Talk:2891: Log Cabin

"The odd part about it is the bottom right corner, which appears to be infinitely recursive copies.."

The whole right side is the left side, shrunk and recursed. Each iteration rotated 90 degrees. The 'shrink' is about 1.616 by my squint, a lot like a "Golden Ratio" LOGarithmic spiral, as NickM says. PRR (talk) 19:49, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

This is a LOGarithmic spiral 172.70.210.103 19:52, 7 February 2024 (UTC)NickM

It is precisely the golden ratio, assuming the left side is a square Terdragontra (talk) 22:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Assuming a standard 36" wide front door, then the next "front" door would be 22.27 inches, then 13.78 inches, then 8.53 inches, at which point I doubt the inspector could squeeze through it, though I guess they could still take a peek inside the next recursion. 172.68.34.58 20:57, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Infinite bedrooms, infinite baths, close to schools and shopping. 172.69.247.48 21:00, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Government: Your property tax comes up to infinite dollars. --172.71.26.160 21:45, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

In some jurisdictions bedrooms need to have at least one externally facing window. Under this rule there are infinite rooms with beds, but only 8 bedrooms. Erin Anne (talk) 17:07, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Interesting comparison with the archetypal "labyrinth". It's actually a fractal version that only avoids being unicursal-with-no-dead-ends due to the off-living-room private spaces being quite trivial offshoots. Which arguably makes it fairly classical in nature. 172.70.90.114 21:18, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Should there be a mention that due to the limitations of the image format, it only actually achieves eight iterations? Which makes sense given that construction materials also have limits, and is still enough that the inspectors might be a bit confused if they don't pay close enough attention. 172.69.60.216 23:21, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Write it how you want, I just wanted to avoid calling a room with no bath (but a shower) as a "bathroom", especially when I was mentioning a 'bathroom' with an actual bath in it so soon after. Not that there's a completely unambiguous term for the room with the toilet/lavatory/whatever in it. (For reference, for me it's "the toilet", despite that also being the porceline item itself, and even that is derived from a hairdressing cloth, through a string of euphemisms. But knew that wouldn't be accepted by the wider readership.) 172.70.85.26 01:49, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

In the USA, any room with a toilet and sink is typically called a "bathroom" whether or not there is a literal bath within. 172.70.131.3 09:33, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Don't think it's particularly a US/UK thing - it's pretty commonly called a 'bathroom' in the UK too. I think the point of the editor above was the potential for confusion between the two 'bathrooms', and how to avoid it.172.69.43.243 09:44, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Using a language that allows to say "Sh*thouse" in a nice way (praised be the diminutive!) helps in such cases...Tier666 (talk) 10:15, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

There is a truly astounding range of terms, in English alone, (and I can think of several not included there, even discounting the rather localised overly-vulgar or overly-polite ones). 172.70.90.221 11:38, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Are there any non-Euclidean geometries in which you could fit this house without having to shrink the rooms or the people? 172.68.3.44 16:42, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

One way to build this would be with robotics that alter the structure as the visitor moves, like a holodeck. This could give the perception of the visitor shrinking forever, and the robotics wouldn’t let them leave until they rewalked their entry path. Another way would be to just make the rooms get too tiny to enter and hide the missing ones around a corner. 162.158.166.6 16:58, 8 February 2024 (UTC)