Great Moments In Masochism: The Petaminx
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
There are those amongst the human race who have a special, perverse love for the demonic invention of sculptor and architect Erno Rubik. These people are dangerous and you should keep both yourself and your loved ones away from them. They inhabit a world quite alien to ours, a desolate Abadon of half turns, slices, and pattern recognition.
Still, as unstable as these fans of Hungary’s Finger may be there are, apparently, truly degenerate individuals over whom the heinous and obscene siren song of six sides holds no sway. No, for people like this there is the Petaminx, a blasphemous dodecahedron featuring 975 moving parts, designed by Andrew Cormier who released the plans for his monstrous abomination onto the internet.
Now, an aspiring metagrobologist has gone and constructed one, which you can see demonstrated above. The video seems to end just before the very fabric of space-time is torn asunder, laying bare the horror beneath. No doubt the unwitting acolyte did not survive.
The Petaminx [YouTube] : Blame It On The Voices : MAKE : PuzzleForge
Categories: Gadgets, Horror, Lunatics, Madness, Puzzles
Posted at 12:49 pm on March 4, 2009
5 Comments -
Reminds me of that Lemarchand Box I have packed away somewhere. Had it for years but never solved the bloody thing. Maybe I’ll give it a try when I come home from work tonight, they say persistence pays off.
Comment by meatbagwtf — March 4, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
I love puzzle toys. One of the things I want most is a full set of happy cubes (www.happycube.biz) but at nearly $100 I can’t quite justify the purchase. But I love these kinds of things…
However…
I loathe Rubik’s Cubes. I’d spend hours on end trying to solve one and end up nearly throwing it at a wall in anger. The thing above, once I realized what it was, made me throw up in my mouth.
Comment by chiablo — March 4, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
just because it COULD be made
does not mean it SHOULD be made
i imagine that once it is properly mixed (which itself looks like a pain in the arse) it becomes unsolvable. well, in one lifetime, anyways.
and, yes, i’m sure it has lots of “solved” permutations that will Call Things Up.
Comment by haux — March 4, 2009 @ 5:12 pm
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Ok, so watching this video made my eyes bleed and made me feel like all the hope was sucked out of the world and Pinhead was coming for a visit.
What is wrong with people? I don’t even want to KNOW what kind of math is involved in figuring out how to move one of those little blocks (which is, btw, how a Rubik’s Cube works). There are some crazy ass folk out there…
Comment by Euphoria — March 25, 2009 @ 2:06 pm