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Designer uses algorithms to create unique knit scarves
If you fall within the intersection of a Venn diagram, wherein circle A is labeled "knitting enthusiast" and circle B is "math geek," then you've got to see this Kickstarter campaign. It's called KnitYak, and its creator promises 100 percent unique black-and-white scarves for each backer. How? By using elementary cellular automaton algorithms, which follow several different "rules" to determine the value (specifically, the color) of each square cell, or in this case, each knit stitch. That's oversimplifying it, of course, but you can read more about it and look at the patterns different rules generate on Wolfram Mathworld. As you can see from the website, each rule produces a distinct pattern, though the designer can make a lot of unique scarves using the same rule just by starting from different rows.
