Menger Sponge, level 1½ (Penultimate unit)

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Folding instructions: Penultimate Unit
Related posts: Fading colors — degradation of paper over time
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Paper: copy paper (note block)
Type: modular fractal (implies: abstract modular, abstract, fractal, geometric, mathematical object, modular, multi-sheet)
Author: Michał Kosmulski
Units used: Penultimate Unit, by: Robert Neale
Unit count: 144
Colors: multi-colored
In albums: Modular ③ – many units

Model photographed over 16 years later, with faded colors
Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Thanks to the modules’ shape and the holes created in the spaces between them, this model looks almost like a level 2 Menger sponge even though it is actually only level 1. Compare with a version from StEM modules where the effect is even more pronounced.

The last picture was taken in 2021 while others were taken in 2004, and it clearly shows how the colors on cheap note block paper have faded over the years.

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