Rhombicosidodecahedron Maze

What, you ask, is a rhombicosidodecahedron? It's a complex polyhedron that combines perfect triangles, squares, and pentagons, and has several interesting mathematical properties. This is actually a "small rhombicosidodecahedron", and I've decided it's my favorite polyhedron. It shares properties with the dodecahedron, the icosahedron, and the rhombic triacontahedron, among others. Here is the maze: 3D Warehouse model


To solve, use Google Sketchup to rotate the maze. Start at the top and try to get to the bottom. I'll upload the solution after someone attempts it. This is similar to my Cube Maze because you have to orbit it to follow the pathways, but doesn't have any tunnels or holes, so it should be more doable. All of the triangles, squares, and pentagons are made from the same three components, which keeps the file size small. These components can be moved or rotated, which changes the maze. This is actually the third version, and the only one to connect all the pathways with a challenging solution. A helpful tip for solving is to explode all the components (right click -> explode), and then use the paint bucket tool to mark the pathways as you go.

Maze Revelation (Escape level)

I decided to add this Escape level as a maze, since it is more a true maze than any of my other Escape levels. It can only be solved by playing the game, since the maze is revealed as you go along. It's hard mostly because there are many routes to choose from, but you have to take them in the right order to solve it. Fortunately Escape has undo and start over buttons.

A trick to make it a lot easier is to push "d", which reveals the links between panels and their targets (called the D-map).

Corinne's Maze

My little sister Corinne drew this awesome maze a while ago, and I scanned it to put up here. As you can see, she has learned well from the master.

Wicker

Based on the weave of some wicker furniture, specifically an old rocking chair we used to have. I guess most kids don't sit and analyze the weave of their furniture, but I did, and now I've made a maze based on it!

Easter Egg

Yes, this was drawn directly on an egg while the rest of my family was using normal Easter egg dye. I made a page on my other site that lets you turn the egg around with a little javascript, which I haven't gotten to work on this site yet.








Solution

Eddies in the Space-time Continuum

"Ah," nodded Arthur, "Is he. Is he." He pushed his hands into the pockets of his dressing gown and looked knowledgeably into the distance.
"What?" said Ford.
"Er, who," said Arthur, "is Eddy, then?"
-- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

Actually, I originally called this maze "Snails", but that seems so undignified, and "Eddies" reflects the swirliness better. I doodle circles a lot, using the 3-point rule (if you have any three points in a plane, you can make a circle), and I can fill up whole sheets of paper with circles that touch each other at only three points, so this was kind of a version of that, but with spirals instead of plain circles. All freehand.




Solution

Snowflake

My brother cut this snowflake out of paper for Christmas, and I defaced it with my maze mania.

Black & White

Solution

Starfish

This starfish is radioactive!

Plain

Chain-mail

I had this one in my head for a long time before I managed to draw it. It was going to be bigger, but turned out to be so complicated to draw that I decided to keep it small. Again, I drew these circles freehand without any compass or tracing.



Black & White

Tangles

Drawn completely with a pen. No erasing allowed, but I did use white-out in a few spots afterward.

Whirlpool

Believe it or not, I drew this freehand without any compass or circles to trace.