Soma cube Soma cube The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein in 1933 during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg. Its name is alleged to be derived from the fictitious drug "soma" consumed as a pastime by the establishment in Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel "Brave New World". Seven pieces made out of unit cubes must be assembled into a 3×3×3 cube. The pieces can also be used to make a variety of other 3D shapes. The pieces of the Soma cube consist of all possible combinations of three or four unit cubes, joined at
Pantriagonal magic cube Pantriagonal magic cube A pantriagonal magic cube is a magic cube where all 4"m" pantriagonals sum correctly. There are 4 one-segment, 12("m" − 1) two-segment, and 4("m" − 2)("m" − 1) three-segment pantriagonals. This class of magic cubes may contain some simple magic squares and/or pandiagonal magic squares, but not enough to satisfy any other classifications. The constant for magic cubes is "S" = "m"("m" + 1)/2. A proper pantriagonal magic cube has 7"m" lines summing correctly. It contains "no" magic squares. Order 4 is the smallest pantriagonal magic cube possible. A pantriagonal magic cube is the 3-dimensional equivalent of