An Embroidered (3,7) Hyperbolic Butterfly Pattern
Douglas Dunham and Lisa Shier

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 365–368
Short Papers

Abstract

We have used embroidery to render a butterfly pattern in the Poincaré disk model of hyperbolic geometry. It is one of a family of such patterns. We will describe the embroidery process and show a picture of the resulting fiber work.

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