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	Soma cube
		The Soma cube is a mathematical puzzle by Piet Hein.
		The soma cube is often regarded as the 3d equivalent of tangrams.
		Soma has been discussed in detail by Martin Gardner and John Conway.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Soma_cube.html (203 words)

	Puzzles: Soma Cube
		The Soma Cube differs however, in that it is made of 27 cubes which are glued into seven unique configurations.
		There are 6 shapes made of 4 cubes each, and 1 shape made of 3 cubes.
		For example: 4 cubes make an "L" shape, 4 cubes make a "T" shape, 4 cubes make a "Z" shape, and three other configurations are made of 4 cubes each.
	gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca /VirtualExhibits/puzzles/soma/index.html (269 words)

	Soma cube
		In a moment of genius, Hein grasped that the result of combining all seven of the irregular shapes that can be made from no more than four unit cubes joined at their faces is a single larger (3 × 3 × 3) cube.
		The Soma cube was first brought to popular attention by Martin Gardner in his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American in 1958.
		The pieces can also be used to make a variety of other interesting three-dimensional shapes so that the Soma cube is often regarded as a three-dimensional analog of Tangrams.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Soma_Cube.html (244 words)

	Soma Cube Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The soma cube consists of 7 irregular pieces which can be put together to form a 3x3x3 cube in 240 different ways.
		The position of the cube in the viewing plane is changed (rotated) by grabbing a outside corner and dragging it to the new position.
		The position of the cube in the other dimensions is changed by grabbing the cube at any point near the center and dragging the point to the new desired position.
	www.cs.dartmouth.edu /~mckeeman/programs/soma/somadisplay.html (188 words)

	The Soma Cube Puzzle - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the Summer of 1969, Parker Brothers Inc. produced a commercial version of the puzzle known as the Soma Cube.
		The Soma Cube's discoverer, Piet Hein, a Danish poet and inventor, first envisioned the cube while attending a lecture on quantum physics.
		In addition to the cube, Soma enthusiasts have discovered many figures which can be made from the seven Soma pieces.
	www.geocities.com /dnehen/soma/soma.htm (645 words)

	The Soma Cube
		The Soma cube is not really a cube and it's also not (really) a drug.
		The Soma-cube was conceived, according to Martin Gardner [1], by the Danish writer Piet Hein in 1936 during a lecture on quantum physics by Werner Heisenberg (You know from that (un-) certain principle).
		Soma constructions lend themselves to fascinating theorems and impossibility proofs of combinatorial geometry.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/C.Eggermont/Puzzels/Soma (490 words)

	Puzzle - soma cube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Likewise pentomino or tangram, the pieces of soma cube can be arranged into several different configurations.
		It is also possible to arrange all the pieces into a cube and put it into a box.
		The soma cube was developed in 1936 by the Danish poet and puzzle creator Piet Hein.
	www.from.okay.pl /~burczyk/origami/g2-01-en.htm (199 words)

	SOMA From Best Online Pharmacies! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The history soma puzzle creator piet hein was a full of the drugs on the sea were even squattier than what is c12h24n2o4.
		Well i want soma we have one of the drug for picture a cube as soma share a game soma is build services and independent of yours.
		Fixed drug in sight seeing for soma is not use in the text is a or the behavior of, who did feel inclined to his magicians.
	hometown.aol.com /lveset/soma.html (606 words)

	3D Puzzles - Soma Cube
		The Soma cube is discovered by Piet Hein during a dull symposium.
		He drew several combinations of cubes and discovered that if you take all possible combinations of three or four cubes in which always at least one ankle must be, you get seven pieces with a total of 27 cubes.
		To make a cube using the seven pieces is not very difficult, but you can make much more shapes just like with the Tangram puzzle, but now in 3D.
	www.3dpuzzles.nl /puzzles/soma/engdescription.htm (252 words)

	Soma Cube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Soma piece 2 must always form a corner and must not lie in the middle.
		Soma was the name of an addictive drug used in the fictional state in Huxley's book which is set in the year 2600.
		The Soma Cube Puzzle - 2 (inter alia: Bury the 7, The Balancing Soma Cube)
	www.mathematische-basteleien.de /somacube.htm (1044 words)

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	soma.podomatic.com (1529 words)

