Pentaspheres
Five touching spheres in the face-centered cubic grid are called pentaspheres.
There are 210 different pieces, which I made up of colored rubber balls. At the bottom of the picture you can
see the twelve pentomino like pieces, whereas the pentahexes are scattered.
I constructed 21 roofs of same size with 10 pentaspheres each.
To display the roofs I put them on a special shelf.
Lots of tetrahedrons can also be constructed. Using all pieces I built six tetrahedrons,
two of size 13 and four of size 5.
It's even possible to get 20 tetrahedrons: 4xT3 + 4xT4 + 6xT5 + 6xT8.
Some other constructions with pictures of the layers are shown at the
polyspheres part of my site.
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