cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/23562018
Mere days after photos of a 35x35 surfaced, Preston Alden has unveiled a 49x49:
It weighs 30 kg, stands 34 cm tall, and consists of 13,827 pieces. Every piece of the cube was 3D printed using PETG plastic (aside from the bolts and springs).
Congratulations to Preston on such an incredible achievement. I’ve never seen olzing on such a large puzzle!
More info on the twistypuzzles forum: twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39559
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is it even possible for a human to solve that?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Sure it is, it would just take a while. Beyond 6x6 or so, they don’t get more difficult, just more tedious.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How does it not get more difficult? Do the algorithms stay the same regardless of rows?
Grippler@feddit.dk 3 months ago
Why bother then?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The difficulty would come more in manipulating the individual layers, than the actual mental process of solving it.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I feel like this would be super fragile and internal structures bend a lot with twisting.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Solving it is easy.
It’s the scrambling thats the problem.