Nuclear masses and binding energies are some of the first nuclear properties met in high school
physics, and can be used to introduce radioactive decays, fusion, and fission. With relatively
little extension, they can also illustrate fundamental concepts in nuclear physics, such as shell
structure and pairing, and to discuss how the elements around us were formed in stars. One way of
visualising these nuclear properties is through the nuclide chart, which maps all nuclides as a
function of their proton and neutron numbers. Here we use the nuclide chart to illustrate various
aspects of nuclear physics, and present 3D visualisations of it produced as part of the binding
blocks project.