Florian history

[SpeedCubeReview]

I apologize if this is located somewhere obvious. I cannot seem to find what I am looking for. I am looking for a description of how "florian modding" started. Who the guy was, what cube it was on, when did it first start, etc.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Mollerz]

Florian Kreyssig
Shengshou 5x5 V1
~Worlds 2011

Now when people say "Florian mod", they just mean they are rounding off the corners. I personally think the Florian mod is specifically to this puzzle.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

I find it cool how the guy's name is florian and the mod on a 5x5 makes it sorta look like a flower (in my opinion)

 

[Animorpher13]

I find it cool how the guy's name is florian and the mod on a 5x5 makes it sorta look like a flower (in my opinion)

Yeah, me too!

 

[SenorJuan]

"Rounding off the corners" was being done to 3x3x3 cubes back in 1981. Not very scientifically, you just copied what a friend showed you. It was part of a general idea that sanding down things made the cube better. They were often a bit rough inside, eg. where caps were glued in place, and it was accepted that as cubes wore and bedded in, they got better, so smoothing things was an attempt at speeding the bed-in.

 

[Lchu613]

I believe the "Florian mod" originally only applied to the Shengshou 5x5, since that's what Florian himself did it on; people were doing corner-rounding and stuff before that just as part of modding too, but "Florian modding" sounds cooler than "corner-edge-center rounding".