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Comments on Puzzle #5039: WC #24: A Rug With a LOT of Holes
By K Chouinard (codenumerator)

peek at solution       solve puzzle
  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: line logic only  

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#1: Petra Lassen (stjarna) on Feb 19, 2009 [SPOILER]

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#2: eliza (bet72) on Feb 19, 2009
Amazing!!!!!!!
#3: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 19, 2009
Cool. Just like Sierpinski's Triangle!

Reminds me of fractals. Here is a flash actionscript that is only 4k and really pretty:
http://www.zenbullets.com/automatons/Tree.swf

And since we are all into pixels, here is a pixel flash that is less than 1k. (I'll bet Jan knows how to make cool stuff like this.)
http://krazydad.com/bestiary/bestiary_random_pixels.html


#4: Jota (jota) on Feb 19, 2009
Thanks for your entry!
#5: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 19, 2009
If you like things like this, take a look at this Mandelbrot Fractal video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAJE35wX1nQ
#6: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 19, 2009
Here's a webpbn puzzle (naturgirl's first one) that looks like a Sierpinski Triangle:
http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=2025

#7: K Chouinard (codenumerator) on Feb 19, 2009
Nice links, Teresa! That Mandelbrot movie reminds me that as you zoom in on the full-blown Sierpinski carpet, it looks exactly the same as the zoomed-out view.
#8: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 19, 2009
Watching all the movies inspired me to do a pattern. At least it is in B/W so it won't make anyone go cross eyed.

http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=5094
#9: zandperl (zandperl) on Feb 19, 2009 [SPOILER]
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#10: K Chouinard (codenumerator) on Feb 20, 2009
Excellent!!
#11: Naomi Millar (sailormewtwo) on Feb 20, 2009 [SPOILER]
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#12: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Feb 20, 2009
Math math, blah blah blah... LOL
#13: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Feb 22, 2009
Echoing Adam.
#14: Byrdie (byrdie) on Jul 28, 2009 [HINT]
On the one hand there's something interesting about pattern solving where, when a solve is done in one place, one can move over to the repeating iterations and solve them. On the other hand, it gets boring after a bit and one is no longer logically solving the puzzle.

The math in the description, in the long run, is more interesting than the puzzle. But on the whole it was worth the effort.
#15: Gator (Gator) on Apr 28, 2010 [SPOILER]
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#16: Diana W (aeris) on Dec 30, 2010 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#17: Susan Nagy (susannagy54) on Sep 13, 2016
I think that infinite processes take forever. Also, the area of the rug only approaches zero, but I don't believe it actually becomes zero.

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