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Eiffel Tower of Cards

Monday, September 14th, 2009

This structure is the first that I designed myself and I have challenged myself with this one, as it should not be possible.

When stacking cards you really should go straight up. Higher levels need to be supported with something below it (preferably directly below). With the columns in the Colosseum, there was parts of the upper levels that did not have anything directly below it, but those upper levels were spread over a large area much of which did have columns directly below.

The difference with the tower I am building here is that after the first few levels the rest of the structure is all over the middle of nothing.

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The Colosseum

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

This was a longer build. And by that, I mean longer than a few hours. When I started building this one I was just playing around with how many cards I could fit on the table. After I had done a full level I modified the front and built a second level and added “bleachers”. Then I turned on the camera to document, what would become, the next few days of stacking.

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Like a house of cards…

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

A house of cards is the structure created when an individual takes playing cards from a deck (or decks) and leans them upright against each other.

These structures can have multiple floors.

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