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Yenn’s “1/6th of a cube,” revisited

Ok.  So here’s the 1/6th of a cube, assembled.  It consists of 3 each of right- and left-handed units, fitted together appropriately.

There was something darned difficult (for me) about visualizing this - I had to actually make the pieces and then look at them before I could convince my brain that they would go together into a cube!  (This may relate to my trouble with visualizing cuboctahedral symmetry, too - something about the square and cube diagonals is hard for me to picture, go figure.  Must go spend more time with my green Zome pieces!)

In the first small picture, you’re seeing two (one each of the left- and right-handed) modules.  The long diagonal across the photo is going to end up being the corner-to-far-corner cube diagonal.  The two edges at the bottom are the sides of the cube, and the diagonal kind of heading towards the viewer is the diagonal of one face of the cube.  (Confused yet?)

The second small shot is of all three pairs of left- and right-handed units.  We’ve got all we need, now, to build the cube.

The third small shot is of four pieces together; we’re looking down the long axis diagonally across the cube.

And the final shot is another view of all six pieces together.  You can compare it and the large shot to see two sides of the cube.

Hope that makes the assembly clear!  Oh, and I should note that it does not stay together, the pieces just slide off each other - for the photos, I cheated, and used double-sided sticky tape!

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