Randall Munroe: Log Cabin xkcd.com/2891 — Subium • Bluesky web client

Title text: "I'm sure the building inspectors will approve my design once they finally manage to escape." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/2891#Transcript

If

I feel like construction costs for this design would spiral.

Well yes but the costs would get less and less as the builders moved inward down the ever spiralling costs and their ever smaller bodies.

Zeno’s materials estimate.

Fixed floor area, but infinite wall paint needed

You assume it's not like a nautilus, getting larger all the time. Like rings on a tree.

Don't do that.

house of logs

I came to the comments expecting a HoL reference and was not disappointed

I blame Euler for this. Frankly, I blame Euler for soooooo many things.

Is this some sort of eulergy?

If you just randomly guess "Euler discovered this" for anything maths related theres a 50% chance that you're correct

This feels like someone tried to use the Fibonacci sequence to make a floorplan.

Sexually Suggestive

Labeled by Bluesky Moderation Service

The golden ratio floor plan.

Now imagine Goldilocks trying to find the right size bed there.

get out :P

...eventually

This is so clever, it hurts.

Welcome to my forever home

How small can you go

Who cosined these plans?

Naturally

I see what you did there

mine better

eeee that’s good

I prefer cabins made with natural logs.

But is it a ln Cabin?

OK, I'm boosting this to the knitting feed 🧤 🐑 🧣 where it will be Truly Appreciated by a world of Talented Knitters.

Now do Log Log Cabin 😀

O(N * log(N)) cabin

Is this a Mandelbrot log cabin?

Nice.

That's fib-tastic

Vacation house of leaves

I don't think the nautilus will be very comfortable.

Isn’t this the floor plan to IKEA stores????

Seems like it was designed by a naughty lass.

No doubt someone would fund the real thing as an art installation with a glass top with steps up to each half sized level.

Also a bbq joint and bar..NorCal

Genius

Mate, where's your alt text?

I appreciate the inclusivity of the increasingly small mice that live with me in this design

Genius, Randall. :)

Or a Fibonacci cabin, actually.

How many iterations until it’s the cross section of a human hair? And why am I thinking of model railways all of a sudden?

The Mouseover as Alt-text would be awesome!

the proportions are absolutely golden.

Post