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Cubic Close Packing Cube

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Close-packed layers of spheres can be stacked to form a cubic close packing by shifting every second layer. Mark the spheres on axes or at corners and place a cube at the center. The yellow spheres are at the corners of the cube.

Contributed by: Michael Schreiber (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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