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 | | Some time ago I had asked about polyhedra that tile space and got this response: ----------------------- Hop David observes that Euclidean 3-space can be monohedrally tiled with cubes, rhombic dodecahedra, truncated octahedra, triangular prisms, and hexagonal prisms and asks whether there are others. |
 | | Leaving aside the tiling by rhombic dodecahedra, which is the dual of a uniform tiling by regular tetrahedra and octahedra, there are just five uniform monohedral tilings of Euclidean 3-space. |
 | | These are the regular tiling {4, 3, 4}, with cubic cells; the "bitruncated" {4, 3, 4}, with truncated octahedral cells; the dual tilings {3, 6} x {oo} and {6, 3} x {oo}, with triangular or hexagonal prismatic cells; and one other tiling, by triangular prisms arranged in a different way. |
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