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From: Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@tiac.net>
To: Jerry Bryan <jbryan@pstcc.cc.tn.us>
Cc: "Jorge E. Jaramillo" <kingeorge@rocketmail.com>,
        cube <Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Re : The Cylinder
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Uwe Meffert had a printed color catalogue around 1985 that showed some
very interesting moving-piece "group theory" puzzles (is that a proper
term?). Although I have a copy safely stashed somewhere, I don't know
where.

I'm just about sure that one was a cylinder, possibly in three layers
like layer cake; it also, iirc, had maybe three more "cutting planes"
that were spherical sectors bounded by the cylinder. Rotating the pieces
would exchange top and bottom.


|*  Nicholas Bodley   *|*  Electronic Technician {*} Autodidact & Polymath
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