Sculpting Mapping Cylinders: Seamless Crochet of Topological Surfaces
Proceedings of Bridges 2023: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 559–566
Workshop Papers
Abstract
In this workshop we will learn how to crochet topologically nontrivial surfaces by building appropriate ribbon graphs from foundation chains. This technique perfectly matches the concept of a mapping cylinder in algebraic topology. Examples include surfaces whose boundaries are torus knots/links and regular polylinks.