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xkcd #2891: Log Cabin (xkcd.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm sure the building inspectors will approve my design once they finally manage to escape.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Fibonacci Frathouse

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Golden Grotto

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No... that's a different kind of house.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I should have said the golden patio

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Base case when the smallest piece of wood can no longer be distinguished as a piece of furniture

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The "No nesting" rule should apparently apply not only to model rail but also to log cabins.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

So the quantized plank length?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Mandelbrot furniture set

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Big oof

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This would make a really cool art installation where you start at the top of a multistory building and keep walking through and turning right before going downstairs to the next room where you walk through and turn right before going downstairs to the next room... Etc etc.

If all the furniture got progressively smaller as the walls and ceilings progressively closed in, it would feel just like this picture.

Or you could leave everything the same size and it would still make for a surreal experience going down, through, right, down, through, right, etc until popping out into the street - at that last set of stairs you'd be certain the door in front of you would lead straight into the identical living room from every other floor. Seeing the street instead would be a real mindfuck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you exclude the progressively smaller furniture I think I've been to some IKEAs that felt like this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's been well-documented already

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I had a hope for that link and I was not disappointed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this music video by bonobo https://youtu.be/ebzEEEdjHj0?si=AkBjTe3O_wBPQCcH

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

That was wild thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Your post gave me the same vibes as House of Leaves did

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hah log cabin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

∫ 1/cabin

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I should reread House of Leaves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

why not read House of Leaves: Ireland Edition then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I tried a digital copy but got lost less than a quarter of the way through, and I had no idea how much a physical copy cost, especially at a time when income was a huge issue for me. I'll probably give it another shot soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If you can, a physical copy will be much better. It’s one of the few books that doesn’t translate as week to e-reader/digital for [redacted] reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

the basic version "normal book price" but if you have the cash and inclination look for a colo(u)r copy with all the bells and whistles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Chaos ensues...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Is this how a TARDIS works?