Space-filling polyhedron

In geometry, a space-filling polyhedron is a polyhedron that can be used to fill all of three-dimensional space via translations, rotations and/or reflections, where filling means that; taken together, all the instances of the polyhedron constitute a partition of three-space.

Any periodic tiling or honeycomb of three-space can in fact be generated by translating a primitive cell polyhedron.

Any parallelepiped tessellates Euclidean 3-space, as do the five parallelohedra including the cube, hexagonal prism, truncated octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron.

Other space-filling polyhedra include the pyramid, plesiohedra and stereohedra, polyhedra whose tilings have symmetries taking every tile to every other tile, including the gyrobifastigium, the triakis truncated tetrahedron, and the trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron.

The cube is the only Platonic solid that can fill space, although a tiling that combines tetrahedra and octahedra (the tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb) is possible.