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Home > Simon Beck's Snow Patterns
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"Sierpinski Triangle," by Simon Beck
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Pattern made in snow with snowshoes.
This work is a variation on a Sierpinski Triangle. The S Triangle is a simple iterative process. Start with the largest triangle, find the midpoints of each edge, draw another triangle linking the midpoints, resulting in 4 triangles, then leave the middle triangle alone and repeat the process on the 3 other triangles. --- Simon Beck (http://www.facebook.com/snowart8848)
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