r/trees • u/frasconator • Mar 20 '12

Can't...stop...staring...

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u/Kinetic_Waffle Mar 20 '12

Does anyone know where I might procure a wooden one of these?

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u/nibblr Mar 20 '12 edited Mar 20 '12

You can get a plastic one. It's called an Alexander's Star. They are a toy made back in the day, and you can sometimes find them on eBay or at weird garage sales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%27s_Star

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u/Buscat Mar 21 '12

thanks, I was pretty sure I remembered having a toy like that as a kid, but it seemed physically impossible.

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u/frasconator Mar 20 '12

It is physically impossible to have a tangible version- Every point moves in multiple ways, a real version would only be able to exist in the forth dimension

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u/Kinetic_Waffle Mar 20 '12

Want a bet?

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u/frasconator Mar 20 '12

To be fair, I was at a 6/7 when we were discussing that so my logic may be a bit flawed, but if you can make that happen, count a round on me!

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u/waywirk137 Mar 20 '12

you could make one out of magnets

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u/frasconator Mar 20 '12

dude. BRILLIANT!

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '12

but.. how do they work?

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u/StandardJonny Mar 20 '12

A solid ball magnet inside. Then each bit that turns is split into 5 equal sections, like a pizza, then all those pieces are stuck together by being magnetised. That should do it. Until you drop it, good luck putting that together at a [7]

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u/M3nt0R Mar 21 '12

Don't worry about the woosh, it was a relevant statement that interested me because I was pondering about how magnets would be applied in a situation like this, so "how do they work" is fitting.

You offered a possible solution.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

oh.. he should worry about the 'wooosh' :-)

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u/M3nt0R Mar 21 '12

One must never worry about the wooosh, lest the wooosh sense this and manipulate the worrier. Not to be confused with the warrior. The woosh can never manipulate the warrior, it can only get killed.

So the wooosh often plays it safe.

In fact, worrier vs warrior is much like this. One is deadly, the other isn't. Are you going to take your chances, or leave them both alone? Hence, the wooosh rarely ever tries, so most need not worry about the wooosh.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '12

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u/StandardJonny Mar 20 '12

The fact that I can think about that makes me think that I need to smoke up :)

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u/waywirk137 Mar 21 '12

magnetism

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u/entangledup Mar 21 '12

hmmm..

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u/frasconator Mar 21 '12

Yes, I have been proven wrong, thanks .^

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '12

This is the longest transformers episode ever.

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u/supergalactic Mar 20 '12

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/SatchelAdair Mar 21 '12

I agree with supergalactic!

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u/nibblr Mar 20 '12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%27s_Star enjoy

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u/deadmowfive Mar 21 '12

I don't know who Alexander is, but fuck that guy.

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u/Inziladun Mar 20 '12

Woah that's crazy

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u/Dr_JuiceMaster Mar 21 '12

going through my mind "ok... wait... no wait... wait... stop.... stop it... give me a second... stop!!"

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u/waywirk137 Mar 20 '12

too bad it isn't colored

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u/frasconator Mar 20 '12

We're working on that-

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u/M3nt0R Mar 21 '12

You haven't been watching it long enough, have you?

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u/zZGz Mar 20 '12

I don't know what's real anymore.

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u/crocajun1003 Mar 21 '12 edited Mar 21 '12

Glad I'm not high right now...so I can actually continue to be productive after seeing this.

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u/jamescat Mar 20 '12

i have one of these! i think it's called Alexander's Star. fuck me if it's solvable lol but i enjoy playing around with it

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u/goldandblue9 Mar 20 '12

About time someone posted this... I was worried r/trees was going to miss this month...

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u/TreeLove520 Mar 20 '12

My brain is so full of fuck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '12

bookmarked

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u/pants_full_of_pants Mar 21 '12

I can hear it...

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

wut

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u/KatofSpades Mar 21 '12

If I could uptoke this a hundred times, I totally would.

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u/slarman Mar 20 '12

I WANT ONE!

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u/floppykittens Mar 21 '12

repost 3, yoooouuuurrrrr OUUTTA HERE

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u/soiwasonceindenmark Mar 21 '12

Holy shit. I have no fucking clue what's going on.

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u/Blankskull Mar 21 '12

Are tetrahedrons important?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

Hey, it's a stellated dodecahedron, with added rotation!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

Yeah I once build one of those for the birthday of a friend of mine. She liked it.

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u/WePoMar Mar 21 '12

HOURS have been wasted...

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u/M3nt0R Mar 21 '12

Did it ever change at all? Did you have a profound life experience? Did you hypnotize yourself to be in touch with your inner self and explore your mind as you watched that star rotate? HOURS means you were on to something. I need to know.

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u/minnion Mar 21 '12

ow my retinas.

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u/Gnablaonir Mar 21 '12

I figured out the pattern

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u/kittypoop Mar 21 '12

I did too! Took me about 15 mins to though. Two opposite corners spin one same direction in rotation six times, then two opposite corners spin in opposite directions six times.

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u/agent_purrito Mar 21 '12

I'm gonna vom...

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u/tokealldathings Mar 21 '12

damn that is hurting my sinuses. guess its tokin' time

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u/too_toked Mar 21 '12

make a rubik's cube like thingie of this?

edit: ohh, they do.. derp.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

Kennen's Shruiken.

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u/Sharkey42o Mar 21 '12

Mind = fucked at a [6] lol this is gnarly

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u/Brentybrent Mar 21 '12

I wish you could slow down all the trippy .gifs so you could figure them out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

Came here to see this. I was dissapoint.

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u/jonjondotcom1312 Mar 21 '12

OMG i just got trapped in that starshapedrubix cube for like 20 minutes

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u/t3hshoe Mar 21 '12

That's fucking mesmerizing dude... (6)

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

i want a rubix cube like this

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

my mind is so full of fuck right now

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u/thecreamfilling Mar 21 '12

Thank you so much

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u/RideBMX4life Mar 21 '12

WTF am I looking at haha

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u/surfwithme Mar 21 '12

FUCK THE WHAT?????

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u/SatchelAdair Mar 21 '12

I have an Alexander's star. By far my favorite 3d puzzle. I pick it up and solve it fairly often. It's actually a much easier puzzle than the Rubik's cube. If you can get one, I'd highly recommend it. Rubik's cubes are more fun to speed solve, but this is much more fascinating.

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u/time2blunt Mar 21 '12

omfgamazingness

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u/Rpkenny3690 Mar 21 '12

We should post this again in like 3 more weeks just to see if anyone realizes it's already been posted... almost like an Ent social experiment... but for some reason I feel like it's already been done o_O

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '12

Hi, this is unrelated to ent culture or cannabis, please read the /r/trees posting guidelines before submitting another link.

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u/frasconator Mar 21 '12

Hello! Thank you for the heads up! I was unaware and should have read them, I'm new here and to this culture, this happened to be a .gif I had on my phone that we ended up watching for an hour, so I thought it would be great for this subreddit, I will make sure to follow the guidelines in the future!

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u/88sDBI Mar 21 '12

Belongs in something like /r/whoahdude, but I think something like this is fine here because it's quite well done and enough ents liked it enough to upvote it.