Tag 'beadwork'

I think the colour makes it much easier to see what's going on, though seeing is really no substitute for playing with it in your own hands, so I recommend you make your own.

I put up a new webpage on hyperbolic beading so that you can make your own. So far the page only contains diagrams for the above model, but I hope in the future to try some other tilings and patterns.

I consider this a rough test for future mathematical beadwork, hopefully with nicer beads, colour patterns, and artistry. I was inspired to pursue mathematical beadwork by some of the very beautiful models I saw at BRIDGES this year, notably the works by Laura Shea and Bih-Yaw Jin. There are also some connections between computational balloon twisting and computational beadwork (if you wanted to minimize the length of the path the string takes).