Axisminx

Josh B · **Joined:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:19 pm

I can't come up with a good name for it, so I thought that everyone could help me. It's my first design to make that isn't a 3x3 mod, and it worked out well. Let me know what I should call it.

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ejisfun · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:21 pm

Well, I know everyone is going to say this, so let me be the first: It reminds me of an axis cube.

Great job!

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:22 pm

The Offminx?

AxisMinx?

A megaminx axis, hm.

MAXisminx

TO THE MAX!

David Calzone · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:36 pm

Great looking puzzle!!!
I suggest naming it anything as long it doesn't include Axis in the name. It has quickly become the most played out term in puzzle history!

Thomas · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:44 pm

Wow! It's absolutely beautiful.

Thomas

kolorblindartist · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:47 pm

FINALLY AN AXIS-ED MEGAMINX!!!! :shock:

This is amazing, great job! Alas...why can't every puzzle be mass produced...

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:56 pm

kolorblindartist wrote:

FINALLY AN AXIS-ED MEGAMINX!!!! :shock:

This is amazing, great job! Alas...why can't every puzzle be mass produced...

Because not everyone loves puzzles like we do.

DLitwin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:13 pm

Very, very nice.

I am curious: Was this completely 3D designed, hand built, or was it 3D designed pieces (edge, corner and center cap) on a megaminx core and centers?

Dave

davis4 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:07 am

MEGA-SLICE

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

Me too it looks too similar to an axis cube so... AXIS-MINX!

eye2eye · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:36 pm

RoboticFresca wrote:

The Offminx?

AxisMinx?

A megaminx axis, hm.

MAXisminx

TO THE MAX!

this looks REALLY cool maxaminx?

Bumrang · **Joined:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:38 pm **Location:** Here.

Megaxi. Megaminx + Axis cube.

Rob · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:43 pm

What about Maxis?

Josh B · **Joined:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:19 pm

DLitwin wrote:

Very, very nice.

I am curious: Was this completely 3D designed, hand built, or was it 3D designed pieces (edge, corner and center cap) on a megaminx core and centers?

Dave

I 3D designed it in solidworks around the PVCminx core and centers so that I would just have to cast the essential parts. The good news is that the pvcminx is pretty cheap and easy to get as apposed to casting a core and 12 centers. I was really worried that it wouldn't work right with it, but I realized that I could just get the center piece printed if all else failed. (Also, I finally mixed up my superman elemental puzzle and accidentally solved it about an hour later. I was too scared to mix it up in the first place, but my roommate got ahold of it and mixed it up throughly.)

Calzone wrote:

Great looking puzzle!!!
I suggest naming it anything as long it doesn't include Axis in the name. It has quickly become the most played out term in puzzle history!

Exactly! I just realized after finishing it that I have made nothing but "axised" puzzles in the past few months. :lol:

I really want to stray from that name even though that is technically what it is. I should have said that in my first post, seeing all the axis names now.

I promise that my next one won't be axised. :lol:

Thank you everyone else that likes it! I'm really glad that I can step out of 3x3 shapes a little bit. I will hopefully be able to make a black one soon. I just need to get ahold of a black megaminx in the meantime. Also, I've never solved a super megaminx, let alone this thing. It's ridiculous!

squabpuzzles · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:16 pm

Any in progress pics (specifically of it in the hexagonal dipyramidish phase)?

eye2eye · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:19 pm

squabpuzzles wrote:

Any in progress pics (specifically of it in the hexagonal dipyramidish phase)?

its custom printed

Arch Wolf · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:26 pm

Absolutely Stunning job on the mod. As for a name, the comopany that makes my dirtbike's tires, Maxxis, comes to mind. Perhaps maybe the Maxxis-minx? Also, even though this is the nerd in me coming out, how about the Uberminx?

Iranon · **Joined:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:59 pm

Wow! The pattern of cuts looks amazing. On the other hand, dear lord, in the last (scrambled) picture, I can barely even tell where the cutting planes are...

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

To bring up a different idea, it looks like it had the same tilt idea to it as Tony Fisher's Golden Cube.

It appears to only be in the dodecahedral shape when solved, as I concieve it. Why not have gold on every face and call it the Golden Minx?

RFP · **Joined:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:49 am

Megaxis ?
Awesome?
Beautiful?

