Jason's Circo-Radiolarian +VIDEO (Face Turning Icosahedron)

JasonSmith · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:36 pm

The straight-cut Radiolarian is finally finished! This one has no centers which allowed me to add some nice corner and star-arm interior mechanisms (with none of the fudging used in the Cornered Radiolarian).

The prefix circo is a nod to Circogonia Icosahedra, the organism that isnpired the Radiolarian name.

I'll also be calling it Radiolarian II.

VIDEO ADDED

Synester · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:40 pm

Love it Jason! My favorite of the three!

Chris

Clay n Eva Creations · **Joined:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:17 pm

wwwooooaaahhhhhh!

thats the most beautiful thing ive ever seen!

Kapusta · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:46 pm

Without a doubt the greatest of the three face-turning icosahedra! How's the turning?

Puzzle of the Year 2010 nominee for sure!

eye2eye · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:48 pm

I like this
Its funny because Circo makes me think circle but this one is straight cut

bhearn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:44 pm

Congratulations! Looks beautiful. How does it turn?

So, you beat me to 2.1.1. Shapeways sent mine to Menlo Park, NJ, instead of Menlo Park, CA. Thanks a lot, Shapeways.

Hugo Mak · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:51 pm

At last, the FTI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

greeneye · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:08 pm

the pattern reminds me of an FTO

Derek Bosch · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:22 pm

jeez, Jason, you're just cranking them out!

-Derek

Leslie Le · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:25 pm

WoW, awesome!

merlintocs · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:09 pm

Oh, Jason. That puzzle is truly a masterpiece!

Just, wow.

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:12 pm

Nice.... now where is the video?

Carl

Hugo Mak · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:28 pm

I think it should look better in black plastic. :wink:

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

Is this the same as the cornered radiolarian or should I add this puzzle to the list as another Radiolarian?

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:56 pm

Truly amazing work!

Jared · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:51 pm

Apollo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:53 pm

Absolutely stunning. Wow, there is so much more I want to say but I am actually finding a hard time to pick the right words. Jason, this is truly a masterpiece and probably my favorite twisty puzzle that I have ever seen. Bravo!

traiphum · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:01 am

the both are quite beautiful

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

C;mon, can;t you think of something original? geez, this is one of the worst I've seen....

Hugo Mak · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:41 am

Drewseph wrote:

C;mon, can;t you think of something original? geez, this is one of the worst I've seen....

C'mon, are you joking? :roll:

Thomas · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:49 am

Speechless...

Thomas

pirsquared · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:49 am

Hugo Mak wrote:

Drewseph wrote:

C;mon, can;t you think of something original? geez, this is one of the worst I've seen....

C'mon, are you joking? :roll:

That would be a definite "yes".

Awesome work, Jason!

-π (Eitan)

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

Wow. That's amazing!

Alex

lukeharry · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:16 am

Wow, too bad puzzle of the year nominations ended. I definitely think this one would have taken the cake. It looks amazing!

James Dylan · **Joined:** Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:44 pm

Love your puzzles

cooldayr · **Joined:** Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:09 am

Drewseph wrote:

C;mon, can;t you think of something original? geez, this is one of the worst I've seen....

WHAT!?!?!

I LOVE IT
every year the puzzles get bigger, better, and weirder
that makes me enjoy puzzles more and more

Hugo Mak · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:57 am

Weird??

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

they dont have a face for my jaw dropping this is pure awesomeness!

schuma · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:53 am

Remarkable! I didn't believe such thing can be made before today.

DragonCuber · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:37 pm **Location:** UK

With the "circo" prefix I thought you had created a Circle-Radiolarian and I would have been absolutely awe-struck (not to say that I'm not for htis though. wow.)

theVDude · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:07 pm

This is amazing. I saw it the other night but couldn't post, good job on this!

pirsquared · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:58 pm

Jason, does this puzzle have the problem of the corners being easy to turn on their own? If not, then would you mind sharing how to solve that issue?

Thanks. Keep those puzzles coming!

-pi (Eitan)

Julian · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:15 pm

Astonishing! Congratulations.

tamaness · **Joined:** Sun May 03, 2009 3:00 am

I've been wanting a face-turning Icosahedron, and that one looks beautiful. I look forward to seeing a video of it.

Sjoerd · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:50 pm

I have been waiting for this ever since the FTO came out, and there was just one platonic solid which poor faces didn't turn... But now it's here!

