The Soma Cube, Again - Cleve Moler on Mathematics and Computing
 

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Contents[URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/#4e61be2e-a733-4d6b-84ff-e29d52bccfd5"]Piet Hein[/URL][URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/#a8ed05f1-7d41-43eb-9c7c-37026c6476c1"]Bill McKeeman[/URL][URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/#4086583c-54fb-4c23-8fd2-87792dfd888e"]The original soma demo[/URL][URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/#c84cfc04-156f-4f0c-95b8-fdd0d26bf216"]A new Soma demo[/URL][URL="https://www.labfans.com/bbs/#6bc71397-5197-444d-aa7f-116bfaebff2e"]Software[/URL]Piet HeinPiet Hein (1905-1996) was an extraordinary Danish inventor, mathematician, poet and philosopher. He invented the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_cube"]Soma Cube puzzle[/URL] in 1933. I wrote a blog post about Hein and some of his creations several years ago, [URL="https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2016/03/28/piet-hein-super-ellipses-and-soma-cubes"]Soma Cube 2016[/URL].

The Soma Cube puzzle has seven pieces. One of them is a V-shaped piece made from three cubelets. The other six pieces are L, T, Z, R, S, and Y with four cubelets each. That's a total of 27 cubelets, just



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