John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> PM 2Ring wrote:
>
> > The Soma cube was invented by Danish physicist Piet Hein in the early 1930s,
> > while doodling at a lecture given by Heisenberg.
>
> He probably accomplished more during that lecture than anyone else who
> attended it.

Maybe, but I'm uncertain. :)

He must've had brilliant powers of 3D visualization to realize the Soma
pieces could fit together to make a cube, just from a few sketches.

Here's a stereo pair. Change the file extension to .jps to view with
DepthCharge or with the Andreas Petersik's Stereoscope Applet.

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