Post by: gunug on August 27, 2006, 11:32:17 AM
This fractal pattern, called a Menger's Sponge, was made by Dr. Jeannine Mosley and her, undoubtedly, thousands of assistants. 66,048 business cards, how many do you have in your wallet?
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Menger’s Sponge - named for its inventor Karl Menger and sometimes wrongly called Sierpinski’s Sponge – was the first three dimensional fractal that mathematicians became aware of. In 1995 Dr Jeannine Mosely, a software engineer, set out to build a level 3 Menger Sponge from business cards. After 9 years of effort, involving hundreds of folders all over America, the Business Card Menger Sponge was completed. The resulting object is comprised of 66,048 cards folded into 8000 interlinked sub-cubes, with the entire surface paneled to reveal the Level 2 and Level 3 fractal iterations.
For more info: http://www.machineproject.com/
Post by: Parker on August 28, 2006, 12:42:26 AM
they have to be glued together (which you would think would be cheating)
20 LEFT GUNUG!!!
Post by: Paddy on August 28, 2006, 01:21:58 AM
http://theiff.org/oexhibits/paper06.html
Scroll down - right at the bottom they have the instructions - including a PDF download - no glue at all. I'll try it tomorrow. (have to find 6 business cards I don't want anymore!)
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To make a cube out of six business cards, first take two cards and place them across each other at right angles, centering them as nearly as possible. Fold the flaps of the bottom card down over the top card. Turn them over and repeat. Pull the two cards apart. Six of them can be assembled as shown below to make a cube. All flaps must be on the outside of the finished cube.
Two cubes can be linked by positioning them as shown. Take the two flaps on one face and tuck them under the corners of the two flaps on the adjacent face of the other cube. The joint is surprisingly strong! You can keep adding cubes like this to build any structure you can think of.
Two cubes can be linked by positioning them as shown. Take the two flaps on one face and tuck them under the corners of the two flaps on the adjacent face of the other cube. The joint is surprisingly strong! You can keep adding cubes like this to build any structure you can think of.
Post by: Parker on August 28, 2006, 01:23:48 AM
Post by: krissel on August 28, 2006, 02:43:54 AM
But some of the drawings have improper/incomplete perspective and make me cringe.
Like this one:
Post by: gunug on August 28, 2006, 06:18:58 AM
Post by: krissel on August 28, 2006, 06:38:15 AM
Post by: gunug on August 28, 2006, 01:09:12 PM
A guy named Derek van Westrum has had this tattoo since 1990; this was a follow up on Boing-boing to the other story!
Post by: Frances144 on August 28, 2006, 03:05:56 PM
That is what happens when you live in the middle of nowhere, never more than 4 miles from the sea/ocean (depending on which side you are), with no fast food joints, no chain stores and the nearest pub is 45 minutes away.
I love it here!
Post by: krissel on August 29, 2006, 01:01:31 AM
QUOTE(gunug @ Aug 28 2006, 02:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hey Krissel - Different artist, different media; you might not like this either:
Perspective is off on that one, too, but I suppose he could flex his muscle and alter the appearance.
Post by: gunug on August 29, 2006, 04:44:33 AM
