Recently I saw these puzzles created by Alexandr Abalikhin http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/pdb-search.cgi?&act=inv&key=784&off=0 http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/pdb-search.cgi?&act=inv&key=784&off=15 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUyPm2UVtP_GQloD4U7BVeQ The puzzles with names including fourcylinder, sixcylinder, http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&p=361084#p361084 These puzzles are shape mods. But the shapes are very The intersection of three orthogonal cylinders is well known http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=5346 Then he extended the surfaces of the cyli nders, until two http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=5605 You can think of the new shape as the region contained by at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_stellation_of_rhombic_dodecahedron And Alexandr created stellations of intersections of more I searched online, and only found pictures of the union or http://paulbourke.net/geometry/cylinders/ I haven't found anything about their stellations. Have http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&p=361084#p361084 How many such shapes are out there? Have you guys seen anything like this?
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I've not examined these very closely, but to me they look more like unions of intersections than stellations of intersections. As you suggested, both views may be correct though it seems more natural for me to see this approach as starting with a symmetric set of intersecting cylinders and unioning all possible intersections of N of them. For example, the 6-cylinder Magaminx
This does seem like a very clever idea and may even extend nicely into higher dimensions.
-Melinda
On 2/20/2017 12:12 PM, mananself@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/pdb-search.cgi?&act=inv&key=784&off=15
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> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUyPm2UVtP_GQloD4U7BVeQ
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> The puzzles with names including fourcylinder, sixcylinder, tricylinder intrigued me. Recently he constructed tencylinder puzzles:
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> These puzzles are shape mods. But the shapes are very interesting. I consider them as different levels of stellation of the intersection of cylinders.
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> The intersection of three orthogonal cylinders is well known and is a Steinmetz Solid. He made this puzzle based on it:
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> Then he extended the surfaces of the cyli nders, until two meet, to get this shape:
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> You can think of the new shape as the region contained by at least two of the three cylinders. If you think of the original intersection as a "curvy" rhombic dodecahedron, then the new shape is a "curvy" stellated rhombic dodecahedron:
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> I haven't found anything about their stellations. Have mathematicians studied them? Are the 11 shapes in thi s page a complete enumeration of the stellations of 10 cylinders arranged in this manner?
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> http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&p=361084#p361084
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I've not examined these very closely, but to me they look more like
unions of intersections than stellations of intersections. As you
suggested, both views may be correct though it seems more natural
for me to see this approach as starting with a symmetric set of
intersecting cylinders and unioning all possible intersections of N
of them. For example, the
Magaminx is the union of all possible triplets of cylinders (6
choose 3). This
2x2x2 is the union of all pairs of 3 (3 choose 2)., whereas
one is 3 choose 3. Twists are always around one cylinder. For
10 cylinders, that doesn't add up to 11 choices though. Maybe it's
every possible fully-symmetric way to choose 3, 4, or 5 cylinders
out of 10?
This does seem like a very clever idea and may even extend nicely
into higher dimensions.
-Melinda
(twistypuzzles ID: TER)
tricylinder intrigued me. Recently he constructed tencylinder
puzzles:
interesting. I consider them as different levels of stellation
of the intersection of cylinders.
and is a Steinmetz Solid. He made this puzzle based on it:
meet, to get this shape:
least two of the three cylinders. If you think of the original
intersection as a "curvy" rhombic dodecahedron, then the new
shape is a "curvy" stellated rhombic dodecahedron:
cylinders. I can see some corresponding "flat"
stellated/compound polyhedra. But the curvy shapes are neat
because one can construct them just out of cylinders.
intersection of cylinders, such as this page:
mathematicians studied them? Are the 11 shapes in thi s page a
complete enumeration of the stellations of 10 cylinders arranged
in this manner?
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