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Colour Combinations

A good many times I need colour combinations for all sorts of things and it is diffcult for me to select colours so, that I like them.
kris’s color stripes is a great help because she takes photos and ‘extracts’ a colour palette from them.
If you’re not interested in the photos to the colour combinations you can go directly to kris’s other blog where you find ‘only’ the colour combinations and where you can let search all colour combinations for one colour (e.g. orange).

Links:
kris’s color stripes (color-stripes.blogspot.com) – photos and their colour combinations

kris’s color stripes (kris-color-dots.blogspot.com) – ‘only’ the colour combinations
all colour combinations with orange

Aerial Image Greetings

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Today there’s no tutorial, but I liked the aerial image greetings so much that I wanted to share.

Click on the picture to enlarge and to see better what this is about.

But the picture is only the result, the whole message is revealed letter by letter.

Have fun sending love to good friends!

Links:
geoGreeting – How geeks show they care
unikatissima at geoGreeting

TED Talk: Nature, Crochet and Geometry

$unikatissima Math and Crochet TED Talk$

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Recently I presented the beaded hyperbolic planes, now I found a TED Talk to this that inspired me to eventually crochet a hyperbolic plane.

I wanted to crochet this in fact for a long time, ever since I got this beautiful pin I still adore.
Thank you again!
$unikatissima Math and Crochet Pin$ $unikatissima Math and Crochet Pin$

Links:
TED Talk: Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry

At The Institute For Figuring:
Crocheted Hyperbolic Models and Coral Reef Taxonomy Gallery at The Institute For Figuring
   – a wonderful gallery
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
   – ditto ;-)
Beaded Hyperbolics
   – still ditto ;-)
Crochet instruction for a hyperbolic plane (Interweave Knits article Taking Crochet to a Higher Plane)

At unikatissima: Beaded Hyperbolic Planes

Online Pattern Generator (Cellular Automaton)

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I wrote another online pattern generator that you can use in a manner of speaking for ‘nearly everything’ ;-), but this time not for maze patterns, but for patterns that are made with a so called cellular automaton.

To tell you the truth, I haven’t as yet understood fully what a cellular automaton is ;-)

Everything began when I saw this knitted Cellular Automata Tea Cozy.
I found the pattern quite funny, so I made a little research and when I found the many different patterns that such a cellular automaton can generate I was dead set on writing an online pattern generator for such patterns.

Ta-DAA! And here it is.

A suggestion: If you don’t like a (random) pattern, simply click the ‘random’ or the ‘random random’ button again, some of the patterns differ considerably from each other!
And if you don’t know exactly what to do with the diagrams simply read again my entry ‘What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?’ ;-)

I wish you a lot of fun with it!

By the way: On the photo you see my first printed patterns, yarn in two colours, some beads, crochet and knitting needles.
I simply can’t settle for a project to begin ;-))

Links:
unikatissima’s Pattern Generator (Cellular Automaton)
unikatissima’s Maze Pattern Generator

Cellular Automata Tea Cozy
via: k2g2 – Mathematical Craft Projects

Elementary Cellular Automaton

Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?

Beading Your Own Images

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Your work becomes really personal if you can use your own design.
The Palette Editor gives you the opportunity to upload your own picture and enter certain bead producers and not only to get a bead template back, but also to get the appropriate bead product numbers (or the similar).

unikatissima Kali tile Because I’m using mostly no name beads I can’t ‘savour’ it to the full, but the picture alone is already a great help.
For the picture at the top I simply used a tile that I had made with Kali.

Links:
PerlerPal Palette Editor

Here at unikatissima: Kali

Maze Pattern Generator

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Yesterday I showed what can be done with filet crochet/cross stitch embroidery charts.
Today I want to present my maze pattern generator.

Some time ago I played a little around with mosaic (slip-stitch) knitting and found that mazes are as if made for that.
You can see this e.g. on the photo where I show a mosaic knitted wrist warmer.

Because I didn’t felt like always making the mazes myself, I looked in internet whether I can’t find anything and – ta-DAA! – I found the Maze Maker for which John Lauro kindly even published the algorithm (Thanks, John!).
There are more maze generators, but I found those of the Maze Maker most beautiful of all.

Therefore I sat down and wrote a program that generates mazes of a given size and where I can even specify the path lengths.
I let output an overview (little picture) and the pattern (template), because I find the overviews are easier to compare.

Of course you can (as ‘mentioned’ yesterday ;-)) work filet crochet but also mosaic knitted wrist warmers like the one on the photo on top, …

…embroidered cards (here I always pricked a little hole in the center of the little black squares which I embroidered with running stitches worked in both directions) …

…and bead work (here beaded square stitch).
By the way this is a good example where the result looks different from the pattern: the beads are simply not square.

Links:
unikatissima’s Maze Pattern Generator

Maze Maker
Labyrinth Algorithmus

Instruction for running stitch

Google search result for ‘maze generator’

Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
Mosaic (Slip-stitch) Knitting
Beaded Square Stitch Heart
crochet medaillon

Candle Lit Photo Stands

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When there comes the time again where you can sit on your patio and dine with friends (ok, ok, it will still take some time, but a woman can dream ;-)), the candle lit photo stands can make a romantic atmosphere.
In the instruction they print their own photos on vellum and glue them on, I preferred my favourite gift wrap.
Besides you should also be able to use the topmost layer of the used paper napkins (possibly glued on vellum), then everything matches even better.

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Photo Centerpiece

Sharpen Photos Digitally

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Somehow I never had the heart to sharpen photos digitally. This tutorial on how to sharpen photos digitally ‘cured’ me ;-)
It’s quite a difference between both parts of the picture, isn’t it?

Links:
At photojojo: Unsharp Mask: How Do You Actually Use That Thing?

Printable Photo Frames

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I found a Japanese website (translated) where you can download photo frames to be printed and fold by yourself. Some look really nice, I find.

Links:
Following links translated with Google Translator:
Paper Museum – Overview categories of photo frames
Overview Wedding Photo Frames (The button with the text (A4/PDF/2 photos) next to it downloads the PDF file with the photo frame)
Instruction on how to fold the photo frames

Following links original (Japanese):
Paper Museum – Overview categories of photo frames (Japanese)
Overview Wedding Photo Frames (Japanese)
Instruction on how to fold the photo frames (Japanese)

Kolam

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I discovered kolams (English Wikipedia entry for ‘Kolam’)!
They are beautiful patterns and I do like to play around with knots and the like ;-)

It all begun when I found a tutorial on how to design kolams.
Then I first checked what kolams are and via the Englisch Wikipedia entry for ‘Kolam’ I found a ~~Random Kolam Generator~~ Random Kolam Generator and an Interactive Kolam Maker. I wasn’t able to use the latter in an appropriate way, double click on the circles always brought different results.
I suppose that I only have to work on it a little bit more.
But I think that I will stick to the previously mentioned tutorial on how to design kolams, especially after I have seen the kolam images at Google and flickr.
And I guess that I won’t need the receipe for kolam rice flour colour (it is in German, but it is mainly one table spoon rice flour mixed with a pinch of colouring from plants or minerals and then painted with moist fingers), because I mostly use graphic programs (that’s because I can’t draw a straight line ;-)).