Re-arrangable three-dimensional picture display incorporating a picture puzzle
OwnerRobert Frauhigerinventor
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Abstract
A displaying device for displaying pictures of baseball players, or the like, includes a three-dimensional (3D) structure including identically sized cube elements, provided with a respective picture fragment of each of the face surfaces. Being solved, the 3D structure exposes meaningful pictures on each of its six external flats. The displaying device is re-arrangeable for exposing a larger number of the pictures by separating the 3D structure into blocks--layers, each of which exposes meaningful pictures of its both opposite planes.
Claims9
A three-dimensional displaying device comprising a three-dimensional structure having three pairs of mutually perpendicular external flats and exposing a first predetermined number of respective meaningful and independent pictures thereon,
- wherein said three-dimensional structure further has a second predetermined number of internal surfaces thereof each extending substantially in parallel to a respective one of said pairs of external flats, and
- wherein said three-dimensional structure is rearrangeable to uncover a desired one of said internal surfaces thereof, each exposing respectively a meaningful and independent picture thereon, and wherein a predetermined arrangement of said structure defines a total number of said meaningful and independent pictures on said external flats and said internal surfaces, said total number corresponding to the sum of said first and second predetermined numbers of said external flats and internal surfaces, respectively.
A method of displaying independent pictures, comprising the steps of:
- providing N 3 cube elements substantially identically sized and provided with a respective picture fragment on each surface thereof, with N>1,
- arranging said cube elements in a parallelepiped master structure having three pairs of opposite external flats thereof, so that each of said external flats includes respective surfaces of a group of said cube elements, thereby exposing a first predetermined number of meaningful and independent pictures compiled of the picture fragments on said respective surfaces, said master structure having a second predetermined number of internal surfaces arranged, respectively, in parallel with said pairs of external flats,
- displaying said meaningful and independent pictures on said external flats, and
- separating said parallelepiped master structure into single blocks, thereby uncovering at least one said internal surfaces of the master structure, each of said blocks comprising said cube elements arranged in an array thereof and being of a single cube element's width, wherein each of said blocks has a pair of opposite planes, at least one of which coinciding with a respective one of said internal surfaces of the master structure, and exposing a meaningful and independent picture on each of said opposite planes, and
- displaying respective meaningful and independent pictures formed on said opposite planes of at least one of said blocks, and wherein a predetermined arrangement of said structure defines a total number of said meaningful and independent puzzle pictures on said external flats and said internal surfaces, said total number corresponding to the sum of said first and second predetermined numbers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.