only slightly OT: crochet

Mar 08, 2007 2 Replies

This is a cool idea and a neat website/exhibit. A coral reef in crochet:



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I read about these hyperbolic models in (IIRC) Discovery. The woman mathematician who crocheted them used them to demonstrate mathematical formulae which are otherwise difficult to visualize. They really are neat.

MargW

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