Collapsing Towers

According to Wikipedia, Kapla was invented in 1987 by Tom van der Bruggen. The name is an abbreviated form of the Dutch phrase "kabouter plankjes," which means "Gnome Planks."

But, of course, part of the thrill of the construction of a toy tower is watching it collapse. This past Spring, builders set a new World Record, successfully building an 82 foot tall tower using 100,000 Kapla blocks. That is quite an engineering feat. Still, a healthy portion of my attraction to this event was to see the tower come back down!

Here is a great video about the rise and fall of the new world record tower from professional Domino Artist, Lily Hevesh.

Something about human nature draws us to observe when destruction occurs. I wonder why that is. Maybe our attraction is related to the suddeness of the collapse? Perhaps it is a confirmation that gravity still swaddles us in its comforting arms?

I wonder if it is possible to take a video of the collapse of this tower and use AI to create a cinematic movie of the collapse of some 1000-meter-tall, dark fortress in a dragon-filled fantasy landscape. May that be a challenge to you. Let me know of your results!

Lily Hevesh has two YouTube channels: Hevesh5 and H5 Domino Community.

The tower collapse in this video was designed and organized by KaplaBen who has a YouTube channel as well: KaplaBen.