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Sort of a Rubik-Mondrian.

Another trick is to make your own stickers and put 'em on there. Makes for a cool custom gift.

I would like this shirt SO MUCH without the text.

So I'm pretty sure this isn't solvable, there's blue at both the center top and center right. Centers can't move, they can only rotate, therefore this would be an extremely frustrating puzzle.

Not to be "that guy", but this Rubik's Cube is unsolvable. One corner has two reds, and also there are two center blues.

I'm so sorry. I hate being "that guy". I'll hang my head in shame and leave quietly now.

I fear that if I wear this shirt, people will come up and try to peel off the stickers to get the cube to work, but in the end they'll have just pulled out some of my chest hairs.

Dude across the hall has one of these and has memorized its solution. He'll probly end up buying this. I love its Escher-esque feel!

The artist blurb isn't kidding; for the cube to exist as pictured, the stickers would have to have been taken off... and then put back on incorrectly. Note that in the one corner we can see three sides of, one is yellow and two are red. This cube can't be solved...

I sort of miss Heather Grey for shirts like this. =P

Cute design!

It has the X, Y, & Z-axis mapped nicely. It's all about volume, without the annoying BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! of the party next door!

Shmuel510 wrote:The artist blurb isn't kidding; for the cube to exist as pictured, the stickers would have to have been taken off... and then put back on incorrectly. Note that in the one corner we can see three sides of, one is yellow and two are red. This cube can't be solved...

Well, if we're going to get particular the cube is also missing one of it colors.

Though I think that's more the fault of woot's 6 color limit and the color black being used for the lines.

Cheaters never win. That's all I'm saying.

DianaSprinkle wrote:Well, if we're going to get particular the cube is also missing one of it colors.

That much could be explained by the sixth color appearing only on the other three sides. The other two issues mentioned in this thread, not so much.

If this is cubism shouldn't we be seeing a couple more sides of the cube at the same time with more abstract angles? This seems a little more modernist.

My Snapple cap yesterday read:

If done perfectly(or correctly, idr which) a Rubick's cube can be solved in 17 turns.

Question on the writeup: Is it referencing a particular poem, or is it a complete original? I'm not literate enough to recognize any poetry style outside of the immature limerick genre.

I find myself grossly concerned with why there are only five colors.

multiple blue center pieces and red squares touching on the corners make this puzzle impossible/not a real rubik's

dianawade wrote:I would like this shirt SO MUCH without the text.

me too!

This guy is amazing:

If you wear this, art students will think you are sophisticated.

snmurphy95 wrote:I find myself grossly concerned with why there are only five colors.

LOL, Woot has a 6-color limit and there's a black color used for the lines... also as Shmuel510 suggested maybe the side away from us is a completely finished side of white.

I think silver is the new asphalt. I really like this design but the last two shirts I bought (Reading Rocketship & Galactic Gumtastic) were both silver (and both space related, coincidence?) and I just can't justify adding another shirt of that color to my wardrobe so soon after the last two. What about trying slate next time, mmm?

Hey everyone! thanks for all the support.

Dangit, who's been messin' with the stickers on my shirt?

I had like 27 extra stickers left over when I got done making this shirt... I guess I shoulda' been paying attention or something...

Its Sept...a long sleeve T would be nice

dianawade wrote:I would like this shirt SO MUCH without the text.

will the text come off with mineral spirits?

chrisprender wrote:Not to be "that guy", but this Rubik's Cube is unsolvable. One corner has two reds, and also there are two center blues.

I'm so sorry. I hate being "that guy". I'll hang my head in shame and leave quietly now.

I had the same thoughts, but the comment did say that the dude took the stickers off then put them back on, only thing salvaging it.

But the fact you'd wear this in public without that comment definitely makes the shirt a fail in my opinion.

Been a customer of woot for over 4 years now and I had to post this one time because this is absurd.

Shmuel510 wrote:The artist blurb isn't kidding; for the cube to exist as pictured, the stickers would have to have been taken off... and then put back on incorrectly. Note that in the one corner we can see three sides of, one is yellow and two are red. This cube can't be solved...

There is also one peice that has both blue and green on it. In a real cube these two colors do not touch.

chrisprender wrote:Question on the writeup: Is it referencing a particular poem, or is it a complete original? I'm not literate enough to recognize any poetry style outside of the immature limerick genre.

Pablo Picasso by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. (Alternate rockin' version done by John Cale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYfnXTIUls

And Pablo Picasso was never called...oh, never mind.

dianawade wrote:I would like this shirt SO MUCH without the text.

agreed. I would buy this if it didn't have the text, turns it from a cool design into a wannabe pun.

If only the colors were in the right place!

chrisprender wrote:Not to be "that guy", but this Rubik's Cube is unsolvable. One corner has two reds, and also there are two center blues.

I'm so sorry. I hate being "that guy". I'll hang my head in shame and leave quietly now.

Nah, don't worry about it. I was gonna do it if you didn't.

chrisprender wrote:Question on the writeup: Is it referencing a particular poem, or is it a complete original? I'm not literate enough to recognize any poetry style outside of the immature limerick genre.

Edgar Allen Poe

hint...Raven...hint,hint

I had occasion to work with Dr. Rubik some time ago. While your poem is cute, the boot lick refrain really fails to consider the challenges he faced.

Rubik invented the cube during the height of Communism. There was a very convoluted process to bring it to market and for about a year, sales were slow. Then, suddenly he had a phenomenal commercial success that nobody expected. There were pressures for him to promote the perception of the Communist government and Hungary, when he wasn't really a politically oriented person. There were also others who resented his entrepreneurial success and opposed it on ideological lines.

So while Rubik isn't the kind of person who resorts to needless flattery, he did have to act strategically and diplomatically to survive and succeed in that business environment.

Oh, and, he's still alive, so it's a bit premature to talk about him in the past tense.

One other thing--his initial problem was figuring out how to get the cubes to revolve in all directions. When he finally built a working prototype, he didn't start with a solution to the puzzle--that took another four months for him to figure out. However, in the process, he realized that solving it was pretty compelling--leading him to realize there was wider appeal to it than the classroom challenge he originally invented it for (he was teaching college mathematics).

So if you struggle with the cube, remember it took Rubik a while to work it out, too. Best way I know to solve it is to use diagrams to understand how different combinations of movements change the configuration of the colors. It may take longer than the cheat guides, but you'll understand how the solution works.

I really like this shirt. But the thought that every geek I know is going to think he's clever by telling me it's unsolvable is simply too much to bear. Two center blues? WHY?!?

But on the bright side it might get me play with the art students in the school next door...hmmm....

tjost wrote:If this is cubism shouldn't we be seeing a couple more sides of the cube at the same time with more abstract angles? This seems a little more modernist.

Well now you're assuming this a cubist representation of a cube, maybe it's a bowl of M&Ms. ;)

Congrats Mr Graff! Very clever design, very wearable.