Triangular puzzle - who can solve this ;)

[Morbid Angel]

I posted this on the russian forum no one could solve it so here we go:
I started out as a modeler, maya/max anything that models, so as my friend. And we used to be able to solve every problem/puzzle in modeling world until this came along not long ago.
See image below....you have a given object topology of which has all quads and a single triangle. Problem: remove the triangle to make all quads without affecting the border edge. So in simple terms, inside of the object you can model all you want but you cant absolutly touch the border edge, nor poke holes in the mesh.
good luck


Here is the obj
http://www3.telus.net/public/vinnik8.../triPuzzle.obj

[percydaman]

here ya go:



Youll notice that all faces have 4 sides....

[RErender]

Don't the outer ones have 7?

[percydaman]

DOH! Damn your eagle eyes!!

[Morbid Angel]

percy haha...nice try....
hey is that quote about the angry girl from battlestar galactica?

[RErender]

like this?

[RErender]

Ahh, damn just saw my mistake :P

It's impossible!

[Morbid Angel]

reRender - cant have nsided

[jujubee]

I think n-sided is a new rule. Angry girl from BSG?- Tricia Helfer in the red dress??? Meant to ask you (and not get too far off topic) - you guys get a chance to work with BSG's design team? They're out in Vancouver...

[Morbid Angel]

not only did we desgin the entire bsg we also did a lot of visual fx

[percydaman]

sounds familiar doesn't it? i think it might be from battlestar galactica, but am not sure....one of those things that just pops up in your head and cant be sure where it came from... I think eric bana said something along those lines in "the hulk."

[Morbid Angel]

yes yes it is, from bsg and from hulk....but in hulk its he who gets angry and in bsg its a she

[Da_elf]

ok look. if you make us do this for a couple of days then tell us that there is no solution ill be pissed hehehe

[percydaman]

theres no solution...

[Morbid Angel]

haha....dont be pissed... frankly I dont know if there is a solution for this. But we narrowed it down to a simple math:
if you have 4 + 4 = 8 then 8/2 or /4 will give you an even number. But if you have 3+4 = 7 and then 7/4/2 will give you an odd number which will result in a eather always a triangular edge or 5 sided edge