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  1. 27 pieces.

    I made it by from boromean rings at each corner, and then added the middle pieces. It still kind of works the same way, if you remove any one colour the other two are disconnected.

    #geometry #mathart #mathsart #knots #3D #art

  2. 27 pieces.

    I made it by from boromean rings at each corner, and then added the middle pieces. It still kind of works the same way, if you remove any one colour the other two are disconnected.

    #geometry #mathart #mathsart #knots #3D #art

  3. I have the day off today (trying to use up vacation before the new fiscal year starts), and am spending part of the day learning how to tie #knots. I don't think I'm ever going to have to secure a boat to a dock, but I do sometimes tie things up in my garden, and I've often thought there are probably better ways to do things than repeated overhand knots.

    And I work in IT. Learning hand skills from time to time seems useful to keep myself from floating away in a puff of cybernetic abstraction.

  4. I'm just thinking about knots and how they are so very, very clever and very clever ways to hold something or link something and all you need is a length of rope or string or something.

    But at the same time, I've absolutely no interest in looking up about knots and learning their many varieties and many uses.

    #knots

  5. I'm just thinking about knots and how they are so very, very clever and very clever ways to hold something or link something and all you need is a length of rope or string or something.

    But at the same time, I've absolutely no interest in looking up about knots and learning their many varieties and many uses.

    #knots

  6. When I was looking for a different knot puzzle (andrewt.net/puzzles/celtix/ by @andrewt), I found this one (metalmastery.itch.io/celted) where you swap tiles to make a knot.

    I like both of them, maybe you will too

    #puzzle #knots #indiegames

  7. When I was looking for a different knot puzzle (andrewt.net/puzzles/celtix/ by @andrewt), I found this one (metalmastery.itch.io/celted) where you swap tiles to make a knot.

    I like both of them, maybe you will too

    #puzzle #knots #indiegames

  8. TIL that Frank Vigor Morley (1899–1980) published a paper in 1924 showing how to knot two strips of paper into a regular hexagon and one strip into a regular heptagon (and generalised into a regular polygon of any odd number of sides). origamiheaven.com/historyanote

    He was the son of Frank Morley (1860–1937), known for Morley’s triangle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley%2, amongst other things.

    #mathematics #geometry #history #knot #knots #origami #polygon #craft

  9. TIL that Frank Vigor Morley (1899–1980) published a paper in 1924 showing how to knot two strips of paper into a regular hexagon and one strip into a regular heptagon (and generalised into a regular polygon of any odd number of sides). origamiheaven.com/historyanote

    He was the son of Frank Morley (1860–1937), known for Morley’s triangle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley%2, amongst other things.

    #mathematics #geometry #history #knot #knots #origami #polygon #craft

  10. The six-year-old got a knife. Carbon steel with a rounded tip, wood handle. The sheath isn't great though, no way to hang the knife on your pants. So I tied some paracord around the handle so you can use a carabiner to attach the knife to pants. The ending could be done better next time. #paracord #knots

  11. Here's the video for those who want it. The spilled marlinspike hitch method of bowline tying is the very first thing he does.

    #knots

    youtube.com/watch?v=izHynu6wOF8

  12. Here's the video for those who want it. The spilled marlinspike hitch method of bowline tying is the very first thing he does.

    #knots

    youtube.com/watch?v=izHynu6wOF8

  13. Just felt like an XKCD character when I assumed my partner would be just as excited as myself at a video demonstrating a marlinspike hitch spilling into a bowline.

    #knots #xkcd

    xkcd.com/2501/

  14. Just felt like an XKCD character when I assumed my partner would be just as excited as myself at a video demonstrating a marlinspike hitch spilling into a bowline.

    #knots #xkcd

    xkcd.com/2501/

  15. My online Moby Dick book club's reading for the week starts with Chapter 47, "The Mat Maker", which opens with Queequeg and Ishmael working on sword mats. Since on the nerd Venn diagram I sit at the intersection of "in an online Moby Dick book club" *and* "a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers"", I decided to tie an example of a sword mat (which is the flat part of this assembly; the ring at the end is technically a simple ringbolt hitch.)

    1/3

    #photography #knots #knotwork #igkt

  16. My online Moby Dick book club's reading for the week starts with Chapter 47, "The Mat Maker", which opens with Queequeg and Ishmael working on sword mats. Since on the nerd Venn diagram I sit at the intersection of "in an online Moby Dick book club" *and* "a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers"", I decided to tie an example of a sword mat (which is the flat part of this assembly; the ring at the end is technically a simple ringbolt hitch.)

    1/3

    #photography #knots #knotwork #igkt

  17. 🪢 Nouvel entrelacs. En ce solstice je découvre les dessins entrelacés, entre branches et phylactères, de @alexfreikhadavali
    entrelacs.art/solstice-234-ale

    #InterlaceArt #knotwork #knots

  18. 🪢 Nouvel entrelacs. En ce solstice je découvre les dessins entrelacés, entre branches et phylactères, de @alexfreikhadavali
    entrelacs.art/solstice-234-ale

    #InterlaceArt #knotwork #knots

  19. "Researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, figured out how to precisely control a knot’s geometry and friction so that they could ‘program’ it to open when tugged on with a given force.

    This allows a surgeon — or a robot — stitching up a wound to pull a suture closed with just the right amount of force, simply by tugging the free end of the knotted thread and stopping when the knot unfurls."

    nature.com/articles/d41586-025

    #Surgery #Knots #Physics