Tesserae Sim

Self-assembling polyhedral tiles with polarity-coded edge magnets, in microgravity. Target: truncated icosahedron, 12 pentagons + 20 hexagons, 90 joints.
joints latched
0 / 90
largest cluster
1 / 32
fragments
32
mis-joints
0
strained
0
sensed stuck
0
rejection pulses
0
kinetic energy
0.00
sim time
0.0 s
fps
Edge magnet codes
pentagon edge ++++
hexagon, faces pentagon −−−−
hexagon, faces hexagon ++−−
north pole
south pole
Only P↔A and B↔B attract. P↔P and A↔A repel, so the coding alone forbids every joint the target shape does not contain.
rejecting: edges reversed
coasting: magnets off
A tile that stays held with every latch open is stuck, not joined. It reverses its free edges to shove off, then coasts on no magnets and comes back at a different orientation.