Pyraminx Christmas and Hanukkah

This is a chance color scheme that appeared while I was toying with Meffert's 25th Anniversary Edition Metallized Pyriaminx. When the colors are permuted as shown the red-green sides suggest a Christmas color scheme while the gold-blue sides (roughly) suggest a Hanukkah color scheme.

The color scheme isn't a perfect match, but it's powerfully suggestive when holding the puzzle solved this way.

Pyraminx Tri-color Clover

There are really four colors on each side, a "background" color and three differently colored flower petals. Yeah, it's abstract.

This is closely related to the colors you'd get if you started with a solved Pyraminx and just rotated each of the tips clockwise by 1 turn. But it's a nice prelude to my next post.

Pryaminx Gale Warning

In coastal areas you'll sometimes see a Gale Warning signal, a pair of triangular red pennants flying one above the other as illustrated at right.

This pattern simulates the gale warning three times on each side in three different colors. It's an imperfect imitation, but the pattern itself is interesting because it pairs a mobile edge piece with a non-mobile tip piece without tying them to the immobile center piece between them. (Like the tips, the center pieces can only rotate around the corner they're connected to.)

Pyraminx Triquetra

There are relatively few patterns for Pyraminx due to its mechanical constraints. In this pattern each side has an identical 3-color triquetra in four different color combinations. It's a good academic exercise for the longtime Pyraminx fan who wants to try something different from the basic "solve."

This arrangement demonstrates that the corner pieces can be fully integrated into a pattern despite their limited mobility.