Trying to lay out a Disappearing 9-Patch #quilt
Hallucinant ! As the French say.
I'm using a graphics program and my brain is still boggled. Such a simple function creates seemingly infinite repeating patterns. And if you add the possibility of both horizontal and vertical offsets to the offsets...
Our grandmamas may have been oppressed but it was not for lack of geometry and math skills, good lord. Anyone who could do this without a PC could run Ford or GM.
AlsoPaisleyCat
in reply to Tarnport • • •Always remember : ‘Computer’ was the word for a woman who did calculations.
There’s a reason that the patterns for jacquard looms were effectively the first computer programs.
Knitting and crochet patterns are essentially machine language code.
Quilting traditions incorporating geometric patterning and permutations mixed with optical effects is all of a piece of this. (Pun very much intended.)
#Quilting #Misogyny #MathIsWomensWork #Women #Math #Computing #ComputingHistory #Crafts #Knitting #Crochet