The relatively straightforward swing-hinged dissection of an equilateral triangle to a square in this video is called “Dudeney’s dissection” and has been known since 1902. For a gallery of hinged dissections, check out Tse-hsuan Yang’s page at Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University.
[Editor’s Note: There used to be a post here about some Escher-esque molds for creating tessellating gecko-patterned paving stones out of concrete. The creator of the molds got all 20th century (19th century?) on us and demanded that we take down the post (something about needing to negotiate a contract and cut a deal before […]
Check out this astounding papercraft from Haruki Nakamura [via EMS Labs]
Greg Babic sent us a link to his excellent plans for building geodesic domes out of paper (or plastic). When I was a teen, I worshiped Buckminster Fuller and geodesic structures. In my attic, I still have the “Tensegrity Modeling Kit” that I bought with my allowance money (think: hippie Tinker Toys). Looking at these […]
Lee’s handcrafted wooden puzzles are world renowned – and for good reason. Each piece shows his passion for geometric form and interactivity, easily doubling as conventional visual sculpture. Lee Krasnow is a full time puzzlemaker currently based out of San Francisco, California. Several years ago he downloaded Stewart Coffin’s Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections along […]
