十二阶魔方做出来了！！

yuy4399

I must confess that I've already calmed down to finally see it working, do you? Sorry for a long wait.

There are some black parts, it's just for test of solid dyeing in replacement of stickering which is not quite suitable for small facelets.


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Some background info


Someday in April this year when I was wandering in a local bookstore, an impressive puzzle caught my eyes firmly. It's a cube with hundreds of facelets, V7.

How did they make it? Filled up with wonders, I did a lot of searches when I was back in home. Finally, the patent of Mr. Verdes came into my sight. Can you imagine the feeling when I saw the file? Incredible! So much appreciations go to Mr. Verdes!

mf8 & TP are essentially two major forums when I was searching for related key words. With the information therein, I was able to catch a glimpse of the latest technologies behind those big assemblies as well as flushes of inspiring thoughts and comments. They simply became my daily readings, which finally led me to the 12x12x12 project.

The whole project starts from the well-known 'hidden layer' which I thought was unnecessary. Although I'm not explaining the detailed strategy to achieve a new mechanism(as most designers do), it is true that careful investigations of Mr. Verdes' file along with some other patent files were carried out. Huge thanks to Mr. Verdes as well as his excellent designs.

Another goal of this project is to explore the area of extra-high order cubes, esp popping & alignment issues. By 'extra-high order' I mean when layers increase above 10. Every intermediate rotational layer will contain more than 30 parts. If a small gap is allowed for each part, then there's a possibility that there can be a gap of 30 times larger than normal when the layer is squeezed in one direction.

The kick off decision was made by the fact that I saw very few attemps to make normal cubes of higher order in both of the forums. I didn't know why since there were so many odd shapes being tried out.

It has been more than 6 months since this 12th cube was designed. Although I prefer theoretical investigations, I felt it necessary to make it real. Well, "have to be made".

I love it.

Enjoy!

Leslie



Update 24/11/2009

Some statistics
1. Size: 10.2x10.2x10.2
2. Weight: 630g
3. Number of parts: 764

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Videos will be updated soon.
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Enjoy!

Leslie


Updated on 25/11/2009
Video links
I tried but still failed to upload video on youtube. Anyway here are two links(same content)
http://www.tudou.com/v/xV95T_863fY
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTM0MzAyMTAw.html

It was recorded using my notebook cam and edited using windows movie maker.

Hope you enjoy!

Leslie




来自http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15424
还有11阶http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15424

[ 本帖最后由 yuy4399 于 2009-11-29 00:17 编辑 ]

蒙特

真不知道高阶除了做噱头还有什么意义…个人认为…

lawlietou

早就有人发过贴了~~~

yangpuqi

LS有道理。。。这贴好像见过了

darksky

8阶还没有 12阶就先出现了......

dzdyaya

呵呵，我是打酱油的......

xiangping

感觉没有多大的意义了。呵呵

wwd_meng

好像看过视频
但是那个12阶好像超级难转

gglmms

主要就是显摆,吸引目光用的