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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I ran over 150,000 simulated games of Pac-Man to find successful runs that took exactly one minute. Theyre not perfect, so technically this day clock takes 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59.375 seconds.

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Pac-Maze Clock

The hour is drawn in maze walls. A certified arcade run completes each minute.

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Preparations are well underway for the Bridges #Mathart conference starting in Galway, Ireland, tomorrow. The #MathArt exhibition is being set up, and we'll have a set of wonderful talks and activities. As every year, I'll keep you posted! www.bridgesmathart.org/b2026/

A couple of transparent cubes hanging from a pine tree in front of a university building.

A collection of mostly origami-based mathematical art arranged on a table.

A shot of a large hall with several tables and stands on the wall. Mathematical art is placed all around and people are looking at it.

A large #MathArt work, composed of different crocheted pieces hanging in front, with some tables with MathArt in the back.

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 03/08/2026

*fingers in ears* lalala it’s June

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 18/07/2026

I knowwwww so many of these do. Maybe a good source of shawl patterns?

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 29/06/2026

Bell House in Brooklyn at AEOUD (one of many people appearing) on july 12

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 28/06/2026

Working on slides for my next talk...

Tom Baker as Dr. Who, wearing his signature scarf... cellular automaton version!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 27/05/2026

Hey this is surprising

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

I watched that five times and still not sure lol. Excited for more news tomorrow

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

I think that lower down underneath that back and forth there is a cylinder spinning very fast bringing the yarn through a circle of hooks that could be knitting a spiral tube. I can’t figure out the back and forth, maybe it is tension or the diagonal thing somehow?

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

Given how fast a circular knitting machine spins, my new guess is that there is only one direction of knitting, in a spiral, and the diagonal strands are running through the knit work?

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

wow, great find! there are a bunch of YouTube videos of the RUIS machine you found, same machine makes a bunch of different nettings? it looks like it's a circular sock knitting machine at the business end www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIl_...

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RIUS COMATEX TC 300 TBEA VIDEO2 #moderniostechnologijos #modernios #rius #textileindustry

YouTube video by MODERNIOS TECHNOLOGIJOS

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

Maybe just two directions?

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

You’re right about crochet though, I wish I had a crochet machine!! I actually think we could make one but there is no financial reason to do so, and so nobody does. On the other hand I have no idea how!!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

The slip stitch version would be strands making the slip stitches and then separate strands weaving back and forth like shoelaces. The knit version would be that the loops are formed in the other direction with perpendicular strands. Can’t tell from the photo

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

Actually it’s difficult to tell from the photo but the new one might actually be knitting. I kind of want to try to replicate it in yarn. @ayliean.bsky.social if you are coming to Bridges please bring me one :)

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 21/05/2026

It looks like a completely different machine/technique — old one is some kind of twisted grid but the new one is clearly related to slip stitches/crochet. Maybe it’s easier to machine the new way?

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 17/04/2026

AutoScarf update: the app works, the crochet pattern works, we are ready to roll once we get the website together! If you love 2-color reversible crochet and custom cellular automata algorithms, sign up to hear more and join the project at forms.gle/G8rWQVccZ4MM... #crochet #geek #math #awesome 🧶

Crochet pattern and worked sample in red and white

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Robert (Bob) Bosch @baabbbaash.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Cover art for the May 2026 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Here's a link to the issue: www.ams.org/notices

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Robert (Bob) Bosch @baabbbaash.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I converted a text message into a knight's tour. To decode it, follow the knight's tour, starting in the top left corner. The knight will traverse a succession of 11x11 tours, and each of these 11x11 tours corresponds to a letter. The message is a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin.

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 02/03/2026

New project in the thinkin’ stage

Crochet sample and scrawled instructions

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 26/02/2026

Interesting coincidence: each of your two squares happens to be 6 over and 4 down, one on each side! I did not plan that but it is cool

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 26/02/2026

I believe yours is five across and five down on the night side of the work 💙

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 26/02/2026

I believe i see your motif #442 in second square from the left in the very bottom row of the night side!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 26/02/2026

sort of both - it is a two-sided artwork and each side is different squares. it's all attached together like a sandwich with supporting drapery fabric between, so that it can hang for weeks without sagging. it weighs almost 25 pounds!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 25/02/2026

The last stitch isn’t an exciting explosion, it is just a stitch. The project completes quietly ♥️💙 www.grannylifecrochet.com @crochet @mathart @done 🧶

Doing the last stitch on a large colorful crochet project

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 18/02/2026

The final artwork is coming together! One side is “night” and the other is “day”. grannylifecrochet.com 🌙☀️

Crocheted granny squares with a blue/night colorway

Crocheted granny squares with a red/day colorway

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 11/02/2026

Pulling up loops at the corners to attach the work to the backing fabric. Will weave in the long ends to stabilize the edges… www.grannylifecrochet.com #grannylife #mathart #geek #crochet 🧶

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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Geordi, Is there a way to enter our authorization codes by typing them instead of speaking aloud to the computer? Several crew members have complained that they need to memorize a new code after each use because coworkers overheard them. Worf

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This is cellular automata applied to a staggered grid, like in beaded peyote stitch. All of these images were created with the same algorithm, what I call “Vines on a Fence.” The only difference among them is how I started each patch. I give the recipe for Vines on a Fence on page 105 of my new book

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 08/02/2026

Crocheting at 180 mph 💨

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 08/02/2026

On the way to Paris on the Eurostar and finishing the second-to-last join row of the “blue side” of the Granny Life community artwork www.grannylifecrochet.com

Colorful granny squares being attached together while riding on the train

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 07/02/2026

Project global-to-local in full swing (about halfway done)

Drapery fabric with yarn attached at regular intervals in a grid

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 07/02/2026

The good news is that this changes the problem of alignment from a global problem to a local problem. The grid is set, and I only need to worry about one dot at a time. So future-Laura will be happy, at least

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 07/02/2026

121 dots, attach yarn on both sides of each dot. This yarn will secure the corners of the squares to the backing, then weave along the joined edges to secure those too. This work is BORING and tedious. I have completed the yarn setup for one dot; 120 to go 😭