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From: der Mouse  <mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re:  ultimate cube

> my description of ["ultimate" cube's] coloring is:

> still has six solid colors
> if we visualize a standard cube as a box with 6 stickers, 1 to each
> flat face the the ultimate cube has these 6 stickers translated and
> rotated so that 4 of these squares come together on a center cubie
> with the diagonal of each square laying along the edge of the cube.

Hm, there are 12 edges on a cube.  That leaves half of them unaccounted
for.  What do they get?  (Note that you also have to shrink the 6
stickers, beacuse the face diagonal is longer than an edge.)

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu