George Hart

"Sculpture Puzzle (30 pieces)"

"Sculpture Puzzle (12 pieces)"

Yellow acrylic plastic, 4" diameter, 2005.




George W. Hart
Research Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA

" These two acrylic sculpture puzzles are from a series exploring symmetry. Each is composed of identical laser-cut parts which snap together into a symmetric arrangement. The underlying mathematical idea is that a flat shape can lie in the stellation planes of a polyhedron and meet copies of itself at various symmetry axes in such a way that clockwise and counterclockwise torques balance, leaving the result structurally stable without any glue or connectors. "

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