Grid Cube by OSKAR

Oskar · **Joined:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:03 pm

Hi Twisty Puzzle fans,

You may already have seen my H-Cube, which is a twisty puzzle with a fractal structure. With Grid Cube, I have gone one order up. Grid Cube is a fractal twisty puzzle constructed from connected 1x2x3's and 1x2x5's. It has a lot of dovetail connections to keep all parts together.

Watch the YouTube video.
Buy the puzzle at my Shapeways Shop.
Read more at the Shapeways Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 1.jpg [ 52.24 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 2.jpg [ 41.7 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 3.jpg [ 39.33 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 4.jpg [ 46.03 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 5.jpg [ 45.78 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 6.jpg [ 47.66 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 7.jpg [ 50.16 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 8.jpg [ 52.12 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 9.jpg [ 54.37 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

Attachment:

Grid Cube v2 - prototype - view 10.jpg [ 37.73 KiB | Viewed 2845 times ]

RedRoost80 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:21 am

nice build Oskar! as always you puzzles are magnificent

TomZ · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:22 am

Very nice! I like the idea. Now who will be the first to make a twisty Mandelbrot set?

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

Amazing puzzle. This is probably my favourite of all of your puzzles Oskar.

Alex

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:29 pm

Oskar, stop using fractals on twisty puzzles, you are confusing me!!!
(what a sublime build!)

:lol:

Pantazis

flambore · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:00 pm

Wow, that thing is crazy! nice design.

Luke · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:28 pm

It's so confusing! But such a clever idea.

merlintocs · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:43 pm

Awesome, Oskar! Thanks for sharing once again. 8-)

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

Very impressive. But I'm confused... one of the shots on Shapeways shows that the large, 5x5 rotation can go in 90° increments. Why doesn't that confuse the 2x3s and the 2x5s? Is it effectively bandaged in some fashion? I.e., after such a rotation, how would a corner piece know which way it was supposed to turn?

Or am I misunderstanding... from the initial configuration, the red face can turn as a 2x5 unit, but the green face can't, right?

Garrett · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:19 pm

gnarly

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Every one of your puzzles is truly amazing Oskar.

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

okay, most puzzles made remain inside the box or close to the boundaries.

Every single one of your puzzles are about 10km away from that box..... you're imagination is just TOO crazy! how do you think these up!?!?

kevinnguyen · **Joined:** Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:54 am **Location:** Viet Nam

SURPRISED!

PaulWozniak · **Joined:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:02 pm

Way to think outside the box!

And outside the cube, tetrahedron, dodecahedron....

Oskar · **Joined:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:03 pm

bhearn wrote:

Very impressive. But I'm confused... one of the shots on Shapeways shows that the large, 5x5 rotation can go in 90° increments. Why doesn't that confuse the 2x3s and the 2x5s? Is it effectively bandaged in some fashion? I.e., after such a rotation, how would a corner piece know which way it was supposed to turn?

Or am I misunderstanding... from the initial configuration, the red face can turn as a 2x5 unit, but the green face can't, right?

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your question. You are right, a 90° turn introduces blocking of side rotations. But it will still allow you to swap any of the 16 cubies that are next to a corner. And there is more sort-of bandaging. You have to turn the two 1x2x5 sides by 90° as a whole before you can turn the 1x2x3 sides as a whole.

Oskar

rugia · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:10 am

it is interesting, but it seems easy to break...

Oskar · **Joined:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:03 pm

Rugio,

You would be surprised how rugged 3D-printed nylon is.

Oskar

Jared · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:30 pm

Oskar, you should do a video that shows off how rugged it is.

GuitarSD · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:09 pm

Jared wrote:

Oskar, you should do a video that shows off how rugged it is.

Maybe a dropkick :lol:

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

I love these Fractal puzzles; they're completely different from the usual cuboid/platonic/archimedean solids we're all so use to seeing everyday. Great Job

elijah · **Joined:** Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:55 am **Location:** WA, USA

could the fractal idea be expanded to parts that were say 2x2x3s or 2x2x5s and has 2x2x1 "fractal turns"

what I mean by this is the same way this puzzle has parts that are 1x2x3s, 1x2x5s and has 1x2x1 "fractal turns"

traiphum · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:22 am

alway make amazing puzzles.

Grid Cube by OSKAR

Who is online