Octahedron Snow Angels

This shape was inspired by a traditional snow angel.

As usual, the design is somewhat abstract. But when working with a slate of nine triangles any patterns has got to be pretty abstract.

Broken Python

On the 4x4 this pattern looks a lot like a standard "python" pattern, except that the pattern has a beginning and an end instead of being a loop. On a 5x5 it's a little more obvious that the pattern itself IS a type of loop.

It's constructed like a standard python, but the pieces on one edge (the purple-white edge in this example) are swapped around to break the pattern.

5x5 Tropical Petals

This pattern occurred just by chance during my holiday in Hawaii. An Eastsheen cube naturally forms two groups of colors that look tropical: a red-yellow-blue scheme reminiscent of a tropical Macaw, and a white-purple-green scheme like an orchid.

The pattern itself is a variant of a standard snake, albeit with several modifications. The pictures were takent near Kona, Hawaii.

5x5 Grecian Urn 1

This pattern features two strings, one which weaves on-and-off the top of the cube and the other weaves on-and-off the bottom.

The picture doesn't make it entirely clear, so the schematic is shown at right.

Octahedron Tri-color Clover

The Magic Octahedron completes the set of Tri-color Clover patterns.

There are several different ways the pattern could be achieved on the Octahedron. This one uses opposite-face colors at each of the corners, equivalent to turning each of the corners one-half turn. Because there are eight corners, it can also be done by the equivalent of turned each corner a quarter turn.

Mastermorphix Tri-color Clover

Because of its triangular shape, it seems natural to re-create Pyraminx patterns on the Mastermorphix. For example, this is a fairly accurate imitation of the Pyraminx's Tri-color Clover.

This pattern can also be created on the Magic Octahedron and Tutt's Icosaminx.

This pattern doesn't exploit the shape-changing capabilities of the Mastermorphix, but I'm working my way up to that!

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.