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 6. Not all these solutions are uniquely minimal.

Abaroth found improvements for some of my solutions.

Monabolo

Diaboloes

Triaboloes

Impossible

Holeless Variants

Tetraboloes

Impossible

Holeless Variants

Impossible

Pentaboloes

Impossible

Holeless Variants

Hexaboloes

Impossible

Last revised 2022-08-16.


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