Open Projects

Our project idea is to make a Prince Rupert’s Cube. The Prince Rupert problem was proposed by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Prince Rupert’s cube is the largest cube that can pass through a hole cut through another cube without splitting the cube into two pieces. This proposition was […]

The chapter we chose for our project was chapter 9, which is all about graphs. For our project, we chose to do a 3D print of a Rhombicuboctahedron. We believed it would be easy to print because it is made up of triangles and squares. We would like to learn coding to make a wire frame […]

Our project idea is to create a print of elliptical Borromean rings from chapter 8 of our book. Borromean rings often contain three rings, but can contain up to four or five. We are going to start out with a three ring print because it is the most simple way to make Borromean rings, then […]

Our initial project idea is to create a Meissner tetrahedron. It involves taking a regular triangular tetrahedron, but then rounding all the parts to a precise point creates the Meissner Tetrahedron. What is really cool about this is that, although it is not like a circle containing zero edges […]

Our group will be making the Trefoil Knot which is one of the prime knots based on chapter 8 of Things to Make And Do In The Fourth Dimension. We were very interested in this particular knot because it looks different with each kind of projection and there are many ways that we can […]

For our open project idea, we decided to experiment with the relationships of the “perfect pizza slice” with its self and with the pizza as a whole as a solution to the pizza problem. The goal of the pizza problem is to find how to cut a pizza into same shaped slices that don’t all touch the middle […]