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Now I'm no architect, but it seems an obvious design advantage to have little box rooms all arranged in a cube shape that can move around relative to eachother. Also makes a handy puzzle. And no need for lifts ever again.
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http://www.rubiks.com/
[angel, Jul 03 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Cube
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0123755
Not the most pleasant film I've ever seen [-alx, Jul 03 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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If you've ever seen the film 'Cube' (and you're very susceptible to the powers of suggestion), you'd find it impossible to even contemplate living in such a place. |
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Haven't seen cube. Like the idea... have an entire city built like this and slide your room to where ever you want to go... |
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just saw Cube.....makes me fishbone this suggestion without further thought...... |
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[Susen]: You left the farm long enough to watch a movie? |
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A problem would be that if you shuffle rooms like you shuffle a Rubics Cube the internal surface of each rooms that becomes the floor would change and during the change it would be quite chaotic. |
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Ah yes [Aris], but as the reveresible house showed us (Peter's link), this can also be an advantage. Just have 6 sets of furniture nailed to the wall/floor/ceiling and that's one for each day of the week. |
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As far as I can tell, the reversible house doesn't provide a solution for 'transition' effects either - stand outside and watch ? |
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It would be quite a challenge to implement this idea. How would one turn a layer of cubes, particular a vertical layer? I mean, you can't pick up a house in your hands... And since houses tend to be anchored to the ground, rotation of a vertical layer would cause some rooms to grind into the ground, no? |
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[angel].....yeah, right..... neat little invention called video rental stores.....sent two employees into town for pizza and a movie last night.....movie of choice was Cube (again, my life mirroring the 1/2 B).....next movie will be Sphere just to keep with the theme..... |
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I actually did leave the farm on Sunday...had all four employees in the car with me and was driving along, minding my own damn business, when a stupid/idiotic/young/blond/ditz slammed into me and totaled my car -----the one I bought brand new 13 years ago and have maintained completely so that it would last me 20 years------ fortunately we weren't hurt, except me slightly, as she hit my door/my side of the car ........and people wonder why I hate to leave the farm...... (answer: the rest of the world is crazy) |
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oh _sure_, susen, the _rest_ of the world is crazy. <winks knowingly, eyes dart from side to side> |
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Baked in sci-fi. In the comic sci-fi novel "Terra" by Stefano Benni, the seat of government for the Sinoeuropean Federation is called the Pyraminx, after the pyramid-shaped Rubik's Cube analog. The building's rooms are capable of rotating just like a real Pyraminx, to create a variety of spaces. |
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It doesn't work too well in the novel- "Last week, the ministers had to meet in the bathroom"- but, hey, nothing in the Sinoeuropean Federation works well, except maybe talk shows. |
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