Why do I tend to draw infinite tessilations?

[Galacticruler]

(there was no Psychology prefix)

I am wondering why it is that when I get bored, I draw a square, and then start dividing as far as I can without messing up. (Square>Two triangles>four>eight>nearly ad ∞um)

No clue when or why I started to do this, just kind of noticed a few months ago...

[EuSouONumero345]

maybe cause it's an alternative to ksp?

[Galacticruler]

maybe cause it's an alternative to ksp?

this started long before I found KSP.

[dharak1]

I do this too. I do it with triangles and squares and sometimes octagons. I divide the square by drawing lines corner to corner then cut those four triangles in half then keep cutting triangles. on triangles I keep cutting it in half and octagons I just draw diagonal corner to corner to get triangles.

[Nuke]

congradulations, you like fractals.

[Galacticruler]

its not that I like them though, as I'm indifferent, its more that I;m confused as to why they even happen...like, what could have caused me to start these?

[DaveofDefeat]

It appears that aliens are trying to telepathically communicate with you, my suggestion is to wear a tinfoil hat on your head wherever you go. Make sure the hate reaches down to at least your ears to block their telepathic signal.

[Luis]

Doodling is pretty common. If you give most people a pad of paper and a pen and put them in a boring meeting or a long phone call, they will fill the margin and eventually the page with tightly packed, baroque, shapes and designs. This might be because only the language processing parts of the brain in the left hemisphere and your creative/visual parts on the right get bored. Exactly why you go for recursively subdivided squares, rather than anything else is probably more a matter of habit than anything else. I tend to draw scrolling curves and wave shapes. Other people draw flowers, or stick men. The more you draw one kind of thing, the more comfortable you are with it and the more likely you are to draw it next time because that pathway has been reinforced in your brain.

Which is all just a long way of saying that it's quite normal.

[KvickFlygarn87]

I draw tornado-ish things like this

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[Dominatus]

It is quite normal to doodle; as for why your doodles tend to be squares divided into ever smaller triangles... Well, my theory is that your thinking leans towards solid fact as opposed to other ways of thinking. This logical approach creates a pattern while doodling, one which you default to because it's what you always doodle. That's probably so incorrect it's not even funny. I'm by no means an expert in this, however. Feel free to correct me.