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BURRTOOLS comes with some examples that illustrate the
capabilities and functions of the program. We'd like to thank the designers
for allowing us to include their designs in the BURRTOOLS
package.
- Design
- Ronald Kint-Bruynseels, 2003, Belgium.
- File
- AlPackino.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This puzzle shows how to properly make packing puzzles. You
always should include the box as a piece so that the program can also
check if the pieces can be moved into or out of the box. You can also see
how to handle multipieces. When looking at the solution it is useful to
display the box as a wire frame. This can be done by clicking at the blue
rectangle at the lower end of the tools. The rectangle with the text
``S1-Box'' in it.
- File
- SolidSixPieceBurr.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This file uses the piece range feature and the solutions
contains all solid 6-piece burrs. This is done by having all notchable
pieces in the problem and having a 0-6 range for all of them. Now each of
the pieces may be between 0 and 6 times in the solutions. If you want to
get the well known 314 solutions you have to include the mirror solutions.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, #197-A, USA
- File
- BallRoom.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This puzzle shows off the sphere gridspace. It also
demonstrates that is is possible and useful to include more than one
problem within one file.
- Design
- Bill Cutler, 1992, USA
- File
- Bermuda.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This puzzle demonstrates the triangle space grid. You can
see that you can stack many layers on top of each other.
- Design
- Mineyuki Uyematsu, 2002, Japan.
- File
- CubeInCage.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This file contains MINE's CUBE in CAGE 333, cube g. This
puzzle demonstrates how to use the grouping capabilities. The puzzle
contains 3 interlocked pieces that construct a cage. These pieces move but
can not be taken apart. It needs to be told to the program that this is
intentional. So here you have an example of how to do that.
- Design
- Ronald Kint-Bruynseels, 2003, Belgium.
- File
- DraculasDentalDisaster.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This puzzle demonstrates the use of colour contraints.
Halve of the result must be red and the other halve black. You can see the
colours if you enable the checkbox in the status line at the bottom right.
- Design
- Dic Sonneveld, 2000, The Netherlands.
- File
- PelikanBurr.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This is a very high level burr. It takes 98 moves
to get the first piece out of the box. This is just a demonstration of
what is possible.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, USA.
- File
- 12PieceSeparation.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- A very nice puzzle that required a lot of shifting to get
pieces in and out.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, USA.
- File
- AugmentedSecondStellation.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- An other puzzle based on the Four Corner puzzle by
Stewart where the added units are colourized.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, USA.
- File
- BrokenSticks.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This puzzle shows off the rhombic grid. It uses colour
to show the pieces that were added to the base pieces
of the Four Corner Puzzle. Allso note that the result
shape is there twice. One is the mirror of the other.
There is really no difference except for the shape of the
ends of the sticks. They can not be cut completely
rectangular that is why there are 2 possible ways and
only one has a solution.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, USA.
- File
- DiagonalCube.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- Strangely shaped pieces form a cube that disassembles
along an unexpected diagonal sliding plane.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, Bill Cutler, USA (both independently).
- File
- HexSticks.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- This is an old classic. It can be seen that the pieces can
be assembled in 33 ways, of those only 2 can really
be assembled. It can also be seen that the shapes
of the sticks can not be modeled correctly. The ends
can not be cut straight. But as that doesn't destroy
the symmetry of the whole shape it doesn't matter.
See Broken Sticks for an example where it does matter.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, USA.
- File
- PermutatedThirdStellation.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- A puzzle that shows the rhombic grid. The pieces are
formed by adding additional pieces to the pieces of the
Four Corner puzle. Those additional pieces are
colourized.
- Design
- Stewart Coffin, USA.
- File
- PiecesOfEight.xmpuzzle
- Remarks
- A puzzle with multiple problems.
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