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wwwmwww
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Post subject: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:48 pm
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Joined: Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:09 pm
Website: http://www.wwwmwww.com/
Location: Queen Creek, AZ
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All,
I'd like to introduce my newest puzzle. This is the Doctor Cube. Like the Doctor Skewb it is a slice-turn-only mixup puzzle. Others have been asking for a Doctor Skewb with a real Skewb core, Bram being a prime example, but I decided to go an easier direction. No one has yet made a Mixup Cube without a real 2x2x2 (or Fused Cube) core. So thus is born the Doctor Cube.
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Solved
After 1 Turn
After 2 Turns
Partially Scrambled
Nearly Solved. Just one edge pair in the wrong orientation.
This puzzle was hinted at here.
Since this is a slice turn only puzzle, two opposite pieces are in effect locked together to form one piece. So you can view this puzzle as having 3 pairs of opposite face centers and 6 pairs of opposite edges. This is the x=9 moveable pieces mentioned in the hint. Each piece/pair has 8 (x-1) possible orientation though as stickered that full orientation information is only seen on the edges. And I have 9 (x) stickers on each face. Jared pointed out that this property is shared with the Junior Pyraminx. I could also point out that both puzzles have 2*sqrt(x) faces. I found that interesting. Granted the Doctor Cube is a bit harder then the Junior Pyraminx but its actually the first puzzle I've designed that I can solve on my own. This will likely be the easiest puzzle I'll design for some time.
This puzzle was also a testbed for an idea I've had which I should be able to use to improve the Thorny Cube. It wasn't till I made this puzzle that I fully understood the "reason" Oskar is talking about here.
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Enjoy,
Carl
P.S. If someone wants to remove the background from these images PLEASE pm me.
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Last edited by wwwmwww on Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Luke
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:58 pm
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Joined: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:21 pm
Location: Bristol, UK
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Awesome puzzle Carl! I was just thinking whether it would be possible to make a Doctor Thorny Cube, by which the circles are attached to the middle layer. I'm not sure if it's possible, but it would be a nice combination of your puzzles to see.
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boublez
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:02 pm
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Joined: Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:00 am
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Nice puzzle Carl. I really like the back to basics feel this has. Would this be considered a doctrine puzzles? If it is I wonder how many other puzzles were made with out ever having a doctrine puzzle made first.
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wwwmwww
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:22 pm
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boublez wrote:Would this be considered a doctrine puzzles?
Yes. Though the Mixup Cube is also a doctrinaire puzzle.
Carl
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Steryne
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:52 pm
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I believe I have seen a spherical version of this somewhere, but at the moment, the best I can find is this.
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Andreas Nortmann
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:04 am
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wwwmwww wrote:boublez wrote:Would this be considered a doctrine puzzles?
Yes. Though the Mixup Cube is also a doctrinaire puzzle.
And there are NO stored cuts.
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wwwmwww
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:13 pm
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Joined: Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:09 pm
Website: http://www.wwwmwww.com/
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For Andreas, the edge length is 60 mm and the puzzle weighs in at 44.9 grams.
Carl
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pirsquared
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:52 pm
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Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:46 pm
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wwwmwww
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:13 pm
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Joined: Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:09 pm
Website: http://www.wwwmwww.com/
Location: Queen Creek, AZ
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The Doctor Cube is now for sale on Shapeways. You can get it here:
http://www.shapeways.com/model/407559/
I've also cleaned up some of the above pictures this weekend. I'll try to get the last 2 this week.
If there is interest in dyed, assembled, stickered, and broken in puzzles please PM me.
Carl
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wwwmwww
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:12 pm
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Finally got the last 2 images cleaned up today.
However it looks like Andreas beat me to the punch. I notice the entry in the museum already has cleaned up copies of these images. Oh well, its been nice practice with GIMP. It still take me over 30 minutes per image so I still feel there has to be a faster way.
Carl
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Kapusta
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:18 pm
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wwwmwww wrote:It still take me over 30 minutes per image so I still feel there has to be a faster way.
In photoshop I might use the magic lasso or the magnetic lasso for these images, it would probably take me 5-10 minutes to get it perfect. Does GIMP have a similar feature?
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wwwmwww
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Post subject: Re: The Doctor Cube
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:35 pm
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Kapusta wrote:In photoshop I might use the magic lasso or the magnetic lasso for these images, it would probably take me 5-10 minutes to get it perfect. Does GIMP have a similar feature?
GIMP has a lasso but at present I'm still tracing out the object manually at 16x magnification of the original image. I haven't come across a "magic" or "magnetic" feature yet but I've just started using it.
Carl
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