Problem

The Giant Pyramid Puzzle was a gift that I got from some family friends in the late 1980s. It took me several years of off and on fiddling before I discovered a solution to the puzzle. I have since forgotten some of the techniques that I used to eliminate unlikely piece configurations when trying to arrive at the answer, but I did record the layout on a sheet of paper.

Solution

I kept that piece of paper with me for years before deciding to save the information digitally, and it's taken me a while to get around to generating a 3D model of the solution. I have used X3D as it is a good open source XML method to represent three dimensional objects.

I have made the model in the solution red as my original puzzle was red. I wrote a script to dynamically create the model, but I've used a static file for display.

Until the major browsers can natively display X3D, you'll need a plug in to view the model. (And as such, this page is not XHTML 1.1 compliant.)

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 @ 20:18:58 EDT

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