Drewseph's Starminx II

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

Here it is guys!

The Starminx II Video, the core made of the famous boulder that went after Indiana Jones himself!

This puzzle is 70mm per edge and weighs 1.13kg!

Strangely enough this puzzle can jumble 2 different ways as seen in the pictures and video.

I might re-upload though, youtube for some reason really made this crappy!

theVDude · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:13 pm

OH MY GOD

I WANT IT ALREADY!

katsmom · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:19 pm

Talk about a puzzle the size of a good PAPERWEIGHT :lol:

My little hands would never be able to hold much less turn that thing!

Muffet · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:27 pm

Mini-Petaminx? :mrgreen:

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

DEAR LORD! i think this would make a nice bubble wand

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:56 pm

That's no moon, it's a puzzle!

Start the tractor beams! It's pulling us in! :lol:

Anyway, Awesome mini petaminx! Did you fully print that or did you make molds from masters?

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

That mini petaminx comment someone made had to be a joke..... thats a full sized petaminx......

the one seen here

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:20 pm

I suppose we are not to know what the core is for just yet.

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

Hold your horses, I can only assemble it so quickly.....

Leslie Le · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:27 pm

Ah...[Censored, please see the rules!!] big!

Telling from the core, if layers rotate about axes, then we will probably have a corner turning *and* face turning dodecahedron. However I'm still wondering about the 9 holes around the tips of dodecahedron.

Drew, if it happens to be what i described, please don't blame me!

Leslie

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:28 pm

Okay, I'll be patient, I just love thinking of putting the puzzle together. It's fun until you get the the really higher order ones, it's still fun but it gets hard to keep it together while putting it together.

Puzzlemaster42 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:48 pm

You should see what it looks like from INSIDE!

(That is actually Drew working on the design, just to give a sense of scale)

JasonSmith · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:56 pm

Is that a puddle of silicone below the petaminx?? There's always a bigger fish.... :shock:

merlintocs · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:03 pm

What in the blue hell...?

coastercrazy10 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:24 pm

Um WAT. Looks like a giant wiffle ball.

Also, it appears to be icosahedral-based. The pattern seems to be placed such that there would be 20 of them evenly spaced. As for why the pattern is necessary i have no idea.

-CC10

monkeyman · **Joined:** Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:39 pm

Drewseph wrote:

Hold your horses, I can only assemble it so quickly.....

Is this going to be completed tonight?

Muffet · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:36 pm

monkeyman wrote:

Drewseph wrote:

Hold your horses, I can only assemble it so quickly.....

Is this going to be completed tonight?

I was wondering the same thing, its the only reason i am still on the computer :lol:

eye2eye · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:03 am

coastercrazy10 wrote:

Um WAT. Looks like a giant wiffle ball.

Also, it appears to be icosahedral-based. The pattern seems to be placed such that there would be 20 of them evenly spaced. As for why the pattern is necessary i have no idea.

-CC10

i still think it looks like the starminx

monkeyman · **Joined:** Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:39 pm

I think I figured it out! I am pretty sure it is this. http://users.skynet.be/gelatinbrain/Applets/Magic%20Polyhedra/dodeca_e1.htm

An Edge Turning Dodecahedron!!

I come to this conclusion by using Drew's hint in the The "hints of secret ideas" thread!!! :-)

.
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15506&hilit=hints

Quote:

an Indiana Jones sized puzzle which turns similar to another puzzle and looks identical to two of the same family of appearance.

So that is my verdict. Let's hope I get proved right. :mrgreen:

RyanZ · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:57 am

Pencil holder? :lol:

ndgamer4life · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:23 pm

....shut up......

thats not even real......

i mean.... what....

dino rhombic triacontahedron

drt? sorry, thats just what i want to get built next.... i cant wait to see it when its done though. i kinda hope this is a joke... i didnt know you could afford a crane to put that all together

Jhardman · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:28 am

I feel a little stupid for asking, but is each hole a turning axis?

-Jon

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:12 am

Wait.. wait...! If *that* is the core, then the actual puzzle would be...

:shock:

Pantazis

Aleh · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:20 am

kastellorizo wrote:

Wait.. wait...! If *that* is the core, then the actual puzzle would be...

big but not heavy, nice and amazing as all his puzzles. :wink:

Kapusta · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:17 am

Wow, Indy got chased be a pretty light boulder, huh? :lol:

Can't wait to see how this turns out.

DragonCuber · **Joined:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:37 pm **Location:** UK

It's some sort of corner and face turning dodecahedron, that's easily decipherable from the picture. But the 9 holes around each corner axis have me stumped.. (possibly room for magnets to hold the pieces in due to the shear size?

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

........................................................... :shock:

That's a pretty big core! :lol:

Alex

Smashy · **Joined:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:53 pm

I looked at it for a while, and all I could figure was a simultaneously corner, edge, and face-turning icosidodecahedron/truncated dodecahedron... both seem implausible. :V

Namegoeswhere · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:45 pm

monkeyman wrote:

I think I figured it out! I am pretty sure it is this. http://users.skynet.be/gelatinbrain/Applets/Magic%20Polyhedra/dodeca_e1.htm

An Edge Turning Dodecahedron!!

