Polyomino (EntityTopic, 5)

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A polyomino (also spelt polimino and polymino) is a collection of hypercubes joined so that one hypercell of one touches another hypercell of another. Polyominoes are named as follows:

• Monomino - one hypercube.
• Domino - two hypercubes.
• Triomino - three hypercubes.
• Quadromino - four hypercubes.

etc.

We can generalize sets of polyominoes as p(c,d) where c is the number of hypercubes and d is the number of dimensions.

In n dimensions, there are no new polyominoes that are not simply extrusions of n-1-dimensional polyominoes, if the number of hypercubes is equal to or less than the number of dimensions. In other words, p(c,d) = p(c,d-1) if d ≥ c.

Here is a table of the polyominoes available with various c and d:

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Octominoes

There are two special properties about octominoes:

• The first polyomino with a pocket is an octomino.
• The first polyomino with no linear symmetry, but rotational symmetry of order 4 is an octomino.