New puzzle, "Rua" (Done, pictures and video included)

the.drizzle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:05 pm **Location:** Seed-nee

EDIT:

VIDEO

Got it! The movement is now on par with a new Eastsheen 444 cube (seriously!), and the overall feel of the puzzle has promoted it to the position of my new favorite.

For those that may be wondering, Rua is equivalent to a fully functional (i.e., "jumblable") version of gelatinbrain's 3.3.3 puzzle, with the added feature that part orientation counts too. Yikes!

Also, I'll post a video when the the sun comes back out.

Now, if only I could figure out how to solve the thing....

Cheers!

Pembo · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:09 pm

Oh just stop it will you? These are getting boring now!

Great work!

Hunter Palshook · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:16 pm

amazing

hope to see it finished within the month

Ceroblitz · **Joined:** Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:58 pm

Now this looks like the puzzle in your avatar, except the faces look like a 2x2 truncated cube instead of a 3x3 one, so it must be a lower order of your other puzzle.

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

You're a tease.

QUINBLZ · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:20 pm

This is going to be a mind numbing series of puzzles

David Calzone · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:26 pm

I'm still trying to figure out how the "Toru" works, and now this!

TheAtarian1 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:31 pm

Now thats pretty epic.

Steryne · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:54 pm

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timselkirk · **Posted:** Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:44 am

Rua?

Er I can't figure this out from the picture!

Another shape-shifting rhombic dodecahedron? But how does it turn? I can't even see where the rotations are! More pictures! More pictures!

Where are all these coming from? Great imagination!

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

Mental. Adopt me; so I can play with your puzzles.

chris the cynic · **Joined:** Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:15 pm

There are some days when I think that I'll never get anything done because people keep beating me to everything. This was literally next on my list of things to do. (The thing that I'm currently working on has already been done too but I figured I'd finish it just to finish something.)

It looks great, pretty much exactly how I imagined it.

Alokin · **Joined:** Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:03 am

It's amazing Matt!

Will we be allowed to see some mech's pictures? =]
And for Toru?

This is Maori for two =]
As the Toru (3)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_eT5KSaiAfY

the.drizzle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:05 pm **Location:** Seed-nee

Alokin wrote:

Will we be allowed to see some mech's pictures?

Actually, I think I may go back on my original promise and not be showing these for a while...

This is primarily because both of the puzzles turned out to be *a lot* more interesting than I thought they would be--"rua" especially--and at this point I would like to enter both of these puzzles in next years IPP. Thus, for now, I think I'll be basically sitting on these puzzles until then, so as to protect my entry.

In other words, these two puzzles are the first I have created that I would request that nobody duplicate *yet*, so that this is only a temporary exception to my normal policy

In the meantime though, both designs should make a cameo at DCD 2008 for those that may be interested

Cheers!

Noah · **Posted:** Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:39 pm

There we go! The Helicopter Cube in Rhombic Dodecahedron form!

Fantastic.

the.drizzle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:05 pm **Location:** Seed-nee

(Bump)

Added some new pictures as I finished it off today. I'll post a video soon.

Cheers!

Jesse Werner · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:26 pm

It looks beautiful. Amazing job. Congratulations.

Bigandrewgold · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:28 pm

Amazing

Andrew

fusion · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:40 pm

I wish I could try both of your amazing puzzles the.drizzle! I hope to try them someday in person.

Bram · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:50 pm

This is this puzzle with the little bitty pieces shaved off.

Drewseph · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:57 pm

Simply amazing! great work!!!

the.drizzle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:05 pm **Location:** Seed-nee

Bram wrote:

This is this puzzle with the little bitty pieces shaved off.

Close, but not quite! It's actually this.

Cheers!

timselkirk · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:14 am

That is beautiful. I still find it so hard to visualise the turns from these pictures.

I will be very interested in seeing the mech when you finally show it!

MarkSS · **Joined:** Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:29 am **Location:** UK

Good luck with your IPP entries - worthy contenders I'm sure. These must be the first puzzles made out of Kendal Mint Cake.

the.drizzle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:05 pm **Location:** Seed-nee

OK, last bump, here is a video of this oh-so-very-fine puzzle in action.

Cheers!

Drewseph · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:57 pm

I'm speechless! Fantastic demo video! How does it turn on a different axis after a partial turn on the other axis!? O_O I can't figure this out!

the.drizzle · **Joined:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:05 pm **Location:** Seed-nee

Drewseph wrote:

I'm speechless! Fantastic demo video! How does it turn on a different axis after a partial turn on the other axis!? O_O I can't figure this out!

It's like math in action

Fun fact:

No. of visible pieces: 38
No. of hidden pieces: 69

It's not exactly obvious how it works

Draconic · **Joined:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:58 am

Sometimes a simpler version of an existing mod looks better!

timselkirk · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:44 am

the.drizzle wrote:

VIDEO

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! It shouldn't do that. Its against the laws of geometry........Arghhhh.... gets sucked into black hole created by reality distortion...............

Bounb · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:45 pm

It's absolutely brilliant. Astounding

Justin · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:30 am

Aesthetic perfection. With 69 hidden pieces, the inside must look pretty amazing too.

AndrewG · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:48 pm

very nice!

these puzzles are really confusing for me as far as which cube they represent...

---ok once again I realized I made a redundant comment, just like in the toru thread. but I don't really feel like editting it right now, especially since it's not a totally useless comment.

Rua looks like 3.3.3 with several pieces (outer and middle edges) hidden. that would be 60 "hidden pieces" (like the eastsheen A4 hidden pieces) + 9 more "mechanism parts" making the 69 hidden pieces you mentioned.
the 9 mechanism parts would then most likely be the 12 axis center spindle plus some other piece at each corner to hold everything together. but that's just what the numbers "look like", I haven't thought any about how this would actually work.

Bram · **Posted:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:44 pm

Drewseph wrote:

I'm speechless! Fantastic demo video! How does it turn on a different axis after a partial turn on the other axis!? O_O I can't figure this out!

It's basically the same jumbling movement as the bevel/helicopter cube, which it's essentially a build-up of.

Bram · **Posted:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:46 pm

the.drizzle wrote:

Bram wrote:

This is this puzzle with the little bitty pieces shaved off.

Close, but not quite! It's actually this.

Cheers!

That depends on whether you're thinking of building up or shaving down - since you've cadded and built it, it makes sense that you're thinking exclusively in terms of build-up. I can go either way, but was thinking in terms of shave-down in that earlier post.

New puzzle, "Rua" (Done, pictures and video included)

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