Cumulative Gasket Pictures

Exercise Solutions

2. (iii) Depending on where in the pixels its corners lie, an equilateral triangle with base length 4 pixels may or may not have enclose empty pixels.
But certainly, an equilateral triangle with base length 2 pixels encloses no empty pixels.
Supposing P1 lies in the largest removed triangle, in part (ii) we have seen that P2 lies in one of the three triangles of base length 512/2 = 256.
Continuing, we find
P3 lies in a triangle of base length 128
P4 lies in a triangle of base length 64
P5 lies in a triangle of base length 32
P6 lies in a triangle of base length 16
P7 lies in a triangle of base length 8
P8 lies in a triangle of base length 4
Consequently, P9, P10, ... lie in triangles consisting only of pixels occupied by points of the gasket.
That is, on the computer monitor P9, P10, ... are indistinguishable from points of the gasket.

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