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idea for a quilt that's "uniquely you," as they say. The concept is similar to the triangle designs based on Douat's Treatise, as popularized (among quilters) in Hooworth & Rolfe's Spectacular Scraps"
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NannMore quilts + science
Dec 08, 2008
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I love these! The possible variations are mind-boggling!
Alice in NJ
That's a lotsa half square triangles... Whew!
Now that is wild!
Fascinating. I've needed 'names' for the 4 rotations (?) of HSTs when I'm talking to myself about how they must go together. I wonder if I put flash cards of the ACGT all over the house if I could get those to stick in my brain. Polly
"Michelle C" Now that is wild!
I use a Mac-based music processor for the ABC textual notation called BarFly. It was developed by a computational molecular biologist, Phil Taylor. He had the same kind of idea: turn DNA sequences into musical notes. I have a stretch of rat DNA which he helped sequence, and then turned into a tune. It's a very long and boring jig.
A nice touch is that ABC lets you put the name of the composer into the tune header. This one has
C:God
==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts
My son just started working for a company called Human Genome Services.......maybe he needs a quilt for his office????
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