:lol:

lukeharry · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:15 pm

Wow, an axis minx. This is wonderful and it looks beautiful. I am putting this up there in the same category as the hexaminx. It is that good.

Josh B · **Joined:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:19 pm

Thanks again. I'm really proud of it, although it is a pretty straightforward modification.

Here's what I've narrowed it down to:

Alliminx (axis vs. allies?)
Spindleminx
Twisted Dodecahedron (sounds a little too much like the twisted cube)
Offset Megaminx (suggested on youtube)
Revominx (revolved around an axis?)

Some are stupid, but I just want to break the "axis" trend. :lol:

MarkSS · **Joined:** Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:29 am **Location:** UK

We've had the Hexaminx so maybe Dodecaminx.

Fantastic.

Sjoerd · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:16 am

Very nice one! Looks absolutely stunning!
Out of those 5 names, I think Revominx is the best one.

Vadim · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:48 am

This is Mega-Mega awesome!
I love it so much!
Can't think of any more names, than the ones been suggested already.
Let us know what name you would choose.
Vadim

Vadim · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:50 am

For now I saved photos as Aximinx.

V

Josh B · **Joined:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:19 pm

I really like Dodecaminx. I'm going to change the thread title, but I'm not sure if this name has been used yet.

Thank you Mark! :mrgreen:

Retr0 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:31 pm

I like Axisminx.

Or Retr0minx :roll:

Seriously, it should definitely be called 'Axisminx' 2 'x's in 1 word!

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

I don't get the name. It's dodecahedron + megaminx right? Isn't a megaminx already a dodecahedron?

Alex

Sjoerd · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:14 pm

It´s just a cool sounding name for a cool looking puzzle. The name doesn´t have to make complete sense.

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

You should really do the Alliminx, as you said from before. The analogy to Axis vs Allies is pretty cool.

Aleksey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:24 pm

Very interesting mod, I like it! 8-)

I also tend to like the name Offminx. It's short and concise, and right to the point.

Synester · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:03 pm

Darn. I was hoping you would name it the chrisownsjoshathalominx

Jared · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:23 am

Beautiful work! Have you done a full solve? Do the strange shapes make it more difficult?

...Now that a megaminx has been "axised", who's going to work on "fishering" one?

metaknight2550 · **Joined:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:19 pm

I know you already have a name for this mod, but i'd call it the "Axis Dodecahedron"

Josh B · **Joined:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:19 pm

Jared wrote:

Beautiful work! Have you done a full solve? Do the strange shapes make it more difficult?

...Now that a megaminx has been "axised", who's going to work on "fishering" one?

I sure have and it is pretty difficult to solve. I have a fishered one drawn up as well. :wink:

It seems that everyone really wanted it to be called something with "Axis" in the title, but I'm afraid that I wanted to come up with an original name this time. :oops:

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:26 am

Josh B wrote:

It seems that everyone really wanted it to be called something with "Axis" in the title, but I'm afraid that I wanted to come up with an original name this time. :oops:

Where is the problem with Axisminx or the like? If you would call it "Nonsensminx", many people had to google everytime they see this term anywhere. There will be many more guys to know what is meant by Axisminx.
Give it a try: You now what Obelinx is? But you might know PentageonalTrapezohedronSkewb...

Another idea would be to name it Joshminx.

Pinoycuber27 · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:20 am

i hope, i didnt see this puzzle, cause its stunn me for about 15 seconds and i cant breath well... STUNNER!!!!! :shock:

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:57 pm

Why not just leave out all minx based names?

I say call it the Doubiously Diabolical Dodechahedron.

FORGET AXIS AND MINXES! RISE UP! REVOLUTION!

David Calzone · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:22 pm

Josh B wrote:

It seems that everyone really wanted it to be called something with "Axis" in the title, but I'm afraid that I wanted to come up with an original name this time. :oops:

I guess you changed your mind. :lol:

Josh B · **Joined:** Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:19 pm

I guess peer pressure got the best of me. I will remedy this by not making an axised puzzle next time so I won't have to worry about it at all. I will break the cycle. :!:

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

I'm sad I didn't get a mention (i'm kidding).

Looks great dude but you already knew my thoughts on it.

kolorblindartist · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:08 pm

Now what you need to do is make an icosaminx version! :twisted:

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:18 pm

kolorblindartist wrote:

Now what you need to do is make an icosaminx version! :twisted:

We can't risk it! He'll kill us all!

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