Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited
An expansion of Sol LeWitt’s “Incomplete Open Cubes”
Art, code, writing, graphic design, UI/UX design
An open cube has 12 edges. How many variations are possible on an open cube with one or more edges missing? This was the animating question of Variations on Incomplete Open Cubes, a 1974 work by the acclaimed conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, which completely fascinated me when I discovered it. LeWitt found 122 variations, but as I studied them, I realized his definition of an incomplete open cube was more strict than my own, and I set out to expand upon the work. My version, Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited, found 4,094 variations. So began my journey into combinatorial algorithmic art, which eventually gave rise to Plus Equals.
