I just haven't had any good ideas for a while, and if you don't have any ideas there's no point in doing anything.
Then on Friday I got bored waiting for some code to compile and I started making a Menger sponge.
Then on Friday I got bored waiting for some code to compile and I started making a Menger sponge.
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| Level 2 Menger sponge from the side |
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| Level 2 Menger sponge from the top |
That one is a level 2 Menger sponge. It's made up of 20 of these level 1 sponges, which in turn are each made up of 20 paper spirals pinched into little cubes.
I thought using spirals to make the Menger sponges would underline the fractal nature of the shape. Then I thought that if I made a whole bunch of Menger sponges I could arrange them into a landscape. An abstract landscape, of course. Cubist, even. But then a lot of city landscapes are rather cubist anyway. The subdivision across the gorge from my house is a case in point. So I went and got a big canvass, and I plan to make a relief sculpure of that subdivision with the Menger shapes. It'll be really fun if I can turn a boring housing development into an interesting landscape.
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| Level 1 Menger sponge |
I thought using spirals to make the Menger sponges would underline the fractal nature of the shape. Then I thought that if I made a whole bunch of Menger sponges I could arrange them into a landscape. An abstract landscape, of course. Cubist, even. But then a lot of city landscapes are rather cubist anyway. The subdivision across the gorge from my house is a case in point. So I went and got a big canvass, and I plan to make a relief sculpure of that subdivision with the Menger shapes. It'll be really fun if I can turn a boring housing development into an interesting landscape.
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