From ncramer@bbn.com Tue Feb 28 16:08:33 1995 Return-Path: Received: from LABS-N.BBN.COM by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA04677; Tue, 28 Feb 95 16:08:33 EST Message-Id: <9502282108.AA04677@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 16:00:25 EST From: Nichael Cramer To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Custom Cubes A couple of days back there was brief discussion of some custom-made cubes (e.g. all six sides the same color, etc). Just a couple of additional notes on this point: Some six or eight years ago MIT museum had a major exhibit of puzzles (I particularly remember the full-sized tangram tables). In the last room was a largish display case --the kind of thing your Grandmother displayed her China in-- filled with an assortment of custom cubes. For example, one that I remember was one done for Charles and Diane's wedding; pictures of HRHes on the various faces. (I've not been back to the Museum since, so I'm afraid I don't know the current status of these, or if they are still on display.) Likewise a few years back I had occassion to visit the rare books collection at Widener library. In the entrance-way there were several displays (Cotton Mather's Library, a complete set of Jane Austen first editions, that sort of thing). One shelf had a handful of cubes as "objets d'art": e.g. a pair of white cube (they looked like ivory, but surely not) with words written on the various faces. Don't recall the artist. Cheers Nichael