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[rolly_wood]

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.

[Eric Fuller]

Wow, excellent.  I've had a couple customers ask for the solution to this puzzle, but have never been able to find it anywhere.

[rolly_wood]

happy it is useful to you. In case you would need it I can try to slow it down...

[Mark McCallum]

The exact spelled out solution can be found in the 1992 version of Puzzle Craft.  It can be found here http://www.puzzleworld.org/PuzzleCraft/pc92.pdf on pages 59-60.

The VRML model is pretty neat too.

[Stephen Chin]

Thanks for that link 007
Kinda  waited for you on this one till I fell asleep
Now I can digest this for the next year

And Ronaldo, once I get back to polyhedrs I'll email you on some of your very nice inventions, thanks for showing them, I am Impressed

[Kevin W]

Hello Rollywood,

I like the animation you made here.  What programs did you use to make it?  I want to try it myself.

[rolly_wood]

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.

[Kevin W]

Thanks for the answer Rollywood.  Sounds hard, but the results look worth the effort.  I will be sure to show you if I ever manage to create one myself.  Seems solving a puzzle on a computer is as fun as solving a real life puzzle for me.