I come to this conclusion by using Drew's hint in the The "hints of secret ideas" thread!!! :-)

.
http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15506&hilit=hints

Quote:

an Indiana Jones sized puzzle which turns similar to another puzzle and looks identical to two of the same family of appearance.

So that is my verdict. Let's hope I get proved right. :mrgreen:

Based on the same things you have pointed out, it is this one.
http://users.skynet.be/gelatinbrain/App ... eca_v8.htm
Since the axis of turning seems to be in the mid of 3 centers(thus, on the corners)
Also it looks similar to the starminx and dino dodecahedron.
The one you posted shouldn't have such a complex mechanism anyway i think.

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

it is the equivalent of a little Chop in dodecahedron form. that is, a fully edge turning dodecahedron as monkeyman pointed out.... pictures eventually... I need to sticker the thing!

RedRoost80 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:09 am

that thing is going to be a godzilla to all the puzzles :lol:

!

funmonkey54 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:10 am

I would like to request a size comparison pic with a keychain cube upon completion.

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

Drew, get stickering, you need to get it in in time for puzzle of the year

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:56 pm

I can't wait to see the size of this beast!

Bram · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:50 pm

Drewseph wrote:

it is the equivalent of a little Chop in dodecahedron form. that is, a fully edge turning dodecahedron as monkeyman pointed out.... pictures eventually... I need to sticker the thing!

I think you mean that it's equivalent of the half chop/helicopter cube. The equivalent of the little chop would be quite a bit bigger!

greeneye · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:10 pm

that puzzle is gunna be huge!

pirsquared · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:13 pm

I love how we've almost filled a page with posts before the puzzle is even out!

I can't wait, Drew!

-π (Eitan)

RoboticFresca · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:29 pm

I just realized that Drew has not stickered his Petaminx. I can see his reasons why, but I feel slow for just realizing that :lol:

Arch Wolf · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:49 pm

Could it finally be that a Big Chop with a mechanical core is finally coming to existence?

pirsquared · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:56 pm

Arch Wolf wrote:

Could it finally be that a Big Chop with a mechanical core is finally coming to existence?

Nope. Try this post:

Bram wrote:

Drewseph wrote:

it is the equivalent of a little Chop in dodecahedron form. that is, a fully edge turning dodecahedron as monkeyman pointed out.... pictures eventually... I need to sticker the thing!

I think you mean that it's equivalent of the half chop/helicopter cube. The equivalent of the little chop would be quite a bit bigger!

-π (Eitan)

monkeyman · **Joined:** Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:39 pm

Well it isn't really a big chop exactly. It is more like a deep-cut helicopter dodecahedron.

The edge turns just so happen to resemble those of a 24 Cube.

I would be very much interested in seeing its potential to "jumble" or whatever the term is for what it might do.

greeneye · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:04 pm

if this isnt gunna be the biggest puzzle ever build... than what is?

Arch Wolf · **Posted:** Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:02 pm

pirsquared wrote:

Arch Wolf wrote:

Could it finally be that a Big Chop with a mechanical core is finally coming to existence?

Nope. Try this post:

Bram wrote:

Drewseph wrote:

it is the equivalent of a little Chop in dodecahedron form. that is, a fully edge turning dodecahedron as monkeyman pointed out.... pictures eventually... I need to sticker the thing!

I think you mean that it's equivalent of the half chop/helicopter cube. The equivalent of the little chop would be quite a bit bigger!

-π (Eitan)

Ahh...okay. I just woke up and was not running at full capacity. Gelatinbrain doesn't want to work with my Firefox for some reason, so I can't exactly go to the links :lol:

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

Keychain Cube is to Standard Cube as the Petaminx is to _____ :shock:

I am quite excited to see this.

-mal

Leslie Le · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:01 am

pirsquared wrote:

Arch Wolf wrote:

Could it finally be that a Big Chop with a mechanical core is finally coming to existence?

Nope. Try this post:

Bram wrote:

Drewseph wrote:

it is the equivalent of a little Chop in dodecahedron form. that is, a fully edge turning dodecahedron as monkeyman pointed out.... pictures eventually... I need to sticker the thing!

I think you mean that it's equivalent of the half chop/helicopter cube. The equivalent of the little chop would be quite a bit bigger!

-π (Eitan)

The phrase "equivalent of a little chop in dodecahedron form" made me think of big chop. Otherwise do you mean a helicopter dodecahedron? That looks like starminx but with different cuts.

But... with such a long time stickering, I'm again confused and can't wait! :shock:

Leslie

Namegoeswhere · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:45 pm

A mastermorphix is equivalent to a rubik's cube in a tetrahedron form.
So this is a shapemod of a little chop?

alaskajoe · **Joined:** Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:52 am

I think he really does mean what Oscar called the "big chop". Not just a shape transformation but really a deep cut edge turning dodecahedron.
But maybe it's just hope that makes me think so at this moment.

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

Merry Christmas!

leonid · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:08 am

Oh my god

pirsquared · **Posted:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:09 am

Wow. Just wow. Nice jumbling!

-pi (Eitan)

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