Circle Crystal Pyraminx Demonstration

[@Leipuanani]

You are brilliant and your ability to teach in a simple and understandable way is the best!!!

[@FERNAND0MF]

Fantastic!!! I love your videos. I'm from Brazil. Make a complete solve of this beauty.

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

Your wish is my command! That will be arriving shortly...

[@1abyrinth]

10:49 wouldn't an actual circle kilominx also have circle megaminx hidden edges?

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

Yes! That's exactly right, if the circle puzzle was a "real" version, which is revealing the inner structures, such as Carl Hoff's real 5x5 and 6x6. However, if the circle structure emerges out of the Sengso fused versions, as is their circle 2x2 and 4x4, then the circle Kionminx may have been a fused version of the megaminx where one megaminx engulfs the other one giving the circle structure. This circle version doesn't emerge from two fused puzzles, but rather a circle megaminx inside a crystal pyraminx shell. Good observation!

[@puzzlemax13]

Very interesting, and complicated (yet still understandable) explanation of this puzzle. My brain broke it down in a completely different way so it was interesting to see a more, "from the inside out" explanation of how this puzzle works. I'm hoping to get a basic tutorial/explained solve of this puzzle up on my channel within the next week or so. I imagine that you'll be doing the same. I'm very curious to see how your solve approach differs from mine.

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

Yes, this is definitely a fun puzzle to analyze. The appeal of the circle puzzles to me has always been how they correlate with other structures being "puzzles within puzzles."

[@Puzzlemad]

You are quite right about the AI issue. I am often asked by surgeons, nurses and my anaesthetic colleagues why I don’t do sudoku and other computer based puzzles and I always say that the physical tactile aspect of any puzzle is what I crave. Having an AI since something even if I’ve given it the method is just not good enough. I bought this puzzle recently along with a whole bunch of others and Ann really looking forward to working on it

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

Agreed! There is a similar answer to those who ask if physicians will be replaced by AI. The answer is analogous as actual human face to face contact enhances the patient experience far beyond an AI summation of tests and diagnosis.

[@antoniomegia5770]

Gracias. Jj😅¿Cómo le gustan los cubos "sencillos"? Con que cariño y renovada pasión nos va mostrando las novedades de híbridos con que las marcas van rellenando los huecos aún bacantes de la tabla periódica*'cúbica'.❤

[@rccubing907]

Does Circle Crystal Pyraminx really its original name or you use the term Pyraminx because of its mechanism?

[@Danielvrijhof]

Do you have any speed cubes? Or just twisty puzzles

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

I may have a few in my collection, but admittedly I don't really collect those. As I don't have nearly the skill or talent to make proper use of them, given that my solves are far too slow ;)

[@DuskyThePupcake]

I know this isn't related to the puzzle in the video, but I didn't know where else to turn to. I bought a witeden 3x3x7 THINKING it was fully functional, but i was wrong. the yellow corner and edge pieces stick out whenever i flip them. it LOOKED like a normal 3x3x7. I am having trouble solving it and i can't find a tutorial on YT. PLEASE Tell me you have one on your channel, and if so could you link it to me? thanks in advance!

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

Which 3x3x7 do you have? Do you have a picture?

[@DuskyThePupcake]

I do yes. How do i send it to you?​@SuperAntoniovivaldi

[@vidcapper1]

The weirder the puzzle, the more you like it! 😛

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

Yes! Weird is much more interesting then the alternative ;)

[@prestonsmith3137]

I wonder if its possible to change the face type on this puzzle.

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

IIs my understanding that there is. Every so often when I turn the face, the center is dragged with it, so I think it may be a matter of loosening the tension, but I don't know how to do that without taking apart the puzzle.

[@prestonsmith3137]

​@@SuperAntoniovivaldi Thanks for the reply. I'm excited for you to check out Reiden's ghost 3x4x5. It's a big chunky puzzle but a lot of fun.

[@masacrador1]

so how is this related with the new multi crazy pyraminx crystal? It seems that one is the same but withouth the new inner edge pieces?

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

Ah, good question! That demonstration will be coming, but I suspect that it will be a simpler version of the circle crystal pyraminx. This is because while the edges are still there, the hidden part of the edges will be revealed making it a much easier solve from the standpoint of being able to see them under the false edge. So it will be an easier solve to visualize, but still the same strategy.

[@DonaldKronos]

The artificial intelligence you described is artificial and intelligent in the same sense that artificial fruit is artificial and fruit. Not in the sense that artificial flavoring is artificial and flavoring. Artificial fruit is a simulation of fruit. Artificial flavoring is actually flavoring. The artificial intelligence you described is no more intelligent then a plastic apple is a fruit. If you have to tell it all of the steps to solving the puzzle, then it isn't solving the puzzle. You solve the puzzle and it recorded the solution so that it can be played back, somewhat like a recording of audio or video. Artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent doesn't need to be told the steps to solving the puzzle, to figure out for itself what steps it can take to solve the puzzle. Artificial intelligence being able to do such a thing won't stop you from doing it anymore than other human beings being able to do such a thing is stopping you from doing it.

[@SuperAntoniovivaldi]

I like your analogy of the kind of algorithmic machine learning described as being more like an artificial simulation of an object rather then an artificial but still functional version of it. However, the kind of limited AI that we are using now, the algorithmic kind of machine learning that I'm referring to, is more like the current use of ChatGPT. This is as functional as the real fruit, and will compose memos, letters, papers, operations manuals and so on that will take cues from your instructions and even in your particular style. So the more input you give it, the more it will give a practical and useful product with your specifications. Without your input, it the final product will often be inaccurate, irrelevant and not be practical for what you intend. I can muse over a memo or paper for hours writing every bit of it myself and in my own voice, or I can plug in the outline and various points I want conveyed including references, and the AI, in current use, will immediately compose something with all my intended components much faster. The more specific I am in the algorithms or instruction, the more useful and specific the end product for what I intent. This is what I'm referring to regarding puzzle solving. The same limited AI will be informed of my strategy and steps, then it will proceed to solve it, and even figure out things I didn't know would be problem, such as parity problems or false equivocation of pieces. While this is a very economical solution, it would detract from the fun and true satisfaction of the solve. I have no doubt, moving forward, AI will not only not need our input as to how to solve a puzzle, but will someday design and even create twisty puzzles of such complexity, that only another AI can solve it! I wonder what such puzzles will look like, and hope to be around long enough to actually sample one. Can anyone think of what such a puzzle would look like or twist like?? Thanks, Donaldkronos, for your thoughts!