Ok, that is one of the best math + lasercutter = art links that I have seen in a while. And the concept of being able to keep moving the puzzle pieces around is pretty cool.
There is also a link to upload your own art work and create your own puzzle, which is what I will be doing for this mother's day.
Overall, a pretty cool link.
this is awesome and reminds me of the tiling puzzle from the book Anathem:<p><a href="http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Teglon" rel="nofollow">http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Teglon</a><p>or<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling</a><p>I would love to have a Penrose tiling puzzle set.
I've played with one of these puzzles in person. They're incredibly cool but pretty difficult. I worked for 20 minutes and was able to tesselate a single piece into a different position.<p>I might just be bad at it though. On the other hand, the challenge is part of the appeal to me.
So it's many (more than I want to admit :-) years since my Euclidean and Non-Euclidian Geometry class, but isn't this a cross-cap, not a Klein bottle?
The soundtrack appears to be these NASA space recordings that were released in the 80s. They translated probe data into audible frequencies and released them as a CD box set.
How does one map an existing locally-similar pseudorandom pattern like the galaxy image onto a torus, Klein Bottle, or other closed shape? I know that with a generated pattern (e.g. Perlin noise) you automatically get that by taking the value of the noise function at the surface coordinates, but I have no clue about using existing planar images.
Could someone who understands the topology of this more fully say - if I had a set of two or more of these, could I solve each separately and put the solved puzzles together into a larger pattern?
I can buy a 1000 piece puzzle for $5 at walmart. Sure it's not nearly as cool as this but 236 pieces for $120? That's outrageous. I'd rather just have my money, thanks.