Typophile Shaun Chung created this Rubik’s cube stamp featuring Chinese characters that combine to form verses from a traditional children’s poem. He laser-etched the characters from wood and affixed them to the cube. Shaun writes:
Chinese has a long history with the printing. In 105 AD, Cai Lun invented the paper. In 200 AD, the Chinese invention of Woodblock printing produced the world’s first print culture. In 1040, Bi Sheng invented the first known movable type technology. Therefore, I want to use a Chinese text for my cube. The text I used for my cube is called “Three Character Classic.†It is a traditional Chinese text that teaches young children to be a good person in the society. The text is written in triplets of characters for easy memorization, which is perfect for the cube since the cube is 3 by 3 on every side. The text is written by Wang Yinglin during the Song Dynasty, so I used a font called “Song,†which is correspond to the Song Dynasty when a distinctive printed style of regular script was developed.
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I’ve seen a Sudoko version of a Rubik’s cube. It shouldn’t be hard to make an English word version. I wonder why no one’s thought of that before.
But wait, AFAIK the cublets on a Rubik’s Cube rotate as you manipulate it. Won’t the poem be all topsy turvy…
Only the six center ones can get a different rotation. You sometimes get rubiks cubes with images on them. I find them to be a little trickier to solve. I once bought on of those, planing to print my own pictures on them. If only I had the time.
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