From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Jul 29 14:33:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: from sun30.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id OAA11052; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:33:27 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From chrono@ibm.net Tue Jul 29 13:43:28 1997 Message-Id: <33DE2A54.62F2@ibm.net> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:37:24 -0700 From: "Jin \"Time Traveler\" Kim" Reply-To: chrono@ibm.net Organization: The Fourth Dimension To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: 2^3 Reassembly References: Nicholas Bodley wrote: > The cubies are kept together by 12 "clips". These fit into the cutout > arcs; when you assemble the Cube, you put two cubies next to each other > (they touch) and fit this "clip" so that it keep s them together. To > install it, you move the clip away from the imaginary geometrical center > of the whole puzzle. > > As I recall them, the "clips" are essentially quadrants (1/4 circles). > They consist of two parallel planes with a gap between them; the sides of > the cubies fit into this gap. The parallel planes are joined at the inner > edges. Part of the problem is that the clips weren't all identically shaped. If all of the clips were shaped the same, then reassembly wouldn't be a problem. But because they ARE shape differently, there is a question of whether the position of one is important relative to the position of the others. -- Jin "Time Traveler" Kim chrono@ibm.net VGL Costa Mesa http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/alley/9895 http://www.slamsite.com