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Wonderful tilings all over the place at LaGuardia airport!
October 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Wonderful tilings all over the place at LaGuardia airport!
Getting back to this WIP to prepare for Bridges Galway deadline! Game of Life “pulsar” oscillator with concentric rings for simultaneous time step visualization
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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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
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
October 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🎉🧶🇫🇷
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
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
Meet the new plan, better than the old plan
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Meet the new plan, better than the old plan
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 :)
October 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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 :)
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
October 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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
Blocking squares for the www.grannylifecrochet.com project. Ready to receive more squares!
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Blocking squares for the www.grannylifecrochet.com project. Ready to receive more squares!
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 🧶
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life @geek @crochet 🧶
September 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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 🧶
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life @geek @crochet 🧶
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
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
September 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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
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
Looking good so far! ❤️🧶
September 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Looking good so far! ❤️🧶
Ok I think this is going to work! It feels good to have it starting to come together
September 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Ok I think this is going to work! It feels good to have it starting to come together
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
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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
Thinking about this type of join for the www.grannylifecrochet.com project, what do people think? This is just an extra round of 2hdc clusters with join-as-you-go. #grannylife #crochet 🧶
September 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thinking about this type of join for the www.grannylifecrochet.com project, what do people think? This is just an extra round of 2hdc clusters with join-as-you-go. #grannylife #crochet 🧶
Here are some of the beautiful squares that people completed during the week ❤️🧶
August 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Here are some of the beautiful squares that people completed during the week ❤️🧶
Thanks to everyone at the Illustrating Mathematics week at ICERM who made Granny Life squares this week! Almost 20 now completed!!
Get the free pattern and motif generator at www.grannylifecrochet.com
Get the free pattern and motif generator at www.grannylifecrochet.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Thanks to everyone at the Illustrating Mathematics week at ICERM who made Granny Life squares this week! Almost 20 now completed!!
Get the free pattern and motif generator at www.grannylifecrochet.com
Get the free pattern and motif generator at www.grannylifecrochet.com
Granny Life Progress Report! Out of 100 squares needed, 6 are completed and 54 more are claimed and in progress!
Still 40 squares left to claim if you would like to join the cellular automata community crochet math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
#geek #mathart #grannylife #crochet 🧶
Still 40 squares left to claim if you would like to join the cellular automata community crochet math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
#geek #mathart #grannylife #crochet 🧶
August 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Granny Life Progress Report! Out of 100 squares needed, 6 are completed and 54 more are claimed and in progress!
Still 40 squares left to claim if you would like to join the cellular automata community crochet math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
#geek #mathart #grannylife #crochet 🧶
Still 40 squares left to claim if you would like to join the cellular automata community crochet math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
#geek #mathart #grannylife #crochet 🧶
Over 30 motifs are claimed or completed so far:
August 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Over 30 motifs are claimed or completed so far:
Yes! This is "Rule 6" of a modified 2D totalistic cellular automata spaced and rotated for granny square stitches. You can play with other cellular automata rules to make motifs using our app at mathgrrl.com/granny-life
July 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Yes! This is "Rule 6" of a modified 2D totalistic cellular automata spaced and rotated for granny square stitches. You can play with other cellular automata rules to make motifs using our app at mathgrrl.com/granny-life
Wrote some code to check when Rule 6 starts repeating; luckily it takes a while, to Generation 1407 -- which then resets all the way back to Generation 1 in the next step! #grannylifecrochet
www.grannylifecrochet.com
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
www.grannylifecrochet.com
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
July 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wrote some code to check when Rule 6 starts repeating; luckily it takes a while, to Generation 1407 -- which then resets all the way back to Generation 1 in the next step! #grannylifecrochet
www.grannylifecrochet.com
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
www.grannylifecrochet.com
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
Three squares now complete, and I hear a fourth is completed and on its way to me already! Please share with your crochet/geek friends; it would be great to have more people sign up 🧶
www.grannylifecrochet.com/home
www.grannylifecrochet.com/home
July 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Three squares now complete, and I hear a fourth is completed and on its way to me already! Please share with your crochet/geek friends; it would be great to have more people sign up 🧶
www.grannylifecrochet.com/home
www.grannylifecrochet.com/home
Also: The Granny Life app now has a "Paris" button -- you can press this button to generate and choose from hundreds of motifs that satisfy the requirements of the project :)
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
July 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Also: The Granny Life app now has a "Paris" button -- you can press this button to generate and choose from hundreds of motifs that satisfy the requirements of the project :)
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life
CALLING ALL CROCHET GEEKS AND GRANNIES
Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
* We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit
Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
* We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit
July 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
CALLING ALL CROCHET GEEKS AND GRANNIES
Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
* We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit
Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com
* We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit
…and when the square is done it should be just shy of 6” across. Done!
July 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
…and when the square is done it should be just shy of 6” across. Done!
Crocheting while on the train from NYC to Virginia, so now there are more rounds…
After 8 rounds the square should be a bit under 4”. The pattern and tutorial videos on the website have tips about how to keep everything really square as you go.
After 8 rounds the square should be a bit under 4”. The pattern and tutorial videos on the website have tips about how to keep everything really square as you go.
July 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Crocheting while on the train from NYC to Virginia, so now there are more rounds…
After 8 rounds the square should be a bit under 4”. The pattern and tutorial videos on the website have tips about how to keep everything really square as you go.
After 8 rounds the square should be a bit under 4”. The pattern and tutorial videos on the website have tips about how to keep everything really square as you go.