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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 10h

Getting back to this WIP to prepare for Bridges Galway deadline! Game of Life “pulsar” oscillator with concentric rings for simultaneous time step visualization

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 1d

🎉🧶🇫🇷

The community project "Granny Life" is going to Paris!! The artwork was accepted for the exhibit "Création, entre arts et mathématiques" at Maison Poincaré in Paris. Woooo!!!

Join the project and your crochet can go to Paris too! www.grannylifecrochet.com

15 colorful granny squares with matching mathematical patterns, connected together as part of a community artwork

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 1d

Thank you, I am so excited!!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 7d

WHAT, I did not expect to be on this list. But I am, so thank you for this link!!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 8d

Meet the new plan, better than the old plan

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 8d

Oops, too much of this green color close together. That’s me working through a nice skein of Malabrigo Rios. Going to pull one or two out and save for later on the piece :)

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 8d

The bright orange finally has a partner (LONG knight’s move apart because so strong). I welcome suggestions for swapping/moving the unattached squares, at least until I have to take this off the table to protect it from the cats

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 8d

Next part of the layout for the www.grannysquarecrochet.com project. Trying to keep things balanced with local strategies: put similar colors a knight’s move apart rather than same row/column, keep similar patterns away from each other, try to bring down bright colors using neighboring colors

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 9d

The blocking boards are standard but I added some custom 3D printed waffle separators so I could stack the squares with gaps inbetween

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 10d

Blocking squares for the www.grannylifecrochet.com project. Ready to receive more squares!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 12d

Oooh do you have a link to share? I need this too!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 16d

Yesterday's Granny Life crochet-a-long inspired 2 new "pro tips" for making beautiful squares:

1. Twist the yarns just before the corner 2ch, to make it easier to catch carried yarn later.

2. It helps to make your hdc crochet stitches a little "tall".

www.grannylifecrochet.com/pixie-square... 🧶

Granny Life Community Build Project - Pixie Square Crochet Pattern

Pixie Square crochet pattern

www.grannylifecrochet.com

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 16d

haha well if it looks square then you are probably doing them right :)

(and if not then the fiddly part in the corners is catching a horizontal strand of yarn inside/between/under the corner stitches)

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 16d

Looks great! I’ll block it on my end once I have it. And I’ll let you know if we have another CAL, it was fun to see people and complain about the fiddly corners together

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 23d

Oooh this one looks amazing!!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 26d

Create crochet granny squares for a community math/art project! Our Granny Life motif-generating app can now export printable pattern pages ❤️

www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life @geek @crochet 🧶

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 27d

#5 (mustard and charcoal) has a great positive/negative space flip going on

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Sep 7

Progress Report!

Squares claimed and in progress: 86
Squares that have been crocheted: 30
Squares that have been received: 22
Squares attached to the artwork so far: 9

Join the community crochet cellular automaton project at
www.grannylifecrochet.com

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Sep 7

Yes that orange one is so tricky! It is near some things that soften its abruptness but I agree it still is bright. The whole piece is like a multi-scale sudoku with color and pattern rules that are emerging. I started making another bright one to put in later so I can balance the orange one out!

mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Sep 6

Looking good so far! ❤️🧶

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Sep 5

lol, I ruined 3D printing for my son :)

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Sep 5

The hard bit is that the assembly rule has to be local becasue I receive the squares a few at a time. In the end I think the math algorithm brings the “matchy-ness” of the patterns and the layout is about color and style

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Sep 5

Ok I think this is going to work! It feels good to have it starting to come together

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Sep 5

After trying a lot of local rules for symmetry and other things, in the end I think the best strategy is to make sure things that are close together don’t have colors or patterns that are (1) too similar or (2) too different (?). Thoughts on arrangements? www.grannylifecrochet.com

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