{"id":279,"date":"2021-03-31T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/?p=279"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:03:49","slug":"crochetcoral-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/2021\/03\/31\/crochetcoral-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Crochet+Coral= &#8230;Math?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-236\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/files\/2021\/03\/1mileHCircle-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/files\/2021\/03\/1mileHCircle-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/files\/2021\/03\/1mileHCircle-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/files\/2021\/03\/1mileHCircle.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick&#8217;s 1 mile coral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wait, so crochet plus corals equals\u2026 math? Yup! That\u2019s right, corals are actually one of nature\u2019s examples of a hyperbolic surface and crochet is a perfect way to model it. Not sure what any of that means? Not to worry, I wasn\u2019t either until I listened to Prof. Kari Calta\u2019s talk on hyperbolic geometry in the second week of our Community Coral Project presentations!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Calta teaches in the math department at Vassar as well as being the director of the Exploring Transfer program (an initiative which connects with students from community colleges who are interested in moving to four-year liberal arts institutions). She fell in love with hyperbolic geometry because it challenges many of the geometric ideas that we take for granted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hyperbolic geometry is elegant, surprising, counterintuitive, and it makes some pretty sweet art, as we\u2019ve seen with our crochet coral creation! Please enjoy this video that brings together math and art in a tangible and understandable way, and come by again tomorrow for more content \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-Maya<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Note: Again, the beginning of this video is slides but we get going at 1:05 \ud83d\ude09 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Webinar on Hyperbolic Geometry with Kari Calta\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xaBkeRNsCZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Featured image:\u00a0https:\/\/www.h-its.org\/projects\/comparing-hyperbolic-and-euclidean-geometry\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wait, so crochet plus corals equals\u2026 math? Yup! That\u2019s right, corals are actually one of nature\u2019s examples of a hyperbolic surface and crochet is a perfect way to model it. Not sure what any of that means? Not to worry, I wasn\u2019t either until I listened to Prof. Kari Calta\u2019s talk on hyperbolic geometry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7955,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188946,26316,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coral-community","category-stories","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/studentcatalysts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}