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by zahlman 310 days ago
... But that's as far as you could take it, since 16-gons would show at least 7 faces while only having an encoding for 4.

I also thought of using hexagonal prisms, showing two faces at a time in paired colours but using three colours. These would also need much less clearance in order to rotate freely, compared to face-on cubes.