- Isosceles Tetrahedron, the basic block, showing positions for magnets.
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- Two blocks join to form a rhombic pyramid.
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- Three join to form a skewed triangular prism.
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- Four join to form one half of a tetrahedron (see 10).
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- Adding a block to each face of a central block indicates the basic repeating six block unit with square cross section, the sixth block occupying the groove at one end or the other.
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- Two rhombic pyramids (four blocks) join to form a vertically shortened octahedron.
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- Two prisms (six blocks) join at a shared short edge to form a rhombahedron, four of which in turn form a rhombic dodecahedron (below).
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- Five blocks join to form a symmetric shape which indicates the basic repeating six block unit with triangular cross section, the sixth block being added at one end of the other.
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- Stacking four square cross section units in a larger square indicates how blocks can be stacked in larger numbers, in this example 64 blocks with a central rhombic dodecahedron (11).
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- Adding blocks to four alternate (tetrahedral) faces of the octahedron (above) produces a double sized copy of the basic block.
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- Kepler's rhombic dodecahedron, built from 24 blocks. These "tile" all of space in the pattern of close packed spheres.
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- A single block is formed where the edges of two square beams intersect.
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