NAME THAT PUZZLE!

[Canuck]

Okay folks, I made this puzzle yesterday...anyone care to guess what design it is???

Disregard the crappy look of it, it's only a rough prototype, I was using up some leftover scraps    It is in the shape of a 'Dodecahedron', however 

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[rolly_wood]

http://www.puzzlesolver.com/puzzle.php?id=41 

[Canuck]

Sorry Rolly....try again

Clue #1 - Designer initials are STC 

[MarkMc]

Cluster Buster, Cluster's Last Stand, Chicago??

[Canuck]

Oh, you are so close Mark...but not quite...

Clue #2 It's technically not mentioned in Stewart's Ap-Art listing, however it is documented

[rolly_wood]

Mark is right! if you fill the dimples of cluster buster you obtain RD.... or not?

[mike toulouzas]

Sorry Rolly....try again

Clue #1 - Designer initials are STC 

ok thats easy Stewart coffin.
But which one is it because the only dodecahedron i know of stewart coffin is the garnet.I also have 2 dodecahedron one is my Brain attack,the next is my heart attack which i have never shown yet
Take a pic of the pieces John

[Canuck]

Well, of course Mark was right, I just didn't want to let him off the hook that easy 
It's Stewart Coffin's 'Cluster Buster Experimental' # 47-X
 Here's a description from John Rausch;
"Obviously a Cluster Buster with spaces filled in to flatten the outside surfaces. That's all I know. Number 47X in Stewart's numbering system. "

Here's a couple more pics of it; Bottom pic is Stewart's original 





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[MarkMc]

Documented...how?

There was one that sort of looks like this one in "Creative Puzzles of the World" and credited to STC, but he said he had no recollection of it.

So did you just reinvent it yourself, or did you have some additional info?

[Canuck]

Yeah...when I said documented, I meant that John Rausch had taken a picture of one 

Well....first I was making a 'Seven Woods' out of scraps, but then thought I should fill it in to possibly turn it spherical    ....of course, now you know where that went  ....I didn't use any prism blocks just 6 sided center blocks and RP blocks to fill in the dimples, as it is there is 4 different pieces with two being the same...I'm pretty sure they could be modified to be all different...   Like all the 'Cluster Buster' puzzles, very difficult to find the opening move 

[Canuck]

There is one other thing I should mention, in Stewart's 'Design Notes' he mentions; "Another variation is to round the outside, so that it has the shape of a spere with eight triangular indentations, model submitted March 5, 1974"  "suggested by Tom Atwater"

I really would like to make one