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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Day 276 - Petal conformation of 6_2

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Today is my favorite from the 3D-Printed Conformations of Knots through 7 Crossings  series that my Math 297 students developed last semest...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Day 275 - Mosaic conformation of 6_1

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Today's knot print is a mosaic projection of 6_1:  Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com/make:80243 Settings: Printed o...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Day 274 - Customizable Sock Bones

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Sometimes I think I got into this 3D printing thing just so I would have the opportunity to say things like "customizable sock bones...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Day 273 - Lissajous conformation of 5_2

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Today's knot is 5_2, the  three-twist knot , in a Lissajous conformation. The cool thing about this model is that from each side, the kn...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Day 272 - Lattice conformation of 5_1

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The cinquefoil knot  5_1 is one of two 5-crossing knots. The conformation we chose for this knot is a <LINK>lattice conformation<LI...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Day 271 - Stretchy bracelets

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It's Saturday and we are resting. Kids keep asking me for stretchy bracelets so today I made some from owens' Smooth and ridged str...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Day 270 - Friday Fail: Measure-twice-print-once edition, with Poker chip racks

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Today I wanted to design and print a rack for poker chips, and I wanted it to hold three stacks of 20 poker chips . If you sew, or knit, or ...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Day 269 - Minimal stick conformation of 4_1

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The figure-eight knot 4_1 is the only four-crossing knot, and it is usually drawn like the white knot on the left in the figure below. It i...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Day 268 - Tritangentless conformation of 3_1

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The trefoil knot 3_1 is the only three-crossing knot, which means that every other knot that can be drawn as a projection in the plane with ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Day 267 - Crazy conformation of 0_1

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Today we'll start going through the knot conformations in the series we introduced yesterday. Before we begin, let's go over some of...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Day 266 - 3D Printed Conformations of Knots

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The final project for this semester's  MATH 297 - Knot Theory Research and 3D Printing  course was to research and print a set of intere...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Day 265 - Cairo and prismatic pentagons

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Today we fix our fail from Friday ( Day 263 ), and print Cairo pentagons and prismatic pentagons  from data kindly provided by Frank Morgan...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Day 264: Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film

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To finish the furniture series we have one final print: some of the pieces that we couldn't fit into our apartment and that will be trav...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Day 263: Friday Fail: Off-by-one edition

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Being off by one is probably the simplest, most common coding mistake you can make, but it got me this week while I was trying to make tesse...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Day 262 - Customizable Furniture Minis

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Today our Customizable Furniture Minis set is finally done and posted to Thingiverse! I guess it's time to actually start packing now....
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