Pseudo Chop

Description

Pseudo Chop came up in a discussion at the Twisty Puzzles Forum. By using the twisty-puzzle exporation software by Diogo Sousa, an interesting geometry was found that looks deep cut, as all cuts go through the origin of the sphere. However, the cuts have orientation in Pseudo Chop. Because of this, the parts can be kept together by a rails mechanism with male and female rails.

The puzzle has two rotation axes, one with five-fold geometry and another with three-fold geometry. The puzzle is doctrinaire.

Carl Hoff describes the looks of the puzzle as “Poor oral hygiene Pac-Man goes to the disco”. (Insert West-Virginia joke here). That tooth was added to complete the nineth pentagram on the sphere.

Watch the YouTube video.

Read at the iMaterialise Forum.

Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.

Please order a 3D-printed do-it-yourself puzzle kit from iMaterialise at this page (check with Oskar about screws and stickers), or contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.