Steemit Challenge Season 29 Application 🧊 Cubies for All 🎲✂️ Net of a tetracube📦
Hello everyone! Congratulations to all on the announcement of Season 29. I'm glad to submit my application for consideration once again and hope to open up something new for those interested.
I propose we dive into the distant pre-internet and even pre-computer era. Nowadays, it's hard to imagine what people did without this modern technological revolution. Yet, paper was invented thousands of years ago...))
In one book with various puzzles—not strictly mathematical—there was an article about cubes. They fascinated me so much that I want to share them with you. In these lessons, we will make the necessary figures together. These figures are like an alphabet from which more complex objects can be formed. Three-dimensional figures made from cubes will at the very least attract attention with their mysterious appearance as an interior element if placed on a table or bookshelf, and at most—they will be a puzzle to rack your brains over. The well-known Rubik's Cube can be a puzzle or a souvenir sitting on a shelf. Our figures are analogous but more mysterious.
Of course, nowadays there are 3D printers—you can print anything you want; you can make them from wood; the simplest way is to buy 27 ordinary cubes and glue all these parts together—the main thing is to make these seven pieces. Back in my school years, I chose the simplest and most accessible material for myself—ordinary paper. I invented the nets for the necessary cubes and glued them together myself.
Since the main theme is nets, I will give preference in my assessment to works featuring nets. However, the equally important goal is to create the necessary 7 figures from cubes. You can make them any way you like—I won't limit your creativity.
Cubies for All
Approximate schedule for 6 weeks:
Net of a tetracube (nets are just a preference; the main goal is to make the necessary figures from cubes).
Week 1
Net of a regular cube. A sort of test to see what and how you will use to create the figures we need. The result should be a regular cube.
Week 2
Next, we'll make the two simplest figures. An L-shape: one two cubes tall, the other three cubes tall. Their nets will be almost similar.
Week 3
Two more figures, somewhat similar to the previous ones, mainly because they are still flat. One resembles the letter T with a short stem, and the other is like a zigzag or the number 4.
Week 4
This time, there will be one figure. It resembles one of the first ones but is more complex because it is no longer a flat shape.
Week 5
These two figures are perhaps the most difficult – but since there are two, they can be done in one go. They are mirror opposites of each other, meaning once you invent a net for one, you can mirror it to make the other.
Week 6
We now have all the necessary 7 pieces. Those who joined at the last minute can make them using the drawings from others' past homework assignments. Now, the task is to assemble these pieces into a CUBE. The one who finds the most different ways wins 😊. You should find at least one. There are as many as 240 possible ways!
Participant Work Evaluation
When evaluating the submitted works, the main criterion will be the successful creation of the required figures from cubes.
Priority will be given to works that include:
Nets (розгортки) of these figures, especially original, well-conceived, and accurate ones.
A detailed description of the process (photographs, sketches, explanations of the assembly).
However, all participants who successfully create the correct figures will be positively evaluated, regardless of the material used (paper, wood, ready-made cubes, plasticine, 3D-printed parts, etc.).
The final and key task (week 6) will be assembling a 3x3x3 cube from all seven developed figures. The number of different assembly methods found may be considered an additional bonus criterion.
Nets are a valuable advantage, but the creation of the correct physical figures is the main requirement for receiving a grade. Creativity in execution is welcomed.
I bought this cheap puzzle precisely for the 27 cubes.
They are connected inside with a string. By cutting it, I can glue together the necessary figures.
About me))
This very picture is the reason I topped up my accumulated balance in STEEM POWER to 55,000. I had planned and hoped to reach at least 50K by the end of this passing year. Throughout the last year, I have been consistently applying for curator teams and to participate in the Steemit Challenge, though I took a pause in the summer for certain reasons.
I learned about and registered on Steemit back in 2016, and a clone appeared where I could communicate in a more familiar language, though not my native one. However, I have been actively accumulating "syle" (STEEM Power) for about five years now — I reached 55K, with 100K ahead. Yes, for me, as a mathematician, these are just numbers — nice, beautiful numbers. So, I'll probably be #club100 until I hit 100K 😊 But it's not worth planning that far ahead.
I haven't done a POWER DOWN and don't plan to. If I ever withdraw anything, it will only be the curator rewards. Thanks to my STEEM POWER, the curator reward is 370 STEEM per month.
The accumulated STEEM POWER is needed because here we are not just authors — but also curators.
Thank you for considering my application.
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@sergeyk
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It seems like a very interesting game, I think I might try it this time. ✅
It seems like a very interesting game, I have never played this game before. The topic of your application is great. Good luck to you, friend.
PS This is first and foremost a set of well-designed three-dimensional forms that can exist on their own as décor or souvenirs. They have aesthetic value even before any assembling begins.
Yes, they are used to build other shapes, including a 3×3×3 cube (week six), and this allows for competition — who can find the solution faster or more accurately. However, by its nature this is not a conventional game, but a spatial puzzle: the result depends not on luck, but on thinking, attention, and an understanding of form.
@selina1, @max-pro ..
@isratmim (I was hinting at this in the comments — I think you’ll like it.)