SOMA Cube - Anyone May Enjoy This (Newbs & Vets)
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Hello,
Cleaning out my basement, I was delighted to find my old Soma cube puzzle.
I teach Engineering Drawing & Design to 9th through 12th grade students. I thought this game would be fun and challenging for most students who are learning how to use SketchUp.
There are seven pieces of the puzzle - each piece is unique - and the pieces can be positioned (rotated & moved) to create a 3 x 3 cube - as well as many other shapes. There are over a million different ways of putting the seven pieces together to make a 3 x 3 cube.
I think I'm going to give new students two assignments:
1 - create the seven shapes
- create a group for each shape
- create a component from each group (use component name of 1, 2, 3, . . . 7)
2 - using the components, manipulate the shapes to form a 3 x 3 cube
I hope this will be helpful - I really enjoy it and as a kid, I used to spend many hours creating the various shapes illustrated in the little book that came with the puzzle. It may be useful to change the color of the different shapes - have fun with it - make a cube!
Happy Sketching,
Brad
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Hi Brad,
Nice toy, thanks!
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This can interest you : Programms for Solver Puzzles
For the original "Soma" you must load "Cubix 3D" who is in the same linkThe best link about Soma
The creator of Soma Piet Hein : His watchword : Co existence or no existence
and this interesting one
I don't give you the solution because it's one of the more "simple" crazzy headache I had never seen
Even you find a 3D solution(many exist), that don't say that you can assembly it in reality!
Only one works!
PS It is also not so easy to unbuild it
the Skp File
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