Nan Ma made five vZome 3D projections of the 6-cube which could be built with Zometool struts of the same color. Apparently, these struts also have the same length. Paulo Freire already made physical models of three of these. All but one of the models do suffer from crossing struts due to the projection from 6D to 3D.So does the all-blue projection: 78 pairs of crossing struts must be dealt with in the physical Zometool model. 72 of these intersections have been replaced by false vertices, each connecting four regular Zometool struts. These false vertices are represented by blue connectors. The 6-cube only has 63 distinct 3D ball positions after projection. These are represented by white connectors.
3D printing is used to handle the remaining six pairs of crossing b1’s:
Besides the six 3D-printed objects, the model requires 36 b0’s, 132 b1’s, 72 b2’s and 84 b3’s: