Stewart Coffin

Geometric Puzzle Design

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses how to design "good" geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedral dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples, sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical design and woodworking tips to encourage the reader to build his own puzzles and experiment with his own designs. Aesthetics, phychology, and mathematical considerations all factor into the definition of the quality of a puzzle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9781568813127
• ISBN-10: 1568813120
• Artikelnr.: 24314970

Autorenporträt

Coffin, Stewart

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1 Two-Dimensional Dissections
2 Two-Dimensional Combinatorial Puzzles
3 Misdirection-Type Puzzles
4 Variations on Sliding Block Puzzles
5 Cubic Block Puzzles
6 Interlocking Block Puzzles
7 The Six-Piece Burr
8 Larger (and Smaller) Burrs
9 The Diagonal Burr
10 The Rhombic Dodecahedron and Its Stellations
11 Polyhedral Puzzles with Dissimilar Pieces
12 Intersecting Prisms
13 Puzzles that Make Different Shapes
14 Coordinate-Motion Puzzles
15 Puzzles Using Hexagonal or Rhombic Sticks
16 Split Triangular Sticks
17 Dissected Rhombic Dodecahedra
18 Miscellaneous Confusing Puzzles
19 Triacontahedral Designs
20 Puzzles Made of Polyhedral Blocks
21 Intermezzo
22 Theme and Variations
23 Blocks and Pins
24 Woodworking Techniques
Finale
Bibliography
Index