Other 3D Shape Assembly
Although cubes and various types of burrs are common shapes for assembly puzzles,
beautiful craftsmanship,
often from wood,
has gone into puzzles of many geometric shapes.
Well known work on geometric puzzles
going back to the 1970's
has been by
Stewart Coffin;
see for example
his book
The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections,
as well as his
Ap-Art book
that catalogs the many puzzles he has made.
See also the books of
Greg Frederickson,
including
Dissections Plane and Fancy
and
others.
Rhombic Polyhedra Puzzles
Part 1
and
Part 2,
by
George Bell and Stephen Chin,
documents some of the beautiful work by
Interlocking Puzzles
in the 1980's.
Some geometric puzzles employ coordinate motion
(a term used by Stewart Coffin)
where pieces must be slide together simultaneously when assembling;
for example see the
Three Pairs
puzzle..