World's largest mechanical puzzle!!!

[MBD]

Crazy... funny the seller is from Austin...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Guinness-World-Record-Three-Dimensional-Puzzle_W0QQitemZ180347032815QQcmdZViewItemQQptZArt_Sculpture?hash=item180347032815&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A3%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

[Canuck]

Goes to show 'everything is bigger in Texas'

[Arc Light]

Wow the table saw must of been huge!

[Johan Heyns]

Check that photo of the African Elephant again.   Texas is a small place man!!!

That is one mother of a puzzle though!!!

[rolly_wood]

Reading "art sculpture" Rinus Roelofs comes to my mind. I assume you all already know his work... but in case not,  have a look at this
http://www.rinusroelofs.nl/sculpture/sculpture-00.html
Browse it in details it is magic...

[Chinnomotto]

Wow Roly, Thats an incredible site, I can see where you get your  inspiration from

Heavenly, I would lke 1  piece of that 30 piece co ordinate motion structure, that has 1 mortise and 2 tenon joints

Look under Sculpture,  click bottom left glass sculpture, bottom left is the wood download, 26Mb, I want, I want

What the Hell, we want we want! Please have your cortex working on it

Mind blowing stuff, and those Hamiltonian paths on the triangles and tetras, woooo


Looking at the auction sculpture, sitting in your lounge room, I'd sell it too

Not a burr person, makes good firewood all winter, right JD?  Johan? 

[Canuck]

Frankly, I went to that site and was astounded, I had to leave or I would have spent the rest of the day looking through all the designs, absolutely unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!

[Johan Heyns]

Not a burr person, makes good firewood all winter, right JD?  Johan? 

I'll stick to what I know!!  I have enough frustrations with that as it is!

[Jack]

This topic brings back some memories!
In 2007, on holiday in Embrun, France, I stumbled into a life-sized 6-piece burr, made by a couple of students.
And in De Hoge Veluwe, a natural park in The Netherlands, you can find a sculpture, made of poles and cables.







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[Jack]

Forgot the first picture:


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[rolly_wood]

translate please, the frustation is the mine...
Chinny: RR is a true mathematician and the large part of his sculptures remain digital... Once I wrote him and he was kind in replying me. Perhaps if you want to do some of his designs in wood, possibly he would give you the template, try write him... or simply ask the permission to study it. It is better to do it before this time 
John: eh eh when you fall ill by the geo-virus you can no longer recover... you will return on that site 
bored by right angle? between 0 and 90 there are so many values which worth attention!

EDIT sorry Jack we were writing at the same time....

EDIT2: of course I was replying to the above messages, wonderful the tensegrity structure Jack, if you search the web for such word you will find many info about

[cubefan]

hi
have a look at some pictures from the IPP 25 in Helsinki, they had there a rubik cube in wood, if I remember correctly more than 1 m in size and it was working
I`m searching for the pics of that immenese puzzle, and they had some more extreme big puzzles in the show

happy puzzling
Utahfan
Bernhard

[MBD]

I think I found it   
http://www.passionforpuzzles.com/blog/2007/04/largest-working-rubiks-cube.html

[cubefan]

Hi mbd

yes you are right that was it

all the best
Bernhard