You had one more design, right? this one with center, if I recall correctly?
Is there a new one in the works which has het same face-cut-pattern as the FTO(so this one exactly without the tiny little edge-wings)?

JasonSmith · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:33 pm

Sjoerd wrote:

I have been waiting for this ever since the FTO came out, and there was just one platonic solid which poor faces didn't turn... But now it's here!

You had one more design, right? this one with center, if I recall correctly?
Is there a new one in the works which has het same face-cut-pattern as the FTO(so this one exactly without the tiny little edge-wings)?

Yes, suggested by both Adam Cowan and Oskar van Deventer , I'll be doing a version with FTO look-alike faces soon, I think. And then I'd like to continue my tour of face turning icosahedra further!

bhearn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:44 pm

io wrote:

Sjoerd wrote:

You had one more design, right? this one with center, if I recall correctly?
Is there a new one in the works which has het same face-cut-pattern as the FTO(so this one exactly without the tiny little edge-wings)?

Yes, suggested by both Adam Cowan and Oskar van Deventer , I'll be doing a version with FTO look-alike faces soon, I think.

I tried to design that one... it looked to me like the geometry didn't work out, that the face surfaces would interpenetrate. But I guess I was mistaken?

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

lukeharry wrote:

Wow, too bad puzzle of the year nominations ended. I definitely think this one would have taken the cake. It looks amazing!

Its on my list for 2010 puzzles- don't worry!

URodent · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:40 pm

Magnificent. :shock:

How's the turning stability of those little wings on the corners?

stardust4ever · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:03 pm

This is awesome great work! 8-)

The Face-Turning Icosahedron was for a long time the last remaining hurdle of the Face-Turning Platonic Solid puzzles. I'd bet that orienting/permuting the corners and edges will be an extreme challenge. Due to the sheer number of colored sides, a ten color pattern (opposites are the same) would most likely be better on the eyes, even if it introduces a parity into the mix.

Skewber · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:52 pm

Sjoerd wrote:

I have been waiting for this ever since the FTO came out, and there was just one platonic solid which poor faces didn't turn... But now it's here!

Has a face-turning rhombic dodecahedron been made?

ejisfun · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:33 pm

Beautiful puzzle Jason. :shock:

Skewber wrote:

Sjoerd wrote:

I have been waiting for this ever since the FTO came out, and there was just one platonic solid which poor faces didn't turn... But now it's here!

Has a face-turning rhombic dodecahedron been made?

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15341&hilit=rhombic+dodecahedron+eitan

URodent · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:42 pm

stardust4ever wrote:

Due to the sheer number of colored sides, a ten color pattern (opposites are the same) would most likely be better on the eyes, even if it introduces a parity into the mix.

Actually, from the pictures, it looks like Jason used a ten color pattern where pairs of corner adjacent sides are the same color. Perhaps he did this to avoid parity, apart from identical face pieces being swapped?

bhearn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:44 pm

URodent wrote:

Actually, from the pictures, it looks like Jason used a ten color pattern where pairs of corner adjacent sides are the same color. Perhaps he did this to avoid parity, apart from identical face pieces being swapped?

I think those colors are slightly different. I ordered 20 colors from Cubesmith for mine, if they're not distinct enough, I'll just use 10.

PepeLopez07 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:08 pm

Hugo Mak wrote:

I think it should look better in black plastic. :wink:

Call me nostalgic.. I tend to agree, but this one is truly amazing!!

Great work..

p.s. would still love to see what it would look like in black :wink:

bhearn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:44 pm

PepeLopez07 wrote:

p.s. would still love to see what it would look like in black :wink:

Just wait a couple more days.

Hugo Mak · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:19 pm

Now we all wait for your version.

bhearn · **Joined:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:44 pm

Hugo Mak wrote:

Now we all wait for your version.

Everything but the core and edges got here today; those still seem to be on their way to New Jersey. So far so good, except that it looks like the tiny offset edges will probably pop. Might need some more filleting with the dremel.

But I still want to see a video of Jason's!

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

bhearn wrote:

PepeLopez07 wrote:

p.s. would still love to see what it would look like in black :wink:

Just wait a couple more days.

Or much less time with photoshop. But more preciously by bhearn making one.

Scott Bedard · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:18 am

This is beautiful Jason! Great work!

Jason's Circo-Radiolarian +VIDEO (Face Turning Icosahedron)

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