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Sierpinski Carpet-Triangle Subdividing an equilateral triangle into four equilateral triangles, removing the middle triangle, and recursing leads to the Sierpinski triangle. In three dimensions, a similar construction based on cubes produces the Sierpinski sponge a nd the Menger sponge. A variation of the Sierpinski carpet, called the Wallis sieve, starts in the same way, by subdividing the unit triangle into nine smaller triangle and removing the middle of them. At the next level of subdivision, it subdivides each of the triangle into 25 smaller triangle and removes the middle one, and it continues at the ith step by subdividing each triangle into (2i + 1)2 smaller triangle and removing the middle one.