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- From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,rec.games.abstract
- Subject: Re: Game of pentominos
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.153642.6932@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:36:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.154734.23894@odin.diku.dk> <pete.03it@bignode.equinox.gen.nz> <1992Dec18.113318.11871@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- umatf071@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (sio) writes:
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- >The 4th Pentacube Contest 92/93
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- > Build the figure "volcano" with all 29 pentacubes.
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- [most deleted]
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- Does this mean that a company produces a game based on the 29 possible
- figures made from 5 cubes? If so, do they have copyright to the actual
- shape of the pieces? I find it doubtful that such a claim would hold,
- as the shapes are of mathematical nature and thus not copyrightable.
- Any rules for the game will be copyrightable though.
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- I made (about 5 years ago) a puzzle out of the 29 "pentacubes". Does
- this predate the game?
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- Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
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