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Home : What to do with 66,000 business cards

What to do with 66,000 business cards

August 8, 2007 by jayfrankwilson
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Why, build a level three Menger Sponge, of course! What the heck is a Menger Sponge? Glad you asked. It’s a three-dimensional fractcal cube of sorts, first described by Austrian mathematician Karl Menger in 1926. When, some seventy years later, Dr. Jeannine Mosely found herself confronted with a gargantuan pile of business cards, rendered useless after the company she worked for changed addresses, she knew what she had to do with them: hand-make a real, live Menger Sponge — creating an actual object from something that had previously been merely a mathematical abstraction — a (sorta nerdy) feat of Guinness Book proportions.

How To Instructions:
1. Begin with a cube.
2. Divide every face of the cube into 9 squares. This will sub-divide the cube into 27 smaller cubes, like a Rubik’s Cube
3. Remove the cube at the middle of every face, and remove the cube in the center, leaving 20 cubes (second image). This is a Level 1 Menger sponge.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 for each of the remaining smaller cubes.

66,048 business cards, 8,000 business card cubes (Menger subunits) and 150 pounds of cube later, it was finished. Figuring the whole project required about 600 hours to build, she recruited volunteers from around the country to build parts of it and then ship them to her. Construction photos after the jump!

What To Do With 66,000 Business Cards - Menger 1

What To Do With 66,000 Business Cards - Menger2 2

[Via Mental Floss]


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