Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/03/video-of-cube-passing-through.html
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I don’t even know what just happened.
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A pleasingly counter-intuitive outcome, neatly visualized with 3D animation 
Thanks for posting this 
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I’m no math or physics nerd … what’s so special/amazing here?
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I wonder if the amazing thing here is not so much maths/geometry but the way that language is somehow manipulating our expectations.
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Indeed!
It’s easy to assume that the cubes must remain orthogonal to each other, or that the hole must be round 
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Olive Garden? Please kill that advert, STAT!
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That Rupert fella sure had some interesting hobbies: http://boingboing.net/2008/03/11/curious-property-of.html
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I was expecting a video, and all I got was this lousy rendering. So disappointing. 
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It was the same Prince Rupert:
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I believe he was also the author of the 17th century treatise, “Escape” (The Pina Colada Song)
Although might have been a different Rupert.
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If you like Prince Rupert’s cube, you should definitely check out Prince Albert’s rod.
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Merely an “amateur” artist, I note. Hmmph. I’m sure he could have done better if he’d cared to apply himself a little more…
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He died in battle, so he couldn’t have been that bulletproof.
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The wiki article got a translation error though. The dog wasn’t called “puddle” but “Pudel” (german for poodle).
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I’d be more impressed seeing Prince Rupert get his truncated ellipsoid through mistress Frances.
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That’s the way it is with poodles. Let the hair grow, and they look one way. Give it a poodle cut, and…
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He was called ‘puddle’ in this pamphlet from the 1640s:
I have my suspicions that he wasn’t really a shape-shifter, a witch or a soothsayer, either.
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Same question here. Anybody who’s moved, well, anything, like furniture, big boxes, pre-assembled framing, you-name-it, knows this. Is this meant to be a stub of some bigger article?
Am disapoint! 
