Spherical tiling puzzle
AssigneeChunli Du
InventorsWanguo Liu, Peichang Ouyang
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Abstract
Disclosed is a spherical tiling puzzle which is formed by combining a plurality of spherical tiles. The spherical tiles are each provided with a spherical regular polygon as a basic design element. The plurality of spherical regular polygon tiles constituting a spherical puzzle have same number of sides or different numbers of sides, the plurality of spherical regular polygon tiles are configured to be spliced into the hollow spherical puzzle according to surface layouts of five regular polyhedrons or thirteen Archimedean solids, and the spherical tiles provided through deformation of the spherical regular polygons as the basic design elements have various outer contour shapes, including but not limited to polygon-like, animal-like and human-like outer contour shapes.
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A spherical tiling puzzle, comprising a plurality of spherical tiles, wherein the spherical tiles are each provided with a spherical regular polygon as a basic design element, the plurality of spherical regular polygon tiles constituting a spherical puzzle have same number of sides or different numbers of sides, the plurality of spherical regular polygon tiles are configured to be spliced into the spherical puzzle which is hollow according to surface layouts of five regular polyhedrons or thirteen Archimedean solids, and the spherical tiles provided through deformation of the spherical regular polygons as the basic design elements have various outer contour shapes.
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