Somatic
Somatic is a solver for arbitrary polyomino and polycube puzzles, like the soma puzzle. The soma puzzle is made from a set of 7 pieces, each build from 3 or 4 small cubes. With these pieces one can build a bigger cube made of 3x3x3=27 of the smaller cubes and a lot of other figures.
The soma puzzle piece set.
For an arbitrary set of pieces and a figure with not more than 64 cubes Somatic can check whether this figure can be build using these pieces and return one or more solutions. It does also solve split figures which are not connected and partial figures, which do not need all pieces to be build. Piece sets that can be solved include the soma cube, the somaplus set, the doublesoma set, the bedlam cube and the pentomino set. Other sets may be specified through an input file. Figures and solutions can be saved and read from a file again later. The GUI can be used to interactively create figures, solve them and view the solutions. The piece set currently in use can also be displayed.
Somatic is released under the GPL, which allows you to modify and redistribute it under certain conditions.
Download Screenshots Links Software Contact
Download
Please keep in mind that despite some version numbers in the distribution I consider most of Somatic alpha software. Here are the lates snapshots, updated whenever there is something to update.somatic-win-binary-20040406.zip
somatic-source-20040406.tar.bz2
Screenshots
A screenshot from the gui version, showing a solution of the original soma cube:
Two Animations created by Heiko, from an older version of Somatic:
Links
The two authors who wrote the original Somatic with me:
Stefan -Happe- Habelski
wrote the OpenGL code and created the nice editing and input
functionality.
Heiko -brotMachine- Seim
implemented the GUI and rendered the nifty icons.
Links to some puzzles/piece sets Somatic can handle:
The one true soma page, containing almost everything about the
original soma cube. Also contains information on somaplus and doublesome piece
sets.
http://www.fam-bundgaard.dk/SOMA/SOMA.HTM
The bedlam cube, due to its size a pretty difficult puzzle. It looks
like the guys who created it are actually selling (!) solutions.
http://www.bedlampuzzles.com
Another puzzle, created by the german computer magazin c't.
http://www.heise.de/ct/puzzle/
The classical pentomino puzzle.
http://home.scarlet.be/~demeod/
Software
Some of the software used to develop Somatic.The GNU c++ compiler.
http://gcc.gnu.org
The Fox Toolkit, a platform independent gui library, that supports
OpenGL. Required to build Somatic on your own.
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
OpenGL
http://www.opengl.org
Cygwin, a Unix enviroment for Windows, used to make Windows builds.
http://www.cygwin.com/
Valgrind, a very useful memory debugger.
http://valgrind.org/
Contact
Questions ? Comments ? Bugs ? Send me a mail to somatic-at-moerig.com. Hint: You need to replace -at- with @ ;).