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In December 2004, two mathematicians from Bristol University constructed a crochet model of the Lorenz attractor, the canonical ‘chaotic’ system. They have offered a bottle of champagne to anyone who can match their achievement by following the pattern they published.
The bottle remains unclaimed.
[via infosthetics]
And, while we’re on the subject, I’d like to mention my favorite mathematical artist, Bathsheba Grossman.
Update 10/16/2005: Looks like there’s at least one professor who does this sort of thing on a regular basis.
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October 13th, 2005 at 10:21 am
Followed that link. The Gyroid is fucking gorgeous:
October 13th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
By the way, infosthetics.com is itself one of the most gorgeously simplified sites I’ve seen of late. Check out how meta-information is separated from post content simply with repetitions and vertical alignment. The black line that continues down the entire page connects the blog title with the categories for each post. The content is offset to the left. Post titles are shifted further left.
“Form Follows Data” goes the tagline. I like.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:35 am
[...] to get a better feel for how they look and work. I mentioned this before. Also really awesome: this Lorentz attractor!. As a mathematician at heart, I was intrigued, for there were lots of really cool complex shapes [...]