Comments on: It's Braque To Me

It's Braque To Me

Xurando — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:40:00 -0800

The Yoshimoto Cube. The cube transforms into two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons.

By: steef

steef — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:48:14 -0800

I was duly unimpressed until the video in the third link, at which point I turned a hard left straight into bewilderment. That's pretty neat!

By: zengargoyle

zengargoyle — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:12:32 -0800

I have one of the simple cube ones, picked up at a trade show. It has NASA pictures, and it is like a cat chasing a laser pointer. Hours of fun.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:18:07 -0800

I have one of these, but I can't find what its real product name is. I can only see the name "ENTEX" with a sort of smiley in a bullseye. When separated, one the sides has all red external faces when foldes as a hollow cube, one has red/yellow/blue faces. Both sides seem to have a red/blue/yellow bullseye pattern when folded as a star. I've always loved to watch the geometry change as it folds. It's a beautiful thing.

By: Lipstick Thespian

Lipstick Thespian — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:22:38 -0800

Oh YAH? Well, my cube transforms into a Battlestar Hypercar Attack Drone with special laser firing armature! except mine broke. Stupid extradimensional plastic assault Christmas.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:23:11 -0800

In origami.

By: amery

amery — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:32:54 -0800

Nice, SteelyDuran! That makes what's happening really clear.

By: device55

device55 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:38:05 -0800

*boggles*

By: zengargoyle

zengargoyle — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:41:40 -0800

Mine is "Toysmith 1997", but origami intrigues me.

By: Chocolate Pickle

Chocolate Pickle — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:47:06 -0800

I used to have one of those. It was a great fiddle toy!

By: DU

DU — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:56:52 -0800

It's perfectly easy to understand. You just have to realize that everything you were ever told about space and time is completely wrong.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:39 -0800

Thanks for the post, and extra points for the art school pun.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:32:02 -0800

YO DAWG I PUT A CUBE IN YOUR CUBE SO YOU CAN... oh never mind.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:56:24 -0800

Not to be confused with the Yamauchi Cube.

By: sammyo

sammyo — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:01:47 -0800

WANT

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:02:56 -0800

Wow, that's the most typos ever in any post I have ever made. *sigh* It's been a long year.

By: sammyo

sammyo — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:06:03 -0800

Yikes, the MOMA store has it for fifty bucks!

By: electricinca

electricinca — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:52:21 -0800

I used to have one of these as a kid but have no idea where the hell it is now. Probably chucked out with all my old crap when my parents sold up and moved out of our family home. I shall definitely be trying my hand at making the origami version (thanks SteelyDuran).

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:33:21 -0800

But can I use it to roll for hit points for my barbarian?

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:24:13 -0800

The drive-in restaurant chain Sonic used to give out the simple, cube-only version as kids meal toys a few years back. Their surfaces were printed with odd facts and charts, one for each face. I fear my experiences with them have desensitized (or acclimated?) me to the awesomeness of the Yoshimoto Cube. Though I can see how someone who hasn't played around with one would freak when it seemed like the dude manifested another cube out of thin air.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:17:42 -0800

The links in the FPP don't show the outer shell for the Yoshimoto Cube. This is another layer that goes around the cube, a kaleidocycle (a ring of tetrahedral pyramids) which itself can be folded into a cube of the same size as the Yoshimoto Cube. But if you fold the kaleidocycle into this shape (via) then there is a hole inside which neatly accommodates the Yoshimoto Cube.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:03:26 -0800

I had one of these as a kid. Teh awesome.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:26:55 -0800

Oh man.... fifty bucks... that feels like it's just hovering right on the event horizon of "things I really want to own" and "stupid shit I spent too much money on." argh.... i waaaant it.... mainly so it can sit on a shelf and when people are like oh hey what's this I can be all like THAT'S THE YOSHIMOTO CUBE OH MY GOD DON'T TOUCH IT

By: quaeler

quaeler — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:49:15 -0800

Wait, you mean there's a *third* dimension, and something called vol-ume? Now you've really blown my mind...