Menger Sponge - Formal Definition

Formal Definition

Formally, a Menger sponge can be defined as follows:

where M0 is the unit cube and

M_{n+1} := \left\{\begin{matrix} (x,y,z)\in\mathbb{R}^3: & \begin{matrix}\exists i,j,k\in\{0,1,2\}: (3x-i,3y-j,3z-k)\in M_n \\ \mbox{and at most one of }i,j,k\mbox{ is equal to 1}\end{matrix} \end{matrix}\right\}.

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