Puzzle Ring

**Acorn** · 18 December 2018, 12:25 PM

Here is a Challenge open to all - can you construct a vector design for this Puzzle Ring?

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To make it a little harder, my rings all have a 2pt White Line Width and the coloured widths are all 2cm.
The Green ring is 16cm diameter.
The other rings are just over 22 x 9 cm.

The sizes are mostly unimportant; I am looking for how the overlapping is addressed.

Acorn

**gwpriester** · 18 December 2018, 12:40 PM

The basics

**Acorn** · 18 December 2018, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

The basics

Thank you Gary.

I think the ellipses are the tricky part. Could you make one for me?

Acorn

**gwpriester** · 18 December 2018, 05:20 PM

This work?

**Marco D** · 18 December 2018, 07:23 PM

Here I am, a little late sorry...

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**Acorn** · 18 December 2018, 08:07 PM

@Gary, the complexity of this puzzle is the number of overlaps each ring suffers - all have four overlaps from the other rings. Your solution only manages two.

I split my rings by cloning the uppermost ring and slicing it into two parts so there is only a single crossing.

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The shadowing and edging is extremely well handled; my design fluffed the shadow until I realised I could group the final design before adding the shadow. I've always said you're a bit shady.

Could you describe how each ring has exactly a 2 cm banding?

@Marco, your solution seems to be perfectly symmetrical and a match for mine. Well done.

Can you answer the same question?

Acorn