Not as easy as it looks. Meet the cubic trisection. twitter ![]()
YOUTUBE fD-zIUYhHps Published Dec 7, 2013.
Cubic Trisection was first shown to George Miller by Robert Reid as part of his box of all the ways a cube could be trisected by three equal parts. George asked Oskar van Deventer to design it. Most people have a difficult time putting it together. They usually try and force the pieces to "snap" together, whereas they easily glide together when twisted along the main diagonal. post ![]()
Robert Reid has also designed a set of 10 three-piece dissections of a cube, where each cube is split into three identical pieces. These photographs show the cardboard models that he made several years ago. post ![]()

Carlo Séquin: Prototyping Dissection Puzzles with Layered Manufacturing. In this paper we discuss two kinds of puzzles: Helicoidal sectioning of some simple shapes and realizations of some burr puzzles. pdf ![]()
A burr puzzle is an interlocking puzzle consisting of notched sticks, combined to make one three-dimensional, usually symmetrical unit. wikipedia ![]()