Hideki Tsuiki

"Does it look square?---Fractal University Kyoto"

Polyurethane foam pieces covered with printed papers and connected by wires, 55 cm X 30 cm X 50 cm, 2005.

This sculpture has the shape of the 64-pieces approximation of the Sierpinski tetrahedron, and two square pictures extended with the rate 1:√3 are cut into 64 pieces and pasted on two faces of the tetrahedrons. We can view one picture from an edge, and the other one from the opposite side. The tetrahedrons are made of polyurethane foam, which are connected by wires at their vertexes.

"Hexagonal Bipyramid Fractal with a SUDOKU coloring"

Paper pieces connected by wires, 24 cm X 24 cm X 24 cm, 2006.




This sculpture has the shape of the 2nd level approximation of the hexagonal bipyramid fractal. It consists of 81 hexagonal bipyramid pieces and has the square shape in 6 directions (or 12 directions if opposite directions are counted twice). In each of these directions, each bipyramid piece has the square shape and we have 9x9 small squares. This is nothing but the "SUDOKU" grid. In this sculpture, 9 colors are assigned to the 81 hexagonal bipyramids so that each column, row, and 9-block have all the nine colors when it is looked at in each of the 6 directions.

"Cubic model of the Hexagonal Bipyramid Fractal"

Paper pieces with a wire, 15cm X 15cm X 15cm, 2006.



This sculpture also has the shape of the 2nd level approximation of the hexagonal bipyramid fractal. It consists of 81 cubic pieces and it has the square projection in 3 directions. It is made of six A4-size papers and supported by one wire in the center. It is assembled without paste or cellophane adhesive tape, and, it can be disassembled to flat paper pieces.

"Tessellation in the Cube"

Acrylic resin and paper, 8.5 cm X 8.5 cm X 8.5 cm, 2007.



It is simply a cube which contains two regular triangular sheets with triangular-tessellating drawings on both sides. The cube is made of acrylic resin blocks. When it is viewed from the six faces, the two triangular pictures are connected and affine transformed to form square pictures. Drawings by Yumiko Ihara.

"Tessellation in the Rhombohedron"

Wires and paper, 30 cm X 10 cm X 10 cm, 2007.



The above cubic object can be affine transformed to a rhombohedron. Since projection is preserved by affine transformations, this object also has six directions in which the two pictures are connected. It has some advantages to the cubic one. First, the connected image is a rhombus, which is close to the original rhombus of two regular triangles. Second, one can easily rotate this object to see the three images. Drawings by Yumiko Ihara.