Rex Illusion - by Incredible and Door

Door · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:58 pm

Hi everyone!

Here is another puzzle I designed in Alibre design, and was printed by Incredible. I wanted to make this puzzle ever since I saw Drew's Rex cube, and now I have!

Here are the pictures:

2 Rex cubes:

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Wait a minute, it's not supposed to turn like that!

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I hope you like it!

Video and Auction will come soon!

-Mark-

c1829 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:20 pm

Very cool! Solving would be similar to a dino cube right?

Door · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:08 pm

c1829 wrote:

Very cool! Solving would be similar to a dino cube right?

Yes, very similar.

-Mark-

MonkeyZ · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:59 pm **Location:** NJ

Very nice, this is similar to a compy cube right? Anyways, is it possible to make it turn like a rex cube too, sort of like a rex cube+dino/compy cube?

Door · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:19 pm

MonkeyZ wrote:

Very nice, this is similar to a compy cube right? Anyways, is it possible to make it turn like a rex cube too, sort of like a rex cube+dino/compy cube?

It is very similar to a compy cube. I thought of trying a combination of rex+this, but havent tried designing it yet.

-Mark-

Pepsis · **Joined:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:43 am **Location:** Italy

Nice one

Since it can't turn like a regular Rex Cube, the centers become fixed, right? It seems easier that the normal Rex.

Monopoly · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:40 pm

It's much easier, just a Dino cube with corners

Great puzzle, I've seen several designs of this but finally one has been made. Is this the first puzzle with reverse-parabolic shallow cuts that's been made?

c1829 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:20 pm

Monopoly wrote:

Is this the first puzzle with reverse-parabolic shallow cuts that's been made?

I feel like I've seen another one before but I can't think of it right now.

Pepsis · **Joined:** Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:43 am **Location:** Italy

Monopoly wrote:

It's much easier, just a Dino cube with corners

Great puzzle, I've seen several designs of this but finally one has been made. Is this the first puzzle with reverse-parabolic shallow cuts that's been made?

Mhm

, you're right, part of the corners is fixed too, I didn't think about it.
It practically is a normal Dino Cube with some esthetical difference

Kapusta · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:06 pm

Super cool! Reverse curvy compy cube?

Jared · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:20 pm

Hehe, I was just wondering the other day if this would ever be built. Awesome!

Luke · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:13 am

I too was thinking about this puzzle. It looks great, good work guys.

JeongEC · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:16 am

Great idea!
Love it.

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

I really like the Compy Cube and I love this design. I agree that it would be cool to have this function as a Rex Cube too.

Alex

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:36 am

I wanted to make this but did not find time

Good work!

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:41 pm

NICE!!! This set of corner turning cubes reminds me of this set of edge turning cubes I had wanted to see made:
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=215828#p215828
These two sets would complement each other wonderfully.

Re-reading that thead I see problems were encountered that would require pillowing the puzzles which I asked about here:
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=216355#p216355
But I think things were dropped after that.

The last puzzle needed would be a face turning cube. And the nice thing there... the convex and the concave version would be the SAME puzzle so you'd only need one cube. It would function just like a 3x3x3. See what I mean by that? I can make a picture if its needed.

Carl

incredible · **Joined:** Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:20 am **Location:** Germany

Hi to everyone,

here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkeAgbyfj74

Hope you´ll like it

mitchblahman · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:22 pm

haha that's exactly what i thought when i first saw the dino cube

DLitwin · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:05 am

Those pieces must be pretty sharp! Nice work.

Dave

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