Cheats and Fakes

I wanted something three dimensional, so I decided to have a pattern where some cubes stuck out and had a slight turn to touch other cubes. I didn't plan this one out very much, and as a result it took forever. Rob Bryan helped me put it together, so he appreciated how hard it was. For example, you may notice that the background cubes are not simply solved cubes, since the blue border is not straight. Although it can't be seen very well in this picture, the edges of the cubes which stick out have the same pattern as the nearby cubes. However, it didn't look very exiting when it was done. It is called "Cheats and Fakes" because many of the cubes are turned slightly (like cheating toward the audience in theater) and the background cubes are not cubes at all but are nine cubies from four different cubes each. This photo was taken right before I pressed the button on the atomic bomb, but I wasn't able to solve the cube in the minute before the bomb was to have exploded, so Andy kindly saved our lives by disarming it before I finished.

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