How to Crochet a Coral Reef - and Why
Sarah Derouin
Scientific American
"The crocheted corals display hyperbolic geometry, a type of geometry that is neither planar nor spherical; Picture hyperbolic geometry as a sort of saddle shape with curves and dips. Nature loves hyperbolic geometry and you can see examples of it in the sea (sea slugs and corals) or in your salad bowl (curly kale leaves). As it turns out, crochet is a perfect medium for creating rippled, ruffled edges seen in corals."
This Los Angeles Grocery Store Has 31000 Items - and You Can't Eat Any of Them
Carlye Wisel
Smithsonian
"The potato chips, Butterfinger bars and ramen packets inside Sparrow Mart may look real, but they’re all handmade from felt. The combination art exhibit and supermarket, is stocked with an array of 31,000 produce, liquor, frozen and fresh food items, all of which are for sale. The entirety of Sparrow Mart’s functional equipment - grocery case, deep freezers, even the ATM - are covered in felt too; add branded shopping carts and grocery baskets to the mix and it’s the full experience."
See the Adorable New Grocery Store in Rockefeller Center Where Everything is Art
Sarah Cascone
Artnet News
"Delicatessen on 6th specializes in fresh produce, with organic kale, ripe avocados, and tidy bunches of spring onions displayed in rustic wooden crates. The deli counter with its cold cuts and sliced cheese is out, replaced by a butcher station featuring freshly ground beef and premium cuts of meat. All in felt. You’ll also find all manner of soft-sculpture seafood, including ruby red lobsters, shiny sardines, and oysters that you can actually shuck, removing the smiling bivalves from the shells. For the first time, Sparrow has created a cheese counter, a bakery, and a patisserie, recreating every aspect of a fancy food emporium."
Meet the Mathekniticians - and Their Amazing Woolly Maths Creations
Alex Bellos
Guardian
"Not only are the images in the afghans mathematical, but the way they are made also involves mathematical thinking. 'We enjoy the challenge of seeing an idea then working out how it can be made into an afghan in a way that would be easy enough for anyone else to recreate. It is like trying to solve a puzzle and refining it to give the best possible solution.' "
'Knitting is Coding' and Yarn is Programmable in this Physics Lab
Siobhan Roberts
New York Times
"The investigation is informed by the mathematical tradition of knot theory. A knot is a tangled circle - a circle embedded with crossings that cannot be untangled. (A circle with no crossings is an 'unknot.') The knitted stitch is a whole series of slipknots, one after the other. Rows and columns of slipknots form a lattice pattern so regular that it is analogous to crystal structure and crystalline materials."
"Knitted fabric is a metamaterial. A length of yarn is all but inelastic, but when configured in slipknots - in patterns of knits and purls - varying degrees of elasticity emerge. Just based on these two stitches, these two fundamental units, we can make a whole series of fabrics, and each of these fabrics has remarkably different elastic properties."
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