	Soma cube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg.
		Left screw tetracube: unit cube placed on top of anticlockwise side.
		Similar to Soma cube is the 3D Pentomino puzzle, which can fill boxes of 2×3×10, 2×5×6 and 3×4×5 units.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soma_cube (347 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Soma Cube
		The cube was the creation of Piet Hein, who was inspired during a physics lecture to consider the simplest shapes formed from cubes.
		If you have the patience (it can be a little fiddly) this Soma site provides a Java applet which lets you build your own Soma cube (or a number of other shapes) from the pieces, and can provide a solution if you become too frustrated by the puzzle.
		The Soma Cube can be used to teach various mathematical concepts and this page is useful if you want to use the cube's pieces as a basis for maths projects.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1064936 (944 words)

	Soma Cube Central
		There are 240 different ways to form the Soma Cube.
		The seven pieces are formed by joining no more than four cubes at their faces in an irregular way.
		It may be helpful to take the cube apart, one level at a time, recording the top level, then the middle, and then the bottom.
	www.highland.madison.k12.il.us /jbasden/somacube/construction.html (434 words)

	Other Soma Designs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If the full Soma cube is to be supported on an external pedestal (such as the L piece from another Soma set), a valid solution can be obtained.
		There are many solutions to the basic 3 x 3 cube design, but none in which the Y piece is imbedded in the center of the cube, with only its "arms" showing as the center squares on three of the the cube's faces.
		We've added many new designs to the Soma Gallery, including two gondolas (one with a hidden cavity), a pyramid with a removable "roof", a pillbox, a hollow cube, two large snakes and a couple of turrets.
	www.balmoralsoftware.com /soma/other.htm (447 words)

	Puzzles -- LEGO
		The picture to the right (which may be clicked to enlarge) shows three cubes made of LEGO bricks so that their proportions are 5, 4, and 3 (the fl 3x3x3 cube is a little hard to see).
		Obviously, if each cube were made of individual unit cube pieces, one could disassemble the three cubes and reform a single larger cube of size 6x6x6 (it would be made of 216 little unit cubes).
		Anyway, using red, white, and blue LEGO bricks I constructed the pieces and assembled the three cubes as well as the single large (6x6x6) cube.
	www.ericharshbarger.org /lego/puzzles.html (1620 words)

	Soma Applet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Soma puzzle was a game marketed by Parker Brothers, Co. around 1970 that was based, in turn, upon an idea attributed to the mathematician Piet Hein.
		Its basis is the theorem that a solid cube composed of a volume of 27 smaller cubes can be decomposed into a group of 7 dissimilar pieces each composed of 4 (in one case, 3) cubes, each of which is a unique configuration of such cubes.
		To rotate a piece, pick the face of the cube through which you want the axis of rotation to penetrate.
	users.ids.net /~salberg/soma/Soma.html (227 words)

	Radut's Cube, the missing link between Soma Cube and Rubik's Bricks \| Puzzle iT
		The pieces are generated from a cube by detaching a 1/8 cube (or a prism) and then gluing it back in a different position.
		Both cube versions have only eight pieces generated from a cube and the solution is also a cube.
		The pieces are generated from a cube by detaching a small cube which is 1/8 of the initial cube volume.
	www.puzzle.ro /en/3dradut.htm (251 words)

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		Aside from cubes, there are thousands of geometric shapes that can be created from the seven simple Soma pieces.
		The Soma puzzle cube was created years ago by the Danish mathematician and poet Piet Hein.
		The Soma cube consist of seven different polycubes, the threedimensional analogues of polyominoes.
	www.lycos.com /info/soma--soma-cube.html (144 words)

	The Soma Cube
		The SOMA cube was invented by Piet Hein, a Danish poet, dreamer, mathematician and genius; way back in 1936.
		Sadly, the disco-erazoic Soma Cube was smothered away into extinction by another puzzle during the pre-rappazoic period.
		Prez developed a Soma viewer, which in turn displays all of the 500+ figures but does not reveal the entire answer; it does however supply a single hint...
	www.geocities.com /abcmcfarren/soma/soma.htm (910 words)

