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26-Piece Dissection of a Cube

This Demonstration gives a symmetrical decomposition of a cube into eight golden prolate rhombohedra plus six halves and 12 quarters of a rhombic dodecahedron of the second kind.

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I. Hafner and T. Zitko, "From Dissection of the Cube to Space Filling with Prolate Rhombohedra and Rhombic Dodecahedra of the Second Kind," Visual Mathematics 4(2), 2002.

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"26-Piece Dissection of a Cube" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
 http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/26PieceDissectionOfACube/
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner




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