Baiocchi Figures for Polyaboloes

A Baiocchi figure is a figure formed by joining copies of a polyform and having the maximal symmetry for the polyform's class. For polyaboloes, that means the symmetry of a square.

Claudio Baiocchi proposed the idea in January 2008. Baiocchi figures first appeared in Erich Friedman's Math Magic for that month.

Here are minimal known Baiocchi figures for polyaboloes of orders 1 through 5. Not all these solutions are uniquely minimal.

Monabolo

Diaboloes

Triaboloes

Impossible

Holeless Variants

Tetraboloes

Impossible

Holeless Variants

Impossible

Pentaboloes

Impossible

Hexaboloes

Impossible

Last revised 2012-10-14.


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