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Hexagonal Cross Stitch

104 points by ink_13 8y ago

swimfar 8y ago
I like these kinds of scientific/mathematic explorations that relate to craft. The article on mad weave also sounds interesting (unfortunately it's not open access). The site seems to be overloaded, but there's a Google cache available: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oCEyfysa0XMJ:isohedral.ca/hexagonal-cross-stitch/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oCEyfys...
- adjagu 8y ago
  Google Cache returned a 404 for me, but I was able to locate this on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003050/http://isohedral.ca/hexagonal-cross-stitch/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003050/http://isohedral....
isohedral 8y ago
Hi Hackers! Thanks for your interest. The site is back up now, but unpredictably so if traffic spikes again. In the meantime, here's a stable link to a saved PDF of the page: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hcs.pdf https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hcs.pdf.
zokier 8y ago
One nice aspect of the Shepard sampler is how she uses the same base pattern for all the tiles, which makes the differences between the symmetries very clear even to layman such as me.
- isohedral 8y ago
  Yeah, in the end I decided that I didn't have the time or experience to design a single unified theme for the whole piece. To some extent I also don't really have enough resolution in my grid -- some symmetry groups might not have ended up with very many translations of the motif.
pontifier 8y ago
The closeup picture of the open hexagonal weave fabric looks eerily similar to a design I cut into the flywheel of a (rejected) battlebot I built. I intended each straight section to act like a tension element, and a tri-axial pattern with large open hexagonal holes seemed to me to be the most efficient design. https://youtu.be/5mnNPMfzap0 https://youtu.be/5mnNPMfzap0
metaphor 8y ago
It's strange to think that with all the research that has gone into 2D weave patterns, I have yet to see any real application of it come out of the PCB dielectric industry.

104 points by ink_13 8y ago

I like these kinds of scientific/mathematic explorations that relate to craft. The article on mad weave also sounds interesting (unfortunately it's not open access). The site seems to be overloaded, but there's a Google cache available: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oCEyfysa0XMJ:isohedral.ca/hexagonal-cross-stitch/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oCEyfys...

adjagu 8y ago
Google Cache returned a 404 for me, but I was able to locate this on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003050/http://isohedral.ca/hexagonal-cross-stitch/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003050/http://isohedral....

isohedral 8y ago

Hi Hackers! Thanks for your interest. The site is back up now, but unpredictably so if traffic spikes again. In the meantime, here's a stable link to a saved PDF of the page: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hcs.pdf https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hcs.pdf.

zokier 8y ago

One nice aspect of the Shepard sampler is how she uses the same base pattern for all the tiles, which makes the differences between the symmetries very clear even to layman such as me.

isohedral 8y ago
Yeah, in the end I decided that I didn't have the time or experience to design a single unified theme for the whole piece. To some extent I also don't really have enough resolution in my grid -- some symmetry groups might not have ended up with very many translations of the motif.

pontifier 8y ago

The closeup picture of the open hexagonal weave fabric looks eerily similar to a design I cut into the flywheel of a (rejected) battlebot I built. I intended each straight section to act like a tension element, and a tri-axial pattern with large open hexagonal holes seemed to me to be the most efficient design. https://youtu.be/5mnNPMfzap0 https://youtu.be/5mnNPMfzap0

metaphor 8y ago

It's strange to think that with all the research that has gone into 2D weave patterns, I have yet to see any real application of it come out of the PCB dielectric industry.