chilen · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:27 pm

Nice puzzle.

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

very gooood!

yummyyummypbj · **Joined:** Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:50 am

This puzzle looks amazing. I don't really know what else to say, except for the fact that I am making something similar. It has the pyraminx crystal cuts but it is only two layers. Nice work.

Aleh · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:43 pm

The great puzzle! It turns amazingly. Maybe one day it will be mass-produced (just dream). :roll:

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:46 pm

Aleh wrote:

The great puzzle! It turns amazingly. Maybe one day it will be mass-produced (just dream). :roll:

It's too bad, but this puzzle would have little issue for mass production:

1)

I wrote:

if you push a flying edge (not attached to the core (which is a Pent Prism) it will be able to be pushed a bit up/down

2) It uses shells and the mech is a Pent Prism, and 4 shells is too much already to mass produce

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:09 pm

Oh I forgot something very important in the topic, sorry for the double post but it's completely a different idea:

Solving is EXTREMELY hard!!! I tried solving for 5 hours:

10 minutes for one edge out of 2 (all pieces attached to the Pent Prism)
2 hours to get close to solving
2 hours 50 minutes to try doing the last 3-cycled edges
10 minutes to unscrew diesassemble and reassemble the puzzle :lol:

And everytime you try a RLR'L' type of alg or anything of the type, it destroys the rest of what you were solving! CRAZY!!!

boublez · **Joined:** Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:00 am

can this puzzle jumble like square one?

Luke · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:18 pm

boublez wrote:

can this puzzle jumble like square one?

No.

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:20 pm

Exactly: the point wasn't to make a three layered 10 part cheese but a PC PP, the mech would only be slightly different though if i were to make it "mixup"

- Greg

Door · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:41 am

It's great to see this finally made!

2 other people have designed this but this is the first to be built. Nice!!

-Mark-

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:55 am

I know yummyyummypbj designed a two layered one as he told me by PM and on the thread but who was the other?

- Greg

Sigurd · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:34 am

I saw this yesterday on youtube. I have heard rumours about this puzzle for a while - but it's amazing to finally see it coming to life!
Congratulations on another success Greg! It looks so good!

Would a one layer one be possible/ in proportions?

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:36 am

Sigurd wrote:

Would a one layer one be possible/ in proportions?

Of course, but you need space for a pent prism inside for the mech lol.

What i could do is make it "spherical" with a puzzle ring in the middle, adding sq-1 addons, and then extend it so it looks EXCATLY the same, yet making it be a "mixup" puzzle (allowing 36° turns, not only 72°)

Door · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:42 am

RubixFreakGreg wrote:

I know yummyyummypbj designed a two layered one as he told me by PM and on the thread but who was the other?

- Greg

I designed one in may 2010, and another here by Clay n Eva Creations.
I never printed my design, and I have no idea if C&E had their design printed either.

Also a mixup version would be very awesome to see made!

-Mark-

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:52 am

Door wrote:

RubixFreakGreg wrote:

I know yummyyummypbj designed a two layered one as he told me by PM and on the thread but who was the other?

- Greg

I designed one in may 2010, and another here by Clay n Eva Creations.
I never printed my design, and I have no idea if C&E had their design printed either.

Also a mixup version would be very awesome to see made!

-Mark-

I could mod it to be a mixup versoin, but I don't know if doing the same looking puzzle is a good idea ^^

I like variating, but if many people ask, sure i'll do that

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