Message #1965

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Re: Another {7,3} puzzle
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:55:58 -0600

Thanks Nan. I’ve added #3 for now as well, and improved things a little
for spherical puzzles. The twists will now animate, and I corrected the
twisting of inverted slices. If you saved your {5,3} FEV solution file, it
may be broken (depending on whether you used that inverted twist when
solving). Sorry about that.

seeya,
Roice

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:28 PM, schuma <mananself@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Roice,
>
> Between the two {4,3} candidates, I like the second one better, because in
> candidate #1, it’s so hard to see the tiny pieces. Another reason I don’t
> like the first one is because the face circles seem to be truncated where
> they touch the edges (because of the width of edges). They look more like
> octagons. But in candidate #2 they are more circular.
>
> We can also create candidate #3, which is basically #2, except the face
> circles are much smaller so that they are tangent to the vertex circles.
> This candidate should be a direct analog of {5,3}, {6,3}, and {7,3}: face
> circles tangent to vertex circles; edge circles tangent to each other.
>
> Gelatinbrain also added the FEV {4,3} in his applet, as 3.7.10. You can
> find a screenshot here:
> <
> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/aGFi-p2vU57a_WS42KZNddMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
> >
> He defines the edge circles in a different way that so that they pass the
> face centers. In none of our candidates we have this property. In GB 3.7.10
> no piece is too small.
>
> So among the candidates I prefer #3, which should also be the easiest to
> solve. Then #2.
>
> Nan