Puzzle and maps together in one ambiguous package

[evansd2]

Quite a thing.

An Infinite Icosahedral Puzzle of the Earth

If you don’t read kottke daily (or more) I’d highly recommend it.

[shop]

i don’t know about being able to make one people can put together multiple ways (too hard for me to figure that out), but i do like the idea of making one that doesn’t have standard rectangular shape. will have to keep that in the back of my head for future use.

[ChristyM]

Small world moment… I noticed that they’re in Somerville, MA, which isn’t far from me, so I went on over to their website to see what’s what. The name struck me as familiar and now I know why. A few weeks ago I mentioned a reuse shop in Somerville. While I was there, I stumbled across a bin of lasered wood scrap from that company in an interestingly shaped cutout (which, of course, caused me to look them up…).

Anyway, the puzzles are pretty cool.

[evansd2]

@shop

i don’t know about being able to make one people can put together multiple ways (too hard for me to figure that out),

This part doesn’t seem too hard…

Take a tiled pattern image, and overlay your puzzle pieces on one tile image, (the center one in a 3x3 array) but make it so your top row of pieces lock neatly into the bottom, and left column into the right column, and now you can assemble the pieces in any order you like, it’ll have no edge.

[AhnoldZ]

Nervous System puzzles have appeared here irregularly over the years. They do cools stuff. Here are some examples:

Infinite Jigsaw Puzzle (with dynamic wraparound)

I know there’s been some discussion here about fractals and tessellation puzzles. In exploring those ideas, I stumbled across a particularly intriguing example: http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/gaming/a24034/infinite-jigsaw-puzzle/ Their galaxy puzzle is less DIY laserable (so possibly of less interest around here) than their natural version. But it’s just neat. Y’know?

Dispatches from the front (Pre-Release Report) - Joyce Kilmer Edition

Well… Depends what you are trying to do, and what you need or want software to accomplish. There are online guides for making your own jigsaw puzzle, and some specifically for making them with lasers. There are plug-ins and add-ons for the various design suites (Illustrator, Corel, etc). You can find blank puzzle shapes with google’s image search, There are math-based programs if you work that way… There is inspiration all over the place if you want to get away from the traditional shapes.…

What 'Parametric' is All About

Hey everyone! I’ve noticed a few times now in different topics where people have mentioned how they weren’t 100% sure what parametric meant. Personally, I’ve been a little obsessed with the concept in the last couple years, so I figured I’d make this thread as a place to let everyone discuss what this whole ‘parametric’ buzzword is all about. So, what does parametric mean? In the simplest terms, something parametric is anything with a final form controlled by a series of variables. As the varia…

[rbtdanforth]

@evansd2

I’d highly recommend it

“KEEP ON MAKING STUFF IN THIS TIME OF RAMPANT ASSHOLERY” (caps are theirs) is a concept I can get behind. Leaving the world with artifacts of your existence is a form of immortality, and a shiny object in a desert of mass produced dross.