From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Sat Jun 1 01:40:27 1996 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Received: from curry.epilogue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA08881 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 01:40:26 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 01:01:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicholas Bodley To: Wei-Hwa Huang Cc: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Another subscriber In-Reply-To: <4om779$aip@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 31 May 1996, Wei-Hwa Huang wrote: {Snips} > der Mouse writes: > >In my opinion mechanical designs for the 7 and above will have to be > >fundamentally different from those for the 6 and below, because that's > There's a really simple solution to this. Just don't make the 7 slices > evenly spaced. > -- > Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@cco.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ _____________________ Large corner cubies, and rectangular edge pieces to match, when seen face-on, right? Has anyone worked out the innards? Perhaps a further extension of the scheme used for the 5^3? (If so, the retaining "foot" on a corner cubie would have a truly wondrous shape! The "foot" of a 5^3 is quite impressive.) I should have read this earlier; it might have saved bitspace from my mad electronic/mechanical scheme! :) It would also be quieter... My best to all, NB Nicholas Bodley Autodidact & Polymath |*| Keep smiling! It makes | Waltham, Mass. Electronic Technician |*| people wonder what | nbodley@tiac.net Amateur musician |*| you have been up to. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------*