Once I was reading in Wikipedia different mathematical articles and accidentally opened an article about Fractals and I liked the picture with 2D Pythagoras tree.
Then I wanted to see how it would look like in 3D and search returned me this:
As it is clearly seen, this one is 3D Model made in one of the 3D Editing software. Inspired by this picture I decided to build my own Pythagoras Tree from wooden coffee sticks.
So, I managed to make 3-level tree:
- First level – One big cube (12 sticks)
- Second Level – Four cubes which are 1.41 (square root of 2) times smaller (4*12=48 sticks)
- Third level – 16 small cubes (16*12=192 sticks)
I took my time and spent 5 minutes per day, this is why the whole process took around 6 months.
After this, I made 270 photos from different sides and on 3 level. With special software, I managed to make 3D Model out of these 270 pictures. This is the model:
Video with an explanation of the creation process of Pythagoras Tree and result: