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1  Main Forum / Puzzle Solutions / Re: Coffin 12 piece separation on: February 13, 2009, 05:41:03 PM
Hello Kevin, thank you.
I used VRML an old standard, now extended to XML, which was thought for sharing virtual reality scenes on the web. As far as I understand it is an interpreted language there is not a compiler, but the visualization (inside the browser) needs installing a plug-in (maybe a sort of compiler, I am not sure). As an example I am using Cortona by Parallelgraphics. It is free. For editing the source I am using VRMLPad an editor with some features as debugger and preview.
It is not so powerful but sharing is simple because just the free plug-in is needed. Unfortunately is not so user friendly...and it does not support variable programming, just absolute coordinates. But it allows incorporating java scripts...by which this drawback can be overcame. Hoping this helps.
2  Main Forum / Puzzlemaker Forum / Re: Hello on: January 31, 2009, 02:55:24 PM
My garage/lab  Embarrassed:

The only professional tool I have: miter saw with RD-jig and micrometer head



A radial table saw very unprecise. I had hopes when I bought this tool becuse of the sliding system but I changed soon opinion..



Drill press and belt/disc sander


Jointer/planer and router mounted on drill pillar


Drawer with jigs....


and spare pieces, toggle clamp.. that's all.


I am rather happy to have done my puzzles, but I am not proud of my lab/tools. Professional ones cost a lot in Italy. If importing them were not so complicate I would think to buy a table saw in US or canada. I saw in this site a cast iron table saw belt-driven for less than 500 $. In Italy costs at least twice that.. or three times.
3  Main Forum / Puzzle Solutions / Re: Coffin 12 piece separation on: January 28, 2009, 02:40:27 PM
happy it is useful to you. In case you would need it I can try to slow it down...
4  Main Forum / Puzzle Solutions / Coffin 12 piece separation on: January 28, 2009, 02:07:39 AM
Hi all, I have done a VRML model of the assembling method of this wondeful puzzle. It was already been published in Puzzle Craft as surely you know.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=JxJ2kkAZJxY
Unfortunately capturing the screen resulted in a very fast movie, I do not know why.
5  Main Forum / Puzzlemaker Forum / Re: Tease teaser on: January 27, 2009, 08:28:59 AM
Should really "pop" once some lacquer is put on it.
Eric, I am embarassed in doing my compliments to you, it is like the last of the students saying compliments to the masters... rather innatural... However I do it!
this is my first question in this forum: I shearched shellac or french (finish) in the search menu and I found no documents. Which lacquer do you use? I tried some oils (though I cannot find deft danish oil, which was reccommended to me, here) but what I prefer is shellac. In my opinion there is nothing like shellac able to "enhance" the grain of the wood. Someone is using shellac? If I remember well (from his site) Mike.... 

PS I will post photos of my tools soon, I think the biggest difference I assume there will come out in my technique is that I am not using table saw but miter saw, no sled but jigs.
6  Main Forum / Puzzlemaker Forum / Re: Hello on: January 26, 2009, 06:31:53 AM
You do good work, much better than my polyherdas
Thank you but I am sure you are exaggerating. Have you a link where I can see your polyhedra? I am very interested.

EDIT:
PS further info (but in italian) and pics about my work may be found in the woodworker forum il-legno (the wood) http://forum.il-legno.it/index.php in which I have also the role of moderator, particularly in the section Il DivertiLegno (The fun_of_wood) http://forum.il-legno.it/viewforum.php?f=82. To read some of the sections and to see attached images you may need to be registered. 
7  Main Forum / Puzzlemaker Forum / Re: Hello on: January 25, 2009, 04:54:07 PM
Hyper caught my eye right away, very cool structure. 

Thank you. If you want to catch the structure in 3d you may find funny to look at http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/917/dscf4508joinedsmallwr9.jpg
full screen, place a mirror orthogonally between the two images with the mirror surface leftwise. Then look right with both the eyes, the right one will look at the right image directly, the left one will see that one reflected by the mirror like shown here
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6561/stereovisionun1.jpg.
Sorry if I am "off topic" here.
8  Main Forum / Puzzlemaker Forum / Re: Hello on: January 25, 2009, 01:23:15 PM
Thanks so much to you all.
Peter: No, I have not a website yet but I am planning to do it soon.
Bernhard: Guten tag Bernhard, I already know your wonderful website, I will send you my address by email, I live in the very north of Italy not too far from Germany. You will be wellcome!
Eric: I am a bad woodworker, working in a garage with hobbyist tools. Hope to improve my "lab" in the future. I am making puzzles since 2005 (about, actually I do not remember exactly)
Robert: I know the great puzzlemakers who are contributing here, not comparable to myself.
Thank you again (also for having reformatted the images)
9  Main Forum / Puzzlemaker Forum / Re: Hello on: January 25, 2009, 06:33:43 AM
Welcome Rolando, I love your work. You must email me and tell me which are your own designs. I like polyhedras, mines not as good as yours. Thanks for the pics

Thank you Stephen. One is "hyperball" which actually is not a puzzle and was a joint idea  among several users of an italian woodworkers forum (il-legno), it is on the bottom-right of the first pic. Hyper.. from hyperbolic paraboloid the surfaces described by the wires.
Another one is "Beveled-Cube-Blossom" a modified version of the well-known Blossom puzzle from Bernhard Wiezorke.
It is at the centre of the first row of the first image. The assembling way is nice!
Yet another is the icosian game, the Hamiltonian path on the 12hedron: 20 identical pieces and 10 alluminiun dowels. It is top-right of the second pic.
Another one: 4 hexagons, 24 pieces, 48 magnets, top left of the second image.
Thanks for your kind welcome.
10  Main Forum / Puzzlemaker Forum / Hello on: January 25, 2009, 05:42:13 AM
Hello, my name is Rolando, I am a hobbist puzzlemaker from Italy. Mainly I make replicas of famous puzzlemakers or mathematicians (Stewart Coffin, Philippe Dubois, George Hart, Rinus Roelofs) puzzles, but in some cases I develop my own designs.
In case of your replies please use a simple English  Embarrassed
I am sure I will learn many things from you in these wonderful forums
Thank you.


http://www.cubicdissection.com/temp/rolando1.jpg


http://www.cubicdissection.com/temp/rolando2.jpg


http://www.cubicdissection.com/temp/rolando3.jpg

(edited by Eric to show the pictures better since they were hard to see in the attachment style)
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