Comments on: Hooking Up Manifolds http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/ Thu, 23 May 2013 18:50:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: IrrationalPoint http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-132874 IrrationalPoint Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:00:16 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-132874 This is well cool! I was just thinking a couple of months ago that crocheting a Klein hat would be a good thing to do when I am too tired to work, but I got all confuzzled as to how to go about it. I see now that there are people who understand how to do these things, so perhaps I will go back to the project.

–IP

]]> By: Categorically Not! - Doing Darwin Differently at Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-132835 Categorically Not! - Doing Darwin Differently at Asymptotia Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:23:19 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-132835 [...] (and even video) of previous events. (Image above right is discussed in an earlier post here. The last paragraph of the description below made me think of [...]

]]> By: Math on a tree « Qulog 2.0 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-24614 Math on a tree « Qulog 2.0 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:46:21 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-24614 [...] Of course, than I sort of forgot about it, and the film had to be developed (nope, don’t have a digital camera….), but thanks to Clifford I remembered. He likes crocheting too! [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-24424 Clifford Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:39:41 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-24424 Aaaah… doilies. Used to make those a lot when I was very young. Happy memories.

-cvj

]]> By: Harv http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-24422 Harv Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:06:48 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-24422 Hi Clifford (sorry for the lateness, I was off at the AAS meeting)!

It took me a few hours to do the small manifold. And well, I crochet a lot in talks around the department, so they didn’t think me any more crazy than normal. Thankfully, there’s a few knitters who do too, so that’s good.

And I do know how to starch things (I’ve just started making snowflakes and doilies and such), but the manifold was out of regular yarn with small hook, so it does stand up pretty well. :)

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-23795 Clifford Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:28:13 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-23795 Russell Crowe? I see. I’m going to have to start Fightin’ Round the World. :-D

-cvj

]]> By: pedant http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-23786 pedant Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:42:21 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-23786 The science/music nexus is widely recognised and celebrated (in this blog and elsewhere). It’s good to see the newly-cool knitting getting a look in as well; CVJ and Russell Crowe as celebrity tricoteurs – how hip is that. I’m a crochet man myself – my daughters taught me, in return for a bit of Mathematica(l) input to some of their design projects.

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-23475 Clifford Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:51:42 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-23475 Harv

Thanks! That’s great! How long did it take? Did your colleagues think you were mad?

An idea: Do you know how to starch things? The old-fashioned laundry technique… That way, you could shape it a bit more easily and display it more dramatically. Just a thought.

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Harv http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-23461 Harv Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:57:45 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-23461 A fellow crocheter (and scientist) here too. :)

I saw those manifolds about a year or so ago and then in one of the Crocheting magazines, they had a pattern for a small hyperbolic manifold which I had to crochet. I figured it was an appropriate thing to work on during department talks and such. ;)

Small picture:
http://thorn.as.arizona.edu/~kak/Pictures/misc/Crocheting/DSCN4424-sm.JPG

Large picture:
http://thorn.as.arizona.edu/~kak/Pictures/misc/Crocheting/DSCN4424.JPG

I keep thinking it would make a great hair scrunchy or cuff for a jacket or something…

I’ve also been wanting to make a Mobious (sp?) shawl I have a pattern for. :)

And I’ve found a pattern for a crocheted Klein bottle too (which I haven’t gotten around to, but it’s on my list):
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/crispin.roche/klein.txt

]]> By: Carl Brannen http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-23213 Carl Brannen Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:18:30 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-23213 My sister is a knitter with tenure, and says that it provides useful stuff to do during various scholarly things. My inclination is more towards sewing, most recently wool suits, though I’ve not done any for years.

There is also another hobby that is a bit like crocheting but more manly, and that’s the manufacture of chainmail, a hobby that if performed repeatedly will give you a grip strength like no other. (Smaller link diameters will be more work hardened, and the product will be stronger, and will also provide more exercise.)

]]> By: Plato http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/comment-page-1/#comment-23122 Plato Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:21:52 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/01/01/hooking-up-manifolds/#comment-23122 Layman scratching head. Interpretive look at the “art of science.”

A “n-body problem” quantum dynamically perceived, or cosmologically, a “three body problem?”

A “strange” abstract world to be travelling. :)

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