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You have created an unstoppable, infinitely-expanding monster. No matter how many triangles you’ve already drawn, you will always be able to add more triangles within triangles. Somewhere around your 100th triangle it dawns on you that this will never, ever end. We also learn about other unusual geometric solid 3D shapes and where we find them in everyday life: stellated octahedron, dodecahedron, waisted cylinder. You keep drawing point-down triangles in the point-up triangles: But hold up, now there are even MORE point-up triangles to draw new triangles inside.
