shim's Skyglobe (Timur Evbatyrov)

grigr

This shape is called Truncated Triakis Tetrahedron and is one of the near-miss Johnson solids (the pentagonal faces are slightly irregular).

Similarly to Constellation Six, this puzzle had to be fudged too, but this time the laws of geometry were on my side and the angle of deviation turned to be only 2.4° (in Constellation Six 5.4°), so the fudging is very slight and almost not noticeable. It was even possible to place regular pentagons in the centers.

Skyglobe is a higher (order?) of Constellation Six. Not in the usual sense of more parallel cutting layers, but with higher number of axes - in the same sense like Magic Octahedron is related to Pyraminx, or Megaminx to 3x3x3 cube.

I decided to make this one with 6 colors instead of 12 to halve the nightmare of solving it. The colors are arranged so that each of the 4 hexagons neighbors upon all 6 colors.

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happyangel888

又一新奇魔方。  一下子没看明白结构！

耗子哥哥

好像是四轴变形吧？估计每个五角星的处理会带有一些难度。

aadxd

这个结构很特异啊，观察下

野 子

还是小，难道3d打印就不能做的大一点么

小七阶

一天一个，3D打印还真有效率啊，哈哈

wyy1998

结构真是挺复杂，不过我感觉其中有不少分割层不能旋转吧？

Dan2010

It is in the shape of Truncated triakis tetrahedron,like the Jade Puzzle!