DDR's Jade Puzzle

DDR · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:26 am

333Cube mod
http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/ ... MTc2/v.swf

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otischeng · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:34 pm

Finally see DDR's new puzzle again! This is a very interesting 333MOD. I never seen this shape from a 333 before? Great Work DDR!

DLitwin · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:37 pm

Really nice hand work!

Dave

Tep · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:34 am **Location:** Thailand

Is this hand made?
If you don't post the pictures, I will not believe that it is hand made.
It's very beautiful.
Great.

Benf207 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:55 pm

Wow, fantastic job, It really looks amazing.

Ben

HeX · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:44 am

What a Clean build and awesome looking puzzle, I don't have any chance to use plasting sheenting for a mod. It's too hard for me to manipulate. I would be more happy if I can see the truncations for this puzzle.

Sigurd · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:51 am

After several years of modding, building and collecting I have yet to understand how to cut like this.
I would just love if you would share your technique.
do you simply sand down? Or do you use a saw? If you use a saw how to you know you are cutting straight? If you use sand paper how do you know that you sand down correctly? Do you sand to near goal and then correct?
It looks so clean, both the cuts and the final product.
Vey nice!

JeongEC · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:58 am

He have really amazing hand skills..
Amazing work as always!

This cube have 4 hexagon faces and 12 pentagon faces.
And this picture showed how he made this shape.

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Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:31 am

Amazing.
Does anybody know the solids name?
I can see that the pentagons are not regular.

Timur · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:58 am

Andreas Nortmann wrote:

Does anybody know the solids name?
I can see that the pentagons are not regular.

It is a Truncated Triakis Tetrahedron (the same solid that my Skyglobe puzzle has).

Coaster1235 · **Joined:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:25 pm **Location:** Finland

Really beautiful puzzle. I like it the most when it still was stickerless... amazing build quality.

I think the shape is the same as Timur's Skyglobe, which would make it a truncated triakis tetrahedron.
Edit: aww, sniped by Timur by 2 minutes

Burgo · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:13 pm

Just beautiful

Cheers,
Burgo.

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:53 am

Andreas Nortmann wrote:

I can see that the pentagons are not regular.

You can see that from the above images? Taking into account you are looking at 2D images with perspective... I don't how you could tell that without taking a ruler to the actual puzzle. Those pentagons look "close" to regular to me. I guess maybe you worked out the geometry from JeongEC's image.

Carl

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:18 am

wwwmwww wrote:

Andreas Nortmann wrote:

I can see that the pentagons are not regular.

You can see that from the above images? Taking into account you are looking at 2D images with perspective... I don't how you could tell that without taking a ruler to the actual puzzle. Those pentagons look "close" to regular to me. I guess maybe you worked out the geometry from JeongEC's image.

No. I just looked at it and said "This can't be regular". And the only solid with regular pentagons and hexagons I knew is archimedean which this wasn't. => Something had to be irregular here.

Luke · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:54 am

The shape is not a truncated triakis tetrahedron. For starters, that shape has 16 sides and this one has 14. The best way of describing this shape is that this is to a hexagonal prism as a dodecahedron is to a pentagonal prism. It has the same dodecahedral ring as a dodecahedron, but has a hexagonal face on top rather than a pentagon.

Actually, I think I was wrong.

Sweet puzzle! It looks so clean. I am very envious of people such as yourself who an produce such fantastic looking puzzles. Well done.

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