I am participating albeit in a stunted, undone manner. My piece will never rest with others, not will it give testament to the loss of a wonder of the world. No, I am on the sidelines again.

I often join clubs, make resolutions and plan only to be foiled. And I knew when my co-worker came up with this project,I'd flounder. I am just learning and trying to fit in crocheting with the rest of my "projects" and dramas.

My life is generally in knots, comparable to a ball of string after my three-year-old gets to it, so perhaps that's what's tripping me up.I cannot imagine crocheting flawlessly when I trip through life rather than traipse.




The Institute For Figuring is crocheting a coral reef: a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world.



Making Hyperbolic Crochet with Margaret Wertheim 7/14/2007





It's geometry! It's knitting. It's—hyperbolic crochet! For a century, mathematicians wondered how to represent a hyperbolic plane, described as a “surface in which the space curves away from itself at every point.” Sea anemones, ruffled lettuce leaves, and cancer cells exemplify hyperbolic shapes, where surface area is maximized and volume is minimized. Beginning with a simple crochet chain, learn how to create a geometric shape with a constant negative curvature just by adding stitches!Margaret Wertheim is a science writer, artist, and founder of The Institute for Figuring (IFF) located in Los Angeles. IFF is devoted to the public understanding of the poetic and esthetic dimensions of science, mathematics, and the technical arts.





http://events.exploratorium.edu/ramgen/make/make_magazine-070714.rm

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