Simon Beck also created this piece of sand art last weekend at
Brean Sands, Somerset, UK. I also noticed Simon's comment about
the creation of this sand work which give us an insight to the
way he creates his works - 'To set this out, first I drew an
ordinary Sierpinski triangle (not very well, not helped by the
wet sand and the requirement to avoid unwanted lines across the
final drawing) then I went to the middle of each triangle that
was to be drawn as a pyramid, and worked out where to displace
the top of the pyramid, which was a function of the distance and
direction from the point on top of the cliffs I had chosen to be
the viewing point. No problems with the direction, all one had
to do was to walk backwards away from the viewing point, the
distance was more problematic, as I hadn't bothered to make a
clinometer and map things out accurately. I increased the
displacement for pyramids that were further from the viewing
point, of course. The result looked spot on when standing on the
viewing point; looking at the photos at home, I wonder whether
it would have worked better to displace all the apexes of the
pyramids by the same amount in terms of direction and distance
(obviously the distance is proportional to the "height" of the
pyramid.' - I am not sure who took this photo but that is Simon
on the cliff edge above his sand art work.
More of
Simon's art work can be found on his link:
https://www.facebook.com/snowart8848