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An Octahedron Made of Cubes

Posted on 6 October 2014 by RobertLovesPi

Software credit: I made this using Stella 4d, which is available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

3 thoughts on “An Octahedron Made of Cubes”

teachezwell on 7 October 2014 at 12:59 said:

This one is truly mesmerizing!

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- RobertLovesPi on 7 October 2014 at 20:49 said:
  
  Thank you. This has also turned (on a separate, single-purpose blog, for use at school) into two interesting problems for my students — how many cubes are here, if (A) the figure is hollow, so only the visible cubes need be counted, and (B) the figure is filled with tightly-packed unit cubes. I won’t post the answers here, for that would spoil your fun, and that of other readers of my blog, if any of you want to figure it out for yourselves. 🙂
  
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  - teachezwell on 7 October 2014 at 21:08 said:
    
    Hmm, if I have a month or two….
    
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