Visible thousand 3-peaker

This is an animation of exactly one thousand cubes, in a uniform stacking style. It starts out as a tetrahedron of edge 18, which contains 1140. So 140 must be removed to get to 1000. A parallelipiped of 2x7x10=140 is removed. The highest level is 16 up. The caldera leaves just one cube's thickness in the bottom at the deepest point.

I stacked the cubes in Blockcad, a nice "postcardware" lego-block program. Then I screen captured an .avi of turning it horizontally. Then I editted the video in Jasc Animation Shop, which was bundled with PSP7. Jasc has since been acquired by Corel.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• thousand
• cubes
• visible
• large
• number
• pyramid
• peak