{"id":28616,"date":"2026-07-31T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28616"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:41:13","slug":"soma-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28616","title":{"rendered":"Soma cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I felt motivated to explore the wonders of Piet Hein&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soma_cube\">Soma cube<\/a>. So I did what I usually do &#8212; I made a computer graphic version of it.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much more to explore about this fascinating 3D puzzle. Meanwhile, you can see my first experiments with it by clicking on the image below.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cs.nyu.edu\/perlin\/soma\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/soma.png\" width=\"250\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I felt motivated to explore the wonders of Piet Hein&#8217;s Soma cube. So I did what I usually do &#8212; I made a computer graphic version of it. There is so much more to explore about this fascinating 3D puzzle. Meanwhile, you can see my first experiments with it by clicking on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soma cube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28621,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28616\/revisions\/28621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}