31 March 2007

Cube-in-Cube



The Cube-in-Cube is one of the few patterns that can be adapted to all orders of puzzle cubes: Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Revenge, Meffert's Master Cube, Rubik's Wahn, et cetera.

In fact, there are a variety of options for the higher order cubes. Should the smaller cube be 2x2 or 3x3? Or even 4x4 (on the 5x5)? Take your pick.

I used Eastsheen cubes for the 2x2x2, 4x4x4, and 5x5x5 in the illustration and a Famwealth 3x3x3 that had a similar color scheme on the red-yellow-blue faces. The colors on the 3x3 don't quite match on the reverse side, as shown below.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

could you give a list of moves to achieve the cube-in-cube? thanks!

Anonymous said...

i agree with the first comment, that would be awesome, thanks

Anonymous said...

on a 3x3 my algorithm is R2 F2 U2 R D2 L' B' U B' U B' U L D2 R on bigger cube to get a cube inside of a cube inside of a cube do that first and then do it with 2 layers then 3 and so on it is pretty cool