Drunken Pumpkin

Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. Due to problems with distraction, the cat’s sense of hunger had to be removed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to over 10 million British pounds.

The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C.. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and declared to be a total loss.

~ from Wikipedia

The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty.

I’m still not sure what a Lorenz Manifold is. But I know what it looks like when you turn it into a crochet pattern.

I like the fact that some Math students took what seems to be an incredibly abstract mathematical formula and turned it into art. I wonder if, in time, people will come to look at this in the same light that as the impressionists?

And there we have another oddball use of Math. Well, kind of. Monet was not working from complicated equations, but rather more of a gut feeling. By using just a few colors and his ideas of how eyesight actually worked, Monet was able to create a beautiful array of colors and subtle lighting effects.

And with the crocheted Lorenz Manifold we have a visual representation of how strange attractors work. (If that phrase sounds familiar, it pops up In Jurassic Park.) And it looks pretty snazzy, too. And that’s always a plus.