From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Wed Oct 16 22:51:41 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 WAA02682; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:51:41 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 01:49:55 +0200 From: Dik.Winter@cwi.nl Message-Id: <9610162349.AA04173=dik@bever.cwi.nl> To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu, pbeck@pica.army.mil Subject: Re: largest cube > I would like to revisit the question of > what is the largest (number of slices) > size cube that can be made. As I > recollect the center spindle mechanism > has been analyzed and the conclusion > was a 5x5x5. If I remember well the limit was not order 5 but 6, and not due to the mechanism but only because during turning the corner cubes will extend so much outside the cube that they are held by only 2 neighbours. *But* this holds only if your requirement is that all cubelets have the same size. When you allow cubelets to grow when going from the center you can get larger (although I think even in that case there will be a limit, right now I am too lazy to think about it even further). dik -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/