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Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

Knitting, crocheting, and…geometry?

by Cyndi on March 28th, 2007

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“I had to try it,” Hinke Osinga said when her partner challenged her to come up with a 3D way to visualize the complex Lorenz manifold that they were working on. The 2D models were just not satisfying. Science News reports, “Eighty-five hours and 25,511 crochet stitches later, Osinga had a Lorenz manifold almost a meter tall and about 25 centimeters in diameter, which now hangs in the pair’s house as a decoration.”

Read more about this and other fascinating uses of crochet and knitting skills!

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