Quintessence
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Model information
- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Puzzles & Brain-teasers
- License
- Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — NoDerivatives
Quintessence
In ancient philosophy the fifth Platonic solid, the regular dodecahedron, is the highest element that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies. Quintessence comes from a Latin expression for this, the "fifth essence”. We dissected the regular dodecahedron into a six pieces burr with a unique level 9 solution. Once assembled it is a gem to look at.
Printing Instructions
Print the provided stl file with the 6 pieces. This does require supports.
Another way to print the pieces is to cut the hooks off of the pieces and connect them via a dovel. A proof of concept for this is provided in the attached prusa-slicer project file.
Difficulty
3 out of 5
The Printable Puzzle Project
The Printable Puzzle Project aims to make available high-quality open-source models of many puzzle designs. All of our models are posted with the generous permission of their designers and are licensed for non-commercial use only. Anyone may print copies for their own personal use, but selling or otherwise monetizing them is not permitted, and puzzle designers retain all rights as copyright holders of their work.
Our puzzles are modeled using the open-source puzzlecad library. The .scad file is included with this model in case you want to modify any of its design parameters; more information on how to do this can be found in the PPP Puzzle Modeling tutorial.
The "No Problem Puzzle Collection" contains many puzzles with complicated boxes that would be too hard to model using open-scad. Additionally the original design files for the boxes have been lost due to a hd-fault. That is why these puzzles only contain scad-files for the pieces.
About The Designers
From November 2020 to April 2023 Theo Geerinck and Symen Hovinga collaborated under the trading name of "No Problem Puzzles" to design and produce their puzzles. Many of their unique packing puzzles introduce fascinating features such as moving or sliding doors and elements. These features and the way they behave always add a playful new dimension to the more familiar exercise of packing shapes. Those puzzles could once be purchased through an online printing service. Alternatively, for those who owned a 3D printer the files could be obtained from Symen.
However, after the tragic loss of Symen, purchases through the ‘No Problem Shop’ was no longer possible. Therefore, Theo decided to publish the designs so that everybody can create 3d-printed copies to be enjoyed for personal use.