Monthly Archives: January 2025

In preparation for the announced JMM build, we worked out some kinks this past weekend with a practice build.

Since the final structure is just shy of 17 feet tall, it was important to have a venue with high ceilings. The Seattle Universal Math Museum has an ongoing partnership with the Georgetown Steam Plant, who generously offered their boiler room. (For fun, you can use their virtual tour to navigate yourself to the boiler room, as featured in the photos below.)

On Wednesday, 2025 January 8th at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, Studio Infinity will be facilitating a group build using Giant Octablocks. If you follow our projects, you might recognize them as the trunctated octahedra from the TOWARD build at Harvey Mudd College or from a freestyle build at Open Sauce 2024. This time we will be leveraging the fact that the hexagonal faces of the blocks are at the perfect angles to build within a diamond cubic crystal structure if we restrict ourselves to a subset of four of them per block. The end goal — a Diamond Lattice Tower: