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Comment on "Four Corners" Cardstock Puzzle by tsmaster

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:01:48 -0500

At 16-Apr-2009 10:01:48, tsmaster posted:

I just measured the completed puzzle - it's about five and a half inches in diameter. Here's a picture of the assembled puzzle next to a ruler (that you can't read, but it's 12" long) and a CD.

Alongside it is a "Diagonal Star", which is a related puzzle, but didn't work out as well - perhaps because the paper model was too flexible, so it ended up looser.

Comment on "Four Corners" Cardstock Puzzle by tsmaster

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:12:23 -0500

At 15-Apr-2009 16:12:23, tsmaster posted:

I'll post some more pictures to give a better sense of the scale, but from tip to tip, each piece is a little less than six inches long, so the assembled puzzle ends up being roughly the size of a small grapefruit.

Printing on cardstock, this size is pretty satisfying - if the pieces were much smaller, they'd be tricky to assemble. If they were much larger, they wouldn't be rigid enough to assemble into the whole.

Not that I spent any time figuring out the optimal size - I just printed on cardstock I had on hand, and let Pepakura figure out the largest size that would fit on letter-sized paper.

Comment on "Four Corners" Cardstock Puzzle by natetrue

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:23:44 -0500

At 15-Apr-2009 09:23:44, natetrue posted:

That's really cool! How big is it?