And furthermore, although again he was not the first to produce these commercially, his commercial efforts were of a different league to previous efforts. However, Palmer’s work, in contrast to the other, earlier references, can be considered as of a more thoughtful, considered nature. Likely, indeed almost certainly, the earlier references are all likely independently of each other. Rather, Palmer can be considered to have brought jigsaw tessellations of this type to prominence (although as I learnt from his son, Kelvin, tessellation per se was not the guiding principle here) in which he produced a series of seven such puzzles, in contrast to his predecessors, which were very much of a one-off (or very near) nature. However, Palmer was not the first person to have conceived the idea (as I discuss below, with 'forerunners'). Palmer can be considered as if not the founding father of these, than who brought the genre to prominence (as well as ‘Jumble Fits’), with the insinuation of the pieces ‘clustering’. The term ‘Cluster Puzzle’ (of which I now propose to serve as the defining description of the genre it not previously having a categorical title) is taken from the work of Alex Palmer, of the US. ![]() The difference here is that the tiles do not repeat in any way. However, this can also describe a ‘normal’ tessellation. ![]() Contrast that with a ‘normal’ jigsaw, where the piece is only a very small part of the picture. Ideally, these are of many different individual pieces so that a jigsaw like appearance is obvious. Simply stated, these pieces can be described, in jigsaw terminology (of which genre these are generally to be found), of ‘every piece a picture’ that is, each piece is of a (ideally) whole real-life figure, such as an animal, or object. First, what exactly is a ‘cluster puzzle’ tessellation? From this bare description alone, the premise is not at all obvious.
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