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  hi i'm fbz and i designed these mandelbrot fractal sweaters https://knityak.com/collections/antenna-crown?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social they are pixel native where one pixel exactly equals one knit stitch. i'm pedantic and a math nerd and i'm exacting about my code created knits. these come with source code in python for this exact spot on the mandelbrot set with this specific dithering. #computationallyfabulous #fractal #blue #spiral #mandelbrot

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  the "halloween train" took me way too long to rebuild today. (it got smashed to bits two years ago and not all the pieces were together and i had to relearn how to program the silly lego powered up app). eventually it goes on the mantle. it is a hidden side lego train i bought at a garage sale years ago plus power plus train motor wheels plus a bunch more cars of minifigs in costumes.

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  it's a full moon tonight https://knityak.com/products/your-spot-on-the-moon #Moon #sweater #spaaaaaaace #spaceart #SpaceData #knitting

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  me in full nerd mom mode in these pics mac boot rom cardigan coded into knitwear by me https://knityak.com/collections/powermac-9700 the happy mac / sad macs are hard coded into the rom. in the third pic is binary, maybe a lookup table, that i outlined in purple. the inside of the knits/back of the blanket is knit in birds eye jacquard, a smooth reverse side with a cross hatch of the colors on the outside. this series of vintage mac boot rom knits comes with source code to reproduce your part...

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  two unrelated vulns in one week where 4 is used as a cryptographic secret. welp. https://www.securityweek.com/tls-flaws-found-in-goahead-web-server-used-in-hundreds-of-millions-of-devices/amp/

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  my skeleton key line of knitwear consists of one off sweaters and blankets. https://knityak.com/collections/skeleton-keys the key size, key wards, and key bits are software generated. they are scattered using SHA256 and a key phrase seed. no two are the same and once it sells, no one can ever have the same one because i keep a ledger. and no the generating seed is not just 4 #cryptography #sweater #SHA256 #oneoff #pixelart #knit #knitwear

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  shout out to the costume makers, costume modders, and costume repair folks making last minute saves i made myself a red pirate sash and some felt eye patches for my kids on my trusty singer featherweight

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  well we got our usual 600 or 700 trick or treaters. we went through five giant costco bags of candy. happy halloween! 🎃👻💀👻🎃

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  might do all over sierpinski snowflakes with no koch edge, not sure

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  koch snowflake edge vs all over rule 90 repeated on a hex grid #math #mathematics #mathart #sweaters #knit #pixelart #sierpinski #koch #festive

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  i think this other approximated hexagonal geometry could look better and bolder in knitting even though it is slightly stretched to fit on a pixel grid. and maybe key phrase generated like my https://knityak.com/collections/skeleton-keys line could be cool with little randomly generated snowflakes. i kind of like the idea of things that look classic like this but no two sweaters are the same. #codeart #algorithmicart #knitting

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  a different method of making sierpinski snowflakes with koch snowflake edges with the new geometry of trying to fit a hex grid on a square/rectangle grid #math #1dca #rule90 #mathart #koch #kochsnowflake #Sierpiński

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  rule 105 looks way cooler than rule 90 as a snowflake in my opinion.

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  it's snowflaky, it's fun, it's math! https://knityak.com/collections/snowflakes one of a kind math snowflake knit sweaters, once you get it, no one else gets the same one #kochsnowflake #1dca #rule105 #holidaymath #mathematics #math #knit #knitting #mathart

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  snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

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  what are we thinking on blanket colors? what's your favorite? is there a different color combo you would prefer?

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  Sierpinski Granny Squares, as aptly named by @lea . thank you lea! https://knityak.com/collections/rule-90-sierpinski-granny-squares These are Rule 90 in the one dimensional cellular automata, pixel native, knit into the sweater, knit on demand. Only you get your particular starting row. I have a ledger that only allows them to be made once. When you start Rule 90 with only one pixel turned on, it makes Sierpinski Triangles. These have more complex starting rows (but symmetrical ones, they loo...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@fbz/117478619017435667 my blankets have more entropy than some commercial certificate authorities. (each of these is individually generated, not just the colors change, each one is provably unique)

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  two of each color, completely one off snowflake knit blankets https://knityak.com/collections/snowflakes ❄️❄️❄️❄️ (like these emoji snowflakes except every snowflake is unique and generated and scattered with a keyphrase with SHA-256, if you want some randomness and more bits than some private keys at certain certificate authorities). math is hard. let's go shopping...for math. #math #sha256 #snowflake #blanket #holidaymath #computationallyfabulous #knit #knitting #codeart

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  mandelbrot fractal sweater sample just arrived. knit in four colors. bespoke dithering code for the color fades tuned by me. comes with its source code. https://knityak.com/collections/deorbiting-satellites

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  @mnl https://knityak.com/collections/moon/hoodie

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  my new hotness i made: Your Spot on the Moon https://knityak.com/products/your-spot-on-the-moon pick any spot on the moon! and get a four color greyscale topo map custom knit sweater, knit hoodie, or knit blanket in dithered pixel art #moon #spaaaaaaace #regolith #dither #pixelart #knit #apollo11 #topomap #SpaceData

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  nothing quite like a black cat to help you harvest another pumpkin to kick off the goth high holidays

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  (btw if you have never had the joy of running an online store in the usa, sheesh the sales tax stuff is even more complicated than 10 years ago.) i blame amazon for having to track state and local nexus stuff. ew. the overhead and tracking software is painful and pricey. me to the tracking software company i'm paying: "um that's expensive" them: "here join us for this two hour onboarding clicky gui fest for stuff that will be autofiled for you&quot...

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  another shot of me at mathematician's bench in krakow in one of my new mandelbrot fractal sweaters https://knityak.com/collections/mandelbrot Nikodym and Banach are Polish mathematicians caught in conversation as they were in 1916 when Steinhaus overheard them and posed a math problem that Banach solved two days later. Fun fact, Mandelbrot was also born in Poland though he was ethnically Lithuanian Jewish and considered himself French-American (I'm also French-American). math kn...

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  does everyone loathe metal zippers like i do? i have not designed a knit sweater with a metal zipper yet because i hate the feel. but is that just a me problem? also still considering spooling up some hoodies for those of you who requested them. these would be pullover machine knit hoodies, no drawstring on the hood. i personally want v neck classic pullover sweaters so doing those next too. i already have v neck cardigans as pictured here. this is a medium cardigan in a vintage quadra mac boo...

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  i have re-coded up some of the algorithms from The Algorithmic Beauty of Seashells as pixel native one-off knitwear. https://knityak.com/collections/seashell Each seashell pattern knit sweater is a one-off, once it sells no one else can have the exact same sweater with the same seed. I wasn't able to make this into a product last time around and I'm super excited to make one-off