The concept of the Sprout Cube applied to a Rhombic Dodecahedron.

• Inventor: Diogo Sousa
• Mechanism: Jumbling only axis system (other)
• Patents: Unknown
• Producer: 3D printing service
• Year: 2019
• Original Price: $0.00 USD
• Current Price: No Data

This puzzle takes the concept of the Sprout Cube (and the Sprout Cube Unbandaged, and the Sprout Dodecahedron) and applies it to a Rhombic Dodecahedron. The puzzle has a total of 32 axes:
- 8 with 3-fold symmetry at the 3-fold corners
- 24 jumbling axes at an offset position along the edges.
The design of the puzzle is entirely screwless, like the designers other Sprout puzzles.

Interestingly, this puzzle started out as an attempt to apply only the aesthetics of the Sprout Cube to a Rhombic Dodecahedron, not the concept. The designer believed it was impossible to translate the positions of the axes from the Cube to the Rhombic Dodecahedron in a "mathematically" rigorous way. Diogo Sousa printed it, presented it at DCD 2019 and played with it for months and very recently realized that it was in fact a direct translation of the concept, just not in the way he had originally intended.
The geometry of the Wildflower can be thought of as a face turning Tetrakis Cuboctahedron.

Edge length: 40 mm
Weight: 56 grams

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