Rubik’s Cube Artist Alex Ivanchak has become a social media sensation
The Ukrainian national Rubik’s cube champion who can solve the puzzle in nine seconds has shown how Alex Ivanchak, 22, makes incredible art with the 1970s toy. He shares videos of himself making striking Pop Art-inspired portraits of famous faces including Leonardo DiCaprio and Elon Musk, using hundreds of Rubik’s cubes.
What’s most fascinating about Ivanchak’s Rubik’s cube portraits is he doesn’t have a blueprint to guide him. He uses the tile color of each tile of the cube as a pixel and combines these ‘pixels’ to make the picture. With incredible speed, he picks up a cube, sets the right pattern on it, and places it in the wooden frame, one after the other. The end result is a portrait in amazing likeness of the original.
Ivanchak’s love for Rubik’s cube started early and he became an expert at solving it. It was only natural for him to enter into Rubik’s cube competitions. He excelled in all its formats, such as 3x3x3 Cube to 7x7x7 Cube, fewest moves, one-handed, blindfold, and several others. It isn’t surprising that he has been Ukraine’s national record holder 23 times!
We can’t even begin to wrap our minds around the extreme strategy and cube algorithms that must go into these displays, but we’re glad we get to be on the receiving end of Alex’s incredible talent!
Sources:
- https://youtu.be/Bs0wLVOdl78
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9279017/Rubiks-cube-champion-reveals-incredible-Pop-Art-portraits.html
- https://awesomebyte.com/ukrainian-artists-rubiks-cube-art-has-become-the-talk-of-the-town/
- https://www.inspiremore.com/alex-ivanchak-rubiks-cube-art/
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