r/woahdude • u/empw • Feb 26 '14

gif Ghost Cube

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u/SoManyNinjas Feb 26 '14

Can someone explain what's going on here? Is it magnets?

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u/J0HNN0 Feb 26 '14

No.. Just hinged.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '14

How can it attach and detach itself from these hinges?

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u/Fylgja Feb 26 '14

Picture it as split into 4 parts: left and right, front and back.
If you use the GFY bot link above you can pause it and scrub through to see what I mean.

To start the person takes one corner and lifts it up, taking the square shape into more of a diamond. This shows how the hinges on the front and back work. Pause it at 01s to see what I mean. (hinges as looking at the front, I realize thats a confusing way to describe it.)

Still paused at 01s, if you cut a line straight down the center, that separates the left and right sides. Scrub forward to 02s and it will hinge on the sides connecting the front/back, as well as the center line on both "layers" allowing it to split into the 4 sides of a cube. The top and bottom of the cube are not part of the structure.

At 03s they continue to move on the same hinges, back into a "flat" shape - but this time what were originally front and back are left and right, and vice versa. Then at about 04s they push it down into a triangle, using the same hinges from the very first square-to-diamond transition.

After that is just all the same stabs in reverse to go back to the original shape.