Potemkin
12-17-2004, 09:22 PM
Crochet your own Lorenz manifold. Directions here: http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/preprints/2004r03.pdf
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1103201460519B216
mathematician crochets Lorenz theory of chaotic systems
A crochet stitch in time results in 'chaos'
December 16 2004 at 03:05PM
London - Urged by her professor to "do something useful", a British mathematician has made a crochet model of chaos, the BBC reported on Thursday.
Hinke Osinga of the engineering mathematics department at Bristol University in the west of England needed 25 511 stitches to represent the Lorenz equations that describe chaotic systems.
Osinga and her professor, Bernd Krauskopf, were offering a bottle of champagne to anyone who cared to follow the pattern published in the journal Mathematics Intelligencer, the public broadcaster said.
Osinga was making hexagonal lace motifs during a Christmas break two years ago, when Krauskopf asked: "Why don't you crochet something useful?"
The two spent 85 hours - whether during their working hours or spare time was not reported - to create their representation of chaos, propped up by steel wire.
"Imagine a leaf floating in a turbulent river and consider how it passes either to the left or to the right around a rock somewhere downstream," Osinga said.
"Each stitch in the crochet pattern represents a single point - a leaf - that ends up at the rock," she added.
The result is currently finding use as a Christmas decoration, suggesting it will be tossed out with the rest of the tattered festive trappings on Twelfth Night - January 6. - Sapa-dpa
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1103201460519B216
mathematician crochets Lorenz theory of chaotic systems
A crochet stitch in time results in 'chaos'
December 16 2004 at 03:05PM
London - Urged by her professor to "do something useful", a British mathematician has made a crochet model of chaos, the BBC reported on Thursday.
Hinke Osinga of the engineering mathematics department at Bristol University in the west of England needed 25 511 stitches to represent the Lorenz equations that describe chaotic systems.
Osinga and her professor, Bernd Krauskopf, were offering a bottle of champagne to anyone who cared to follow the pattern published in the journal Mathematics Intelligencer, the public broadcaster said.
Osinga was making hexagonal lace motifs during a Christmas break two years ago, when Krauskopf asked: "Why don't you crochet something useful?"
The two spent 85 hours - whether during their working hours or spare time was not reported - to create their representation of chaos, propped up by steel wire.
"Imagine a leaf floating in a turbulent river and consider how it passes either to the left or to the right around a rock somewhere downstream," Osinga said.
"Each stitch in the crochet pattern represents a single point - a leaf - that ends up at the rock," she added.
The result is currently finding use as a Christmas decoration, suggesting it will be tossed out with the rest of the tattered festive trappings on Twelfth Night - January 6. - Sapa-dpa