	3D Soma Puzzle - Free to download 3D puzzle classic to play on your PC \| Attention! The game is very addictive!
		3D Soma Puzzle is a three-dimensional logic game that challenges you to assemble various figures with the colored irregular blocks.
		The puzzle seems to be simple but great variety of solutions for each shape (the simplest figure - cube can be solved by 240 essentially different methods) makes it really challenging.
		3D Soma Puzzle features fully rotatable three-dimensional blocks, ability to create your own figures that can be shared with other players, two preview modes (wireframe and solid) and flexible controls system (you can assemble figures using mouse and/or keyboard).
	www.yavsoft.com /soma (257 words)

	a soma cube for a baby
		I constructed a Soma cube, for my baby son, out of children's wooden bricks.
		The cubes were bought from Hamleys (in London), but (obviously) any cubes will do.
		A local manufacturer can assemble these Soma cubes at a total cost of £30 (+postage).
	www.haviker.co.uk /soma (167 words)

	Animal Cube (Soma)
		In this novel about a futuristic society Soma was an addictive drug which transported the user into a dream like state.
		The seven pieces represent all the ways in which three or four cubes can be joined in an irregular way.
		The pieces not only assemble into a cube in 240 different ways but also into many other interesting forms.
	www.puzzles.force9.co.uk /gall4/anicube.htm (118 words)

	Soma Cube
		The usual dosage soma cube of Soma is one 350-milligram tablet, taken 3 times daily and at bedtime.
		Complete soma muscle online text of the novel (455 k) sedatives such as phenobarbital (Solfoton, Luminal), amobarbital (Amytal), and secobarbital (Seconal); It took many years of severe austerities, such as fasting every other day for a year, freezing winter ocean baths, kundalini yoga, and social seclusion to be able to experience
		Aside from buy soma cubes, there are thousands of Though well respected for its American-Mediterranean menu, this polished restaurant is best known for its impressive wine list.
	teddyhome.50webs.com /soma-cube.html (1565 words)

	Bruce Cropley's Weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When I was young, I used to play with a wooden puzzle called the Soma Cube.
		It is a 3x3x3 cube that can be formed by arranging the 7 pieces.
		It was a 4x4x4 cube, made of 13 pieces.
	jroller.com /page/cropleyb?entry=soma_solver (382 words)

	Millennium Puzzles - Soma Cube
		The Soma Cube - one of the most outstanding puzzles of the 20th century.
		The ingenious Soma Cube was invented by the Danish poet, philosopher, mathematician and scientist Piet Hein (1905-1996).
		Besides his Soma Cube, he discovered a new geometrical form called "the super-ellipse" and then developed its 3D version - "the super-ellipsoide" mostly called "the super egg." He developed a very popular strategy game for two players - Hex.
	www.puzzles.com /Projects/MillenniumPuzzles/SomaCube.htm (763 words)

	Cube from business cards
		If done correctly, it will be very stable and will be a near perfect cube (having the flaps slightly unequal has little effect on the design, but the flaps must be parallel with the height of the business card.
		It is also possible to tuck the flaps from two cubes into one another, but this method of cube combination is less effective and a little more challenging.
		Combined cubes will not require cubes on concealed faces, do not panel your cubes until you have finished combining them.
	origami.kvi.nl /models/units/cardcube.htm (639 words)

	The Soma Cube
		It is a surprising fact, discovered by Piet Hien, that these shapes can be arranged to form a cube with side length 3.
		Additionally, the cube can be formed in 240 different ways.
		Puzzle enthusiasts have also created a number of arrangement puzzles of their own (slightly more imaginative than a cube), using the soma cube pieces.
	math.dartmouth.edu /~leejstem/mathematrix/somacube.html (122 words)

	Giant Soma Cube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We did a children's show one spring and we used the soma cube for the setting.
		The cubes were made of a framework of 3/4 in tubing welded together rightly enough,
		I did not invent the soma cube, it was a popular toy in the 1960's.
	www.boardspace.net /english/giant-cube.html (177 words)

	KNOX Wooden Toys, Puzzles & Games : Soma Summarum
		The Soma Summarum was designed for the IPP22 Design Competition 2002 in Antwerp and it's solution represents one of the 240 solutions of Piet Hein's Soma Cube, invented in 1936.
		Aim of the puzzle is to assemble the cube so that a weaving pattern is visible all the way round.
		The Soma Summarum belongs to the group of “ Liquorice Sorted Cubes ”.
	www.knoxpuzzles.com /Products/SomaSummarumEn.html (86 words)

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