From: mathwft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
Date: 2 Aug 1999 01:44:24 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Sierpinski's gasket?

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While I'm at it, here's another one.
It's Sierpinski's Sponge, the 3-D case of the rectilinear gasket series.
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