judochiou625's "Dodecahedron in a Cube"

judochiou625 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:49 am **Location:** Taiwan

Hello,everyone.
I have finished this mod for a while.
This is a new method to mod. I think.
Hope you would like it.

Design idea: Help people easy to differentiate the shape.

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katsmom · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:51 am

Now THAT is cool!

merlintocs · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:53 am

Wow, that is really, really cool. Nicely done.

gabrielmpf · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:55 am

WOW!!!

That is absolutely amazing! Very original.
Congratulations for an awesome work :wink:

ENCuber · **Joined:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:56 am

How in the world did you do that :shock:

That is so awesome.

Katja · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:44 am

True genius. I like it a lot!

CrystJig · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:24 am **Location:** Vietnam

it is absolutely awesome !, I really like it !

Sharon · **Joined:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:25 pm **Location:** Israel

Very nice Idea, and well executed.

What about a video ?

RyanA · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:04 am

Wow, that is a truly amazing puzzle. Congratulations

Ryan

Konrad · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:14 am

Very, very nice! Well done and a really cute idea

Zhewei · **Joined:** Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:38 pm

How did you polish it to this clarity?! Amazing!

malevolant · **Joined:** Thu May 14, 2009 9:58 am

Holy ****! I love it! My jaw literally dropped to the floor

BN · **Joined:** Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:35 am

Now you must do an axis cube in a cube O:
Very amazingly done.

mizzle576 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:34 am

Beautiful! Now there is no need for replacement stickers. :lol:

Derek Tolley · **Joined:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:22 pm

That is awesome!!!!

I'd like to see a megaminx inside a hexaminx. 8-)

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

Wow, this thing is so fantastic, we really need to see more of these. This is now possibly my most desired puzzle.

Alex

Luke · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:29 pm

Phenominal! Looks great! Well done.

pirsquared · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:26 pm

That is just incredible! What a great idea!

-π (Eitan)

Monkey-Claw · **Joined:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:20 pm

No you didn't :O

Garrett · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:56 pm

Wow, simply amazing. I think someone did something opposite with a Mental Block once - by building up the shape with lexan, you could see the inner Skewb as well as the Mental Block shape. This concept is REALLY cool, and I love how perfectly it matches your Hexaminx in size. Great job!

Konrad · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:59 pm

Monkey-Claw wrote:

No you didn't :O

???? What does this mean ????

ulmboy556 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:46 pm **Location:** PA, USA

this is probably one of the best concepts this forum has seen in a while. It really has potential with a lot of other puzzles. great work.

Sjoerd · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:10 pm

This idea opens the road for a lot of new cool concepts. Trajbers Octahedron, Kite Skewb, pyramorphix, axis cube.
Or even more difficult: Golden cube, Morphegg (3x3 egg), (pillowed) mastermorhpix, or the Darth Maul 2x2 head!

The breaking light makes it so very cool...

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

Simply amazing! I would never have thought of that!

Sigurd · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:21 pm

thats a brilliant idea! I simply LOVE it! Thats a whole new world of multiple solution puzzles that opens up! So artistic and also appealing to mass production! How about even going one level further??? :twisted:

GuiltyBystander · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:23 pm

lol, that's awesome. It's like a shape mod but not.

Can you you explain how you made it?

Konrad · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:34 pm

Is there any chance to get this mass-produced?
Maybe, you should contact Uwe Meffert and quote the many admiring voices here?

Luke · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:36 pm

That is a great idea, Konsassen. I would most certainly back you up. This has so much potential for so many of Uwe's puzzles. Ask him, seriously.

KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

Beautiful, simply stunning. I love how the refracted light breaks up the colours and shapes of the scrambled puzzle in the last two pics. There is something completely unique about this (and also Heiowge's Mirror Borg) that takes twisty puzzles into a completely different world of abstract art that is so original, aesthetic and ... beautiful. It reminds me of a line in the movie:

American Beauty wrote:

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

Luke · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:48 pm

I would also like to see the opposite to this. A Rubik's Cube, with a trasparent dodecahedron around it.

