Zigguflat - How can a burr be two-dimensional, frameless and n-ary?
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The fact that you can remove a piece and still be able to make a rectangle is mind boggling.
It's hard to comprehend how you can still get a rectangle with missing pieces. Fascinating!
I think it is base 3. I'm guessing by watching the motion of the orange piece in the first demonstration, estimating the dime difference between 5 and 6 pieces disassembly and assembly which is a reasonable indirect measurement of the number of moves. Very cool puzzle!
Just printed this out. One of the coolest puzzles I have 3d printed so far. It's fun to fidget with besides solving it.
amazing
Wow, this is super cool! Love it!
Reminds me a bit of a round locking puzzle that used Grays Binary system. It takes 2x the moves for each new level added to the lock.
Thanks a lot for making them. Need some more time to answer the questions.
Awesome! See you there, Oskar!
Great puzzle! I printed it myself and had fun on my daily commute. You can also print extra pieces to make it longer.
The way this looks reminds me of the solution to the Taraki Circle Squaring problem using finite borel sets. A puzzle version of ut would be cool to see, although many of the sets are disconected and unimaginably fragile, the fractal natural nature of the sets required would make the edge geometry infinitely complex and unmakable(if it weren't for approximations and tolerances), and while you can do it with just a handful of pieces, as just a handful cover the vast majority, and proportionally, only like 0.0001% actually cover any surface area while the rest deal with incontinuity, but there are over 2^100 sets, so...
I can't answer your question but again, your mind is so brilliant!
I'm rather confused by the base that this puzzle uses. After some examination I believe that the puzzle is technically quaternary, but once any piece pair leaves its initial 0 position it never has to return to that position. Perhaps we could call it 3.5-ary?
I count twice as many "moves" for the six piece version over the five piece version, so... base 2? But that's based on a naive guess based on two data points, so who can say.
Wow, this is very nice puzzle! I love it! 😍❤👍 Maybe its time for some 3D printer... 🙂
Reminds me a lot of a "barcode burr" puzzle i really liked
Damn your drunk driving tests are hard.
Glad to see Green Peace left out and the bass should always be down low.
23 and 13 in+outs for each, so binary?
It’s all about that base, that base, that base, no treble…