Mosaic Block by OSKAR

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

Hi Twisty Puzzles fans,

Mosaic Block is a twisty puzzle with a novel geometry, discovered by Anthony Villaveiran. Unlike classical twisty puzzles, here the axes do not go through the same point. As a consequence, some pieces can shift position after some turns. Several people have contributed to the design of this puzzle in a discussion on the Twisty Puzzles Forum.

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Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

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Luke · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:13 am

My new favourite puzzle from you :lol:

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This is the puzzle embodiment of epicness at its finest.

Drake · **Joined:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:48 pm **Location:** Canada

Massive

, very cool, I like it :wink:

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X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

Drake wrote:

Massive

, very cool, I like it :wink:

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actually I thought it would be bigger :wink:

awesome job.

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

This puzzle looks fantastic and its great to see it finally take physical form.

stardust4ever · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:55 pm

Sweet! You finally made one. I remember avidly reading the old topics discussing the corner-turning cuboids...
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20686

Does it rotate at different depths, or three layers deep only?

GuiltyBystander · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:16 pm

Awesome! It's been made. That was such a fun thread. This puzzle is incredibly complicated. It's not the most complicated one in the thread (for it's size) but it's a great example to show the concept. Here's a couple pics showing the oribits of the pieces.

One thing most people won't realize is that Oskar can easily create similar variations and only need to redesign the core. I call this puzzle the 1x2x3 version because of the overlaps. Just by redesigning the core and reusing the other pieces, he can make 2x2x3 and 2x3x3 which both have some monster orbits too.

stardust4ever wrote:

Does it rotate at different depths, or three layers deep only?

Only 3 layers.

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

GuiltyBystander wrote:

One thing most people won't realize is that Oskar can easily create similar variations and only need to redesign the core.

Landon,

I did not realize that! But yes, you are right, only the core needs to be swapped. So, how many non-trivial variations are there?

Oskar

Mister Kibur73 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:06 am

I have no words but a myriad of feelings.
It's Fantastic!

GuiltyBystander · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:58 am

Oskar wrote:

GuiltyBystander wrote:

One thing most people won't realize is that Oskar can easily create similar variations and only need to redesign the core.

I did not realize that! But yes, you are right, only the core needs to be swapped. So, how many non-trivial variations are there?

Credit goes to Carl for figuring this out. Here's the list of puzzles you can make.
1x1x1 = 2x2x2 = 3x3x3, These are all the same, just different amounts of virtual bandaging.
1x1x2 = 1x1x3
1x2x2 = 1x3x3
1x2x3
2x2x3
2x3x3
Here's some a pic I did of the piece orbits on the last 2.

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:36 pm

GuiltyBystander wrote:

Credit goes to Carl for figuring this out.

Thanks.

GuiltyBystander wrote:

Here's the list of puzzles you can make.
1x1x1 = 2x2x2 = 3x3x3, These are all the same, just different amounts of virtual bandaging.

He's already made this one.
It is the Redi Cube.

GuiltyBystander wrote:

1x1x2 = 1x1x3
1x2x2 = 1x3x3

These 2 would be best made with just 2 edge pieces moving with the corners but yes you can make an equivalent puzzle with these pieces which has 3 edges moving.

GuiltyBystander wrote:

1x2x3
2x2x3
2x3x3

These are the 3 which would be best suited to be made with these pieces. You've made the 1x2x3 so that leaves the 2x2x3 and the 2x3x3 both of which would have fewer pieces then your 1x2x3 so you could just offer 2 new cores to those that purchase the 1x2x3 and they'd be able to build all 3.

And some time ago Oskar sent be a sneak peak of 3 puzzles he was working on. This was 1 of them. I'm very eager to see the other two in action as well.

Carl

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

I'm very happy to see this thing in motion. Thank you for giving me credit for the idea. It looks quite smooth to turn considering how many pieces move at once. Is it squishy? I'm assuming it's not to judging by the turning quality.

Keegan · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:54 pm

wwwmwww wrote:

And some time ago Oskar sent be a sneak peak of 3 puzzles he was working on. This was 1 of them. I'm very eager to see the other two in action as well.
Carl

I bet the middle one is Oskar's Bubble block!

perfredlund · **Joined:** Fri May 06, 2005 10:13 am **Location:** Norway

I'd love to experiment with short commutators on this one. Hoping to achieve easy edge and centers algorithms 8-)

Per

schuma · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:16 pm

Nice! I remember the discussion about these cuboids, and Oskar you made it real!

Jorbs3210 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:58 pm

Keegan wrote:

wwwmwww wrote:

And some time ago Oskar sent be a sneak peak of 3 puzzles he was working on. This was 1 of them. I'm very eager to see the other two in action as well.
Carl

I bet the middle one is Oskar's Bubble block!

I bet the last one is the Hexagonish Block!

Jhahoua · **Joined:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:58 pm **Location:** Earth,

Jorbs3210 wrote:

I bet the last one is the Hexagonish Block!

Hmm I wonder how you know that?

viewtopic.php?f=15&p=261447#p261447

Jorbs3210 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:24 pm

Jhahoua wrote:

Jorbs3210 wrote:

I bet the last one is the Hexagonish Block!

Hmm I wonder how you know that?

viewtopic.php?f=15&p=261447#p261447

I posted before I knew that that was posted. I WAS STILL RIGHT!

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