From cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Tue May 13 15:14:04 1997 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Received: from oolong.camellia.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oolong.camellia.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA03658; Tue, 13 May 1997 15:14:03 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@oolong.camellia.org Message-Id: <199705131902.UAA24724@mail.iol.ie> From: Goyra To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at moag.epilogue.com Subject: Re: Strange new Rubik puzzle in Java Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:03:49 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: David Singmaster Computing & Maths South Bank Univ > Adapting a cube to having a dodecahedral appearance was certainly considered > in the 1980s, thoguh I can't remember if anybody ever made them for sale This puzzle is depicted on page 335 of "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter, which has just come back into print. He says that it was in Meffert's catalogue way back then, called the "Pyraminx Ball" David Byrden