
Back in Washington D.C. his Blind Burr kicked my backside
very thoroughly when I tried to solve it in the Design Competition room… and I
was delighted when I finally worked it out. The Ambigram Burr changed the rules
quite a bit and his Glued and Welded burrs are just the thing to inflict on
someone who reckons that a burr is a burr is a burr…

One of the other people showing a fair amount of interest in
those designs at IPP35 was Eric Fuller, so when he announced that he’d made up
a few copies of two of Greg’s NOS designs I didn’t hang about… and they are
every bit as good as I hoped they’d be!

Start fiddling with this one and you can actually get one or
two pieces to appear to move in a pretty standard manner… it doesn’t seem to
help, but it is a little comforting!
Experiment a little more and you’ll find pieces start
interacting, and then things start getting really funky! Soon enough you’ll
have pieces heading in all sorts of different directions and shortly after that
you’ll find you have a hand-full of pieces!
Well done… now all you have to do is reassemble them – Good luck!

…and I’m willing to bet that you’ll be rather surprised at
the final move-count… after all the other interesting things you tried to do
with those pieces earlier on in your journey… :-)

…get past that first little surprise and then it sort of
behaves itself – as long as you’re OK with multiple pieces moving all the
time..
The first piece is released after a few moves, but the next
takes quite a few more – and they’re quite interesting… until you manage to
totally dismantle it and find the pieces are all unique – and if they don’t
imbue you with great respect for Master Fuller’s craftsmanship, you aren’t
paying attention.

A couple of awesome Benedetti designs cleverly made by
Fuller … hopefully there’ll be a lot more from that team – and you know it’ll
be a wild ride if there is!
...and don't just take my word for it! Kevin really approves as well!!
...and don't just take my word for it! Kevin really approves as well!!
Compressed is more difficult, and I wonder if there are multiple ways to get it back together. It seems also to have multiple assemblies, but not interlocking.
ReplyDelete...c'mon George, send us some pics of your experiments!
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