Bram's Brick by Vergo

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gingervergo
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:09 pm 
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Hey forum,

This is my latest puzzle, Bram's Brick. As you may guess by the name, The puzzle was an idea by Bram Cohen.

It is a Dihedral based puzzle with two sets of 4-fold cuts of varying depths rotated 45 degrees from one another.

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Sorry for the poor quality photos, I don't have a better camera available.
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:18 pm 

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way cool!! I love it!

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Brandon Enright
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:21 pm 
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Beautiful. It looks like you got it solved too :D

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:27 pm 
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That's an awesome idea! I love how it doesn't change shape or bandage (I think)! I guess it's a "simple weird puzzle".

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shzl
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:35 pm 
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Nice! every cut is 180* only, except for the horizontal cuts which are 90*, yes?

Just like goomba said- its a simple concept, but really quite cool :D

But watch out Oskar, I think Bram is cheating on you :lol:

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Kapusta
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:46 pm 
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Beautiful! I'd love to see it modded into its true shape, the octagonal prism. :D

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:36 pm 
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GREAT Puzzle!

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Andreas Nortmann
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Post Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:37 am 
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A restricted octagonal prism. Cool.
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KelvinS
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Post Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:48 am 
Beautiful, and so SMOOTH! :)
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bhearn
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Post Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:10 am 
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Very nice!
Kapusta wrote:Beautiful! I'd love to see it modded into its true shape, the octagonal prism. :D
Hmm, doesn't look like it has 8-fold symmetry to me. This seems like the proper shape.
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alaskajoe
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Post Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:06 pm 
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bhearn wrote:Very nice!
Kapusta wrote:Beautiful! I'd love to see it modded into its true shape, the octagonal prism. :D
Hmm, doesn't look like it has 8-fold symmetry to me. This seems like the proper shape.
I would say so too. I guess 8-fold symmetry would mean that the top and bottom layer can be rotated by 45° enabling vertical turns?
Since that doesn't seem to be possible I like it this way.
However yes, it could be shape transformed to the octagonal prism. But I say this looks better.
It's great.

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Luke
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Post Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:01 pm 
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Great puzzle Eric. I watched part of the design process of this, and so it's very interesting seeing something going from a computer monitor into the physical world. It also looks like a great challenge. :)

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