Message #852

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Fractal cubes
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:59:11 -0800

Have a look at the following image. It brings together two of my
favorite subjects: Fractals and Rubik’s cubes.

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I have no idea what’s behind it. Has someone actually built a fractal
twisty puzzle? If not, would that be possible? I expect that a working
fractal cube would feel very much like a 3D version of Roice’s Magic
Tile in which each area is repeated across space but at multiple scales
in addition to translations and rotations.

Fascinated,
-Melinda