Date: 31 DEC 1980 1740-PST From: WOODS at PARC-MAXC Subject: Re: Bigger & better cubes To: MERRITT at USC-ISIB, cube-lovers at MIT-MC In response to the message sent 31 Dec 1980 1651-PST from MERRITT@USC-ISIB And then of course there's the megacube, formed by taking a standard 3x3x3 cube and replacing each cubie with a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube. The idea would be that each megaface could be twisted as usual, but the megafacies (the faces of the smaller 3x3x3 cubes) could be twisted only if they were visible. (Otherwise all you really have is a collection of independent 3x3x3 cubes.) The orientation of the colors on all the microcubes is the same -- that is, the beast starts with all 81 microfacies on a given side being the same color. -- Don. -------