RSSIFF - Business Card Sponge Opening
If you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend, head on over to the Institute for Figuring's new exhibit opening, The Business Card Menger Sponge by Dr. Jeannine Mosely. The exhibit will be on display from August 26 - September 24, 2006 at Machine Project (1200 D North Alvarado, Los Angeles). From the site: "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 1 and Level 2 fractal iterations. " Link.
This Weekend:
Opening: Saturday August 26, 7-10pm
Lecture: Sunday September 10, 8pm - "Structural Considerations of the Business Card Sponge" by Dr Mosely.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Aug 25, 2006 03:00 PM
Events |
Permalink
| Comments (3)
Recent Entries
- HOW TO - build a water mortar
- Jake's steamcar project, dashboard redo
- Build your own water quality tester
- MAKE @ Yahoo! Buzz
- Made in Japan Vol. 3
- Super Breakout version allows for competitive or collaborative gaming
- How DIYers just might revive American innovation
- Light-Field camera makes blurry images a thing of the past
- Make a pizza box solar oven
- DIY Security system calls your phone
Comments
Oldest comments listed first.
Wow - back at IIT in the early '70s a few friends and I built a roughly 1x3x6 foot "monolith" from Hollerith cards this way (i.e. old computer punch cards). It ended up being deliberately lit on fire and thrown off a roof for use in a homemade film.
The cubes were larger (as the cards were); the cards were free (they were the *only* practical way for most of us to get programs into the university's single computer - a Univac 1108.
"Good old days" my foot...
Subscribe to MAKE Magazine!
Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available only to subscribers.
$34.95 / 1 year
(4 Quarterly Issues)
Features and more @ MAKE!
MAKE @ The NYC Toy Fair 2008 - Covering DIY!HOW TO - Build the arms of assistance.
MADE in Japan - Part I.
MADE in Japan - Part II.
MADE in Japan - Part III.
Make store - Blinky bug kit - Blink!
Make store - Loud Objects Noise Toy Kit
Makers - MAKE Flickr pool contest. Win cool stuff!
Makers - Join the MAKE Facebook page - Meet other makers.
MAKE on Twitter - Tweet! Tweet!
What you're reading in MAKE - Data!
Add MAKE to your RSS reader - Real simple.
Why advertise on MAKE?
Read what folks are saying about us!
Click here to advertise on MAKE!
Phillip Torrone
Senior Editor
Tel: 707-827-7311
Gareth Branwyn
Robot Maker
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Researcher
Natalie Zee Drieu
Senior Editor
CRAFT
Becky Stern
Culture jammer
Collin Cunningham
Sound Maker
Marc de Vinck
CNC Maker
Current Podcast
AHAB High Altitude Ballooning - Best of Weekend Projects
mp4|mov|hd|3gp|3g2|itunes This week on Best of Weekend Projects, we look back at part two of the AHAB (High Altitude Balloon Adventure). In this epic Bre & Co. travel to Eastern Washington to launch a GPS and camera enabled balloon...
More...
