Message #1177

From: schuma <mananself@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tetrahedral prism {3,3}x{}, 3 layers solved
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:17:59 -0000

Congratulations! Nice work!

Yesterday after seeing you mentioned {3,3}x{}, I tried the 2-layer version immediately. For the 2-layer version, any automatic scramble freezes the program. So I have to manually scramble it. But all allowed scrambles are always trivial to solve.

Then I went on to see the 3-layer version. I found it not easy and I didn’t that ctrl-f work for this version. I should give it a try soon.

Nan

— In 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com, "Andrey" <andreyastrelin@…> wrote:
>
> It’s strange that one of the smallest 4D puzzles is not listed inMC4D puzzle list, so you have to generate it by "Invent my own" command (with line "{3,3}x{} 3").
> It took some time to find the most convenient views of the puzzle (view with two tetrahedrons has very different "shrink face" value than view with 4 prisms). You can’t rotate prism to 120 deg, so use sequence of two 180-deg turns instead. Not very easy…
> I started with sorting of pieces - top, middle and lower layers (like the solver who plays with 3^3 first time - build one single-color face :) ). Then there was orientation of middle layer pieces and then combining of 3rd layers parallel to prisms (just 3-cubie segments) with adjacent cubies. Next step was to put all corners in their place - and there were first two problems.
> First, middle layer was upside-down - and I had to flip all its pieces and save colors of top and bottom faces.
> Second, in the end of this stage I found one corner piece (pair of pieces, really) with wrong orientation! It is normal for pyraminx, but here you have to think how it can be :)
> When all corners ans 3Cs of middle layer were in place I found myself with 3 parallel pyraminxs and with the task to put all their 2Cs in place.
> One operation was enough for it… well, almost enough. At first I tried to move cubies to places in proper orientation, but soon found that I can’t remember setup twists that contain of pairs of prism flips… So I decided to position pieces first.
> Solving of 3 pyraminxs with the same sequence of 3-cycles went smoothly… until there were two transpositions on opposite faces (parity problem?). When I solved it there was one wrong oriented cubie on top side (and 3 on bottom) - but this time I could remember setup twist ))) So when I twisted 3 sets of 2 cubies, puzzle was almost solved.
> So this one is solvable from the scratch, without operations development. It doesn’t beat {3}x{3},3 :)
>
> Andrey
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