I wrestled with how to use these ideas to make a visually interesting design for a long time. This is my 'Virtual' needlepoint of Fornax.

This project started as an attempt to use three or more levels of recursion with pentominoes in a visually interesting design. The blocks that make up this picture are all pentomino shapes.

There are four different sizes from very small, to very large. I began with a single set of blocks, enlarged it, then disolved many of the pentomino blocks into a bunch of smaller pentomino blocks. Many of the smaller blocks were disolved again into the many tiny pentominoes that can just be seen in this image.

I have documented the development of my stitched version of this piece in my article: Anatomy of a Project - Fornax.

The image of the 'real' piece is in the Pentominoes Gallery section.

See my articles about Pentomino puzzles and Virtual needlepoint.