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From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
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Subject: Re: ML tetris (and Hextris)
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Date: 26 Apr 91 15:54:49 GMT
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In article <1627@fs1.ee.ubc.ca>, jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
|> Hextris looks interesting, but let me suggest  something a little more different:
|> 
|> how about a tetris with 5 fold symmettry?? I think you need only two pieces (parallograms)
|> with angles involving 36 and 72 degrees (ie the golden mean is in there somewhere).
|> Tetris is just a tesselation problem, so this five-fold tetris could be very interesting,
|> especially since there is no general algorithm (so they say).
|> 
|> yah, we could call it Pentris (Penrosetris?)

Surely you jest. :-)

Seriously, has anyone seen the three-dimensional Tetris?  I believe I saw an
arcade video game of this once.  Each piece was composed of four CUBES and
fell into a rectangular-prismic play area.  Rotation was possible around three
axes, and translation was over a plane instead of just right and left.  The
player had to fill in a whole plane, rather than just a line.

I think I'll have to pass on the three-dimensional Penro-hextris...

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