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Tiling space with supertile of hypercube unfoldings
Two students in my class
asked and answered what might be a novel question.
It is well known that the cube has exactly $11$ edge-unfoldings
(or "nets"), as shown below:
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Tiling with one of each 3D shape
Encouraged by the positive solutions to my question,
Tiling with one of each shape,
I'd like to pose the $\mathbb{R}^3$ equivalent:
Q. Is there a tiling of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by (bounded) polyhedra, one ...
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16-cell honeycomb (4D tiling by cross-polytopes)
A 4-dimensional cross-polytope (also called 16-cell) is a regular polytope whose vertices are all permutations of $(\pm1,0,0,0)$. It is known that this body tiles the space $\mathbb{R}^4$ by ...