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Re:Gabriel's Horn by dubin on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @02:53PM (#9728002)
Also check out the Menger sponge, which has infinite surface area and zero volume: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge
Re:Gabriel's Horn by wz1000 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @03:04PM (#9728075)
Re:Gabriel's Horn by mturmon on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @03:42PM (#9728261)
You can do the first few levels with business cards:

http://theiff.org/oexhibits/menger02.html

As you go to higher levels, that "infinite surface area" thing starts to become difficult to manage. ;-)

Re:Gabriel's Horn by darkmighty on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @03:33PM (#9728221)
Or equivalently any object with a fractal dimension between 2 and 3.
Re:Gabriel's Horn by relicscattergun on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @08:07PM (#9729406)
I think Sierpinski's triangle may also be of interest here, which, contrastly, approaches zero surface area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle
Re:Gabriel's Horn by gohrt on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:36AM (#9730335)
not constrast; it's analogous, in lower dimension.

Sponge has infinite area and 0 volume. Sierpinski's triangle has infinite perimiter and 0 area.