Thomas · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:48 pm

That is some novel idea!

Thomas

Door · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:51 pm

Wow thats really cool!!

konsassen wrote:

Monkey-Claw wrote:

No you didn't :O

???? What does this mean ????

I think he means that it is so good that it is unbelievable.

-Mark-

Sigurd · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:56 pm

Door wrote:

Wow thats really cool!!

konsassen wrote:

Monkey-Claw wrote:

No you didn't :O

???? What does this mean ????

I think he means that it is so good that it is unbelievable.

-Mark-

maybe Monkey claw meant thay he had the idea first?? :twisted:

Konrad · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:11 pm

Doubleyou wrote:

Door wrote:

Wow thats really cool!!

I think he means that it is so good that it is unbelievable.

-Mark-

maybe Monkey claw meant thay he had the idea first?? :twisted:

"No you didn't :O" is a phrase we non-native speakers do not know. I've got an explanation from APJ that is consistent with Mark's explanation above.

And YES, this is so good that is ubelievable!!!!

Jared · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:43 pm

Oh wow! It's gorgeous!

Did you start with a pre-made dodecahedron, or did you make the dodecahedron by hand too?

jabeck · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:54 pm

Completely awesome! I have to know, what is the clear material. Was it cast, or just made in a similar fashion to plastic sheeting? Either way - love it!

lukeharry · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:45 pm

Wow, this is epic. this is very creative.

SaiyanKirby · **Joined:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:18 pm **Location:** MA, USA

I've been waiting for someone to do with with a Hex Dipyramid! Dodecahedron works too though, AWESOME job! Exactly how I imagined it would look with the dipyramid!

Steveo · **Joined:** Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:37 pm **Location:** Canada

Beautiful! This is art!

eye2eye · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:15 pm

This is GREAT!
i think a skewb ultimate version is being begged to be made.

Chilen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:28 pm

It's really beautiful.
Did you make 2 cubes,one is transparent and one is semitransparent?

gingervergo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:23 pm

This is really great! The execution is amazing. I would love to see a bunch of these made as "teaching tools" to show shape mods on different puzzles!

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:48 am

Although it is not presenting a new mathematical challenge, it surely
is an elegant looking super 3x3x3. Its appearance certainly provides
something fresh which could lead to more hybrid-transparent variations.

gingervergo wrote:

This is really great! The execution is amazing.
I would love to see a bunch of these made as "teaching tools" to show
shape mods on different puzzles!

Now this is an excellent suggestion for this excellent artistic looking puzzle.

Pantazis

Sigurd · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:07 am

alright, I am going to ask this question: How did you actually do this? Did you have solid cubes and cut into those to fit the pieces inside? Or did you pour transulent resin into a cube shaped mold, with the pieces inside as well? And how well do you expect those pieces to last? If the majority of the piece are attached to the sticker area, then I suspect they could come apart somewhat easily.
please comment!

Owen · **Joined:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:53 am

I love it! I've always wanted a clear puzzle, with something in it, but I never thought about putting another puzzle it it!

Skarabajo · **Joined:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:58 pm

Wow, what a great idea! Truly beautiful geometric art! Kudos!

A couple of questions: Are the pieces encased in acrylic resin? Were the sides of the pieces sanded beforehand so that the acrylic resin would completely surround the cubies as indicated by the first picture?

Skarabajo

RedRoost80 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:41 am

wow! what a creative idea! Now you'll never have to replace the stickers!

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

Incredible one of a kind idea and possibly the most beautiful puzzle I've ever seen. Great job!

Rob · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:26 pm

Very nice!

Here is a link to the transparent Mental Block:
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8331

Mindstormscreator · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:13 pm

Amazing.

Question: How did you manage to "glue on" the translucent pieces without it making the stickers on the inside look terrible?

Again, really awesome puzzle, I like the idea of using it for demonstration purposes for shape mods.

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