R. Sunder-Raj(1/7) Any Idea why I was doing this about 4 years ago?
The stains are from green permanent marker, not Vulcan blood 😁…unless, of course, that is how green markers are made 🤔😱.
(2/7) The next step seems a little less silly…who knows, it might make sense in the context of….well…something.
(3/7) This was one of my first steps down the convoluted (or should I say ‘meandering’) path of physically representing squiggles …at least the sort described here https://mathstodon.xyz/@HypercubicPeg/108315553189253657
R. Sunder-Raj (@[email protected])
Attached: 4 images (1/3) For those of you wondering what I have been talking about when mentioning using #polygonSquiggles and #wedgeSquiggles in my art, here is a bit of stuff that I wrote about how the idea developed. #mathart #mathsart
(6/7) As well as pleating a narrow ribbon, putting beads into it (1 on one side, 2 on the other side, 3 on the first side, 4 on the second, etc…), and then pulling it tight.
(7/7) New attempts at physical squiggles…now that I know a little tatting.
There are probably errors, but it is just a proof-of-concept thing at this point.
#polygonSquiggles #wedgeSquiggles #tatting #mathart #mathsart
(8/?) Here is another tatted physical representation of a squiggle.
I was trying to approximate the basic unit used in this picture https://mathstodon.xyz/@HypercubicPeg/109519987316245678
R. Sunder-Raj (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image More #polygonSquiggle stuff from a while ago. #mathart #mathsart
(9/?) Another try at a physical tatted squiggle. This one is only about an inch and a half in length.
I tried “dyeing” the thread with permanent marker to get two strands with the same characteristics other than colour.
(10/?) If I manage to finish this tatted squiggle pair and make 6 others to match it, they might actually fit together as shown in the second picture.
(11/?) I tried making a second squiggle pair, but this one has the end circles left open rather than working them as a loop of stitches.
A squiggle tatted with metallic thread.
Silly me! I just realized that if I want to tat something where one piece of yarn/cord/thread has to be significantly longer than the other (and I don’t feel like calculating exactly how long 😊), I can just cut the shorter one and use the fact that I can flip stitches to leave the cord on the roll uncut.
A tatted squiggle. You may be able to see that the centers of alternating circles should lie on straight lines.
Yet another physical squiggle. This one is crocheted around sequins using metallic thread.
#crochet #threadCrochet #wedgeSquiggles #mathart #mathsart
Yet another trial. This one has some #crochet at the center (little more than loops of chain stitches going into a jump ring) and #tatting around.
Mucking about some more with sequins, beads and metallic thread.
Another crocheted physical squiggle.
Yet another crocheted physical squiggle.
Okay, this is done very crudely, but If I were crazy enough to crochet enough squiggles of this type, I could put them together to look something like this.
Edit: Though it may be accomplished easily enough using mirrors instead.
This one was made out of beads and sequins with a needle and thread instead of using crochet.
Mirrored pair of physical #wedgeSquiggles.
I may have to be a bit careful if I want to avoid the directional tilt of the stitches.
This aligned pretty well with the pattern that I made…I wonder if I will have the patience to crochet 23 more copies and make a full ring of them.
It would look somewhat like this if I did.
A squiggle-based pattern crocheted on a somewhat different scale from what I had been doing.
I had forgotten how much of a pain it is to sew a lacy piece of crochet into a fabric that can fray….not using any fray-stopping liquid…yet.
I guess that a quarter of a century may be enough time to forget such things.
n-gons@HypercubicPeg That's truly a spectacular shape 😍