Dissecting a Cube into a Golden Acute Rhombohedron and Three Congruent Rectangular Solids

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This Demonstration shows a seven-piece dissection of a cube into an acute golden rhombohedron and three congruent rectangular solids. The viewpoint changes with the slider. Any one of the rectangular solids can be reassembled into a quarter of a Bilinski dodecahedron.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (April 2019)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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[I] I. Hafner and T. Zitko, "From Dissection of the Cube to Space Filling with Prolate Rhombohedra and Rhombic Dodecahedra of the Second Kind," Visual Mathematics 4(2), 2002. www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/vismath/hafner4/SFVisual.html.



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