Picture Hanging Puzzle

Just attended a nice talk by Erik Demaine on Origami and puzzles. He demonstrated some remarkable stuff and ended with a cute picture hanging puzzle – how to hang a puzzle with two nails such that by removing either one, the picture drops. A brief description is at the end of the following paper

http://erikdemaine.org/papers/FUN2004i_TheoryComputSys/paper.pdf

and a preprint dated 2004 that seem to be still unavailable is announced. I would love to have a look at that illusive paper.

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One Response to Picture Hanging Puzzle

  1. Chris says:

    In case you haven’t seen the preprint;
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3602
    Enjoy :)

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