Rotoskewb by Timur

grigr

This puzzle was suggested to me by Werner Schachinger from Austria. He said that I could name it myself and I called it Rotoskewb. It is a Skewb (a little offset) whose faces have circles that may turn with their 6 segments. If you turn it like a normal Skewb, 3 circles rotate by 5/6 turn and 3 others exchange their segments. Of course, hexagon and 2 other parts of the face area always have the same color, being not connected physically.

The mechanism is obviously based of gears. Interesting, I did not have to design the gear layer - I just copied it from the Gear Pyraminx, because it works the same way that is needed for Rotoskewb. If you have a Gear Pyraminx, you can try to apply shift to 3 edge gears around one corner and you'll see how this puzzle works.
Turning is not that easy and smooth because slow movement applied to the outer layer is converted to faster movement of the gears and this lever law does not work in our favour - bigger force is needed.

demo video: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjg1NzY0MDQw.html

第四代面包超人

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bob424200

so great！！

Donald_LYC

Looks difficult

嘉芯饼干

英语一句没看懂，但是这个斜转看起来不错

高低手007

真的是太猛了。想有一个能速拧的超帅魔方。

CMPunk

out of my imagination

oyh

beautiful！！i like it

linkeyishere

Good Puzzle！

L08

又一新品了？！