A quick timeline bubble chart for this week's #TidyTuesday data on Papal Encyclicals showing the average number is generally decreasing

Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2026/2026-06-23

#DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/371994182

#SlimeMould #Myxomycetes #Macro #Photography #Nature

Paulo Freire and I have been searching for orthographic projections that can be built with Zometool, with help from AI and from vZome. We found these beautiful models of projections of the 6D hypercube. Check the interactive 3D models here:

https://www.nan.ma/vzome-sharing/2026/06/09/five-zomeable-6-cube-projections.html

Each model has a special property: it uses Zometool struts of a single color, and all struts in the model have the same length. In these models, some struts may pass through each other. In the vZome software, we ignore that physical constraint. In a real build, one could add balls at the crossings, but that would break the equal-length property.

Coincidentally, Zometool has four strut colors, and all four appear here.

The models are related to the mathematical concept of tight frames.

Paulo built the red, yellow, and one of the green models in real life.

These diagrams show how to weave a puffy triangle beaded bead with peyote stitch and seed beads. If you want to make a longer beaded bead, using cellular automata on the sides, I recommend starting and ending that on the rounds of all blue beads.

Nothing brings me joy quite like a new strand of matching beaded beads. After drawing the diagrams for the flat triangle beaded beads, I stitched a whole strand. This strand features 9 different beaded beads in graduated sizes and a rainbow of colors. The largest bead in the center has a design created with cellular automata as described in my new book “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.” I used the algorithm called Dot Arrays with a cycle of period three. The beads are light and hollow, and they make a pleasing clink when they knock together.

Find my book “Beading with Algorithms” available directly from the publisher, World Scientific. https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/14357#t=aboutBook

Find this strand of beads here: https://gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/4508611218

#cellularautomata #beading #beadweaving #algorithms

Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Geometric Beadwork by Suzanne Golden

from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest

https://pin.it/7xPqhB69U

#SundayBeadyEyeCandy #BeadyEyeCandy #BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads