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Yoshimoto Cube Blows My Mind then Fries My Brain [Gadgets]
Gizmodo —
I have played this video again and again, trying to figure out what's going on here. I can't. My brain is fried. Yoshimoto Cube has fried my brain and it's not even 2009 yet. According to the description, the Yoshimoto Cube transforms into two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons. Which is a fancy way to say "the Yoshimoto Cube transforms your brain into pineapple jelly". [Reddit]
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Whoa, dude: Yoshimoto Cube
CrunchGear —
Whoa, dude. Slow down.
Is is actually a transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons. I drank Stella once. It was good. Whoa.
You can buy one at the MoMA store.
YouTube Video of the Week: Stellated Rhombic Dodecahedrons.
Tech Digest —
Okay. Pay attention. This is the transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from a cube, according the bloke in the video. I don't really know what that means, but that might be because I'm blinded by the power of geometry-based-awesomeness. It's also known as the ...
Fun with the Yoshimoto cube
Boing Boing —
Video demonstration of a variation of the Yoshimoto cube, invented in 1971. Link includes a video on how to make one yourself out of paper, as well as an introduction to the Banach-Tarski paradox ("a pea can be chopped up and reassembled into the Sun").
Made up of eight interconnected cubes, it’s capable of unfolding itself in a cyclic fashion. That means you could keep folding, or unfolding it, indefinitely.
In the toy Brocoum’s mom bought him, the cubes were also cut into two identical polyhedra, each capable of forming a Yoshimoto cube containing a hollow space ...
Yoshimoto Cube
bookofjoe —
"The transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from a cube." $55. [via Rocketboom Blog]
