On Understanding Disentanglement Puzzles

Year: 2023 Authors: Xinya Zhang; Paul Kry; Etienne Vouga

Core claim

Visibility-volume structure and twistiness in C-space help distinguish wire puzzles from non-puzzles, though some cases still require additional criteria.

Topics

disentanglement puzzles, motion planning, configuration space, puzzle difficulty

Domains

geometry, topology, configuration space analysis, puzzle design, toy design, computational design

Methods

C-space comparison, visibility volume, GLI metric

Media

thick metal wire, digitized puzzle models, 3D motion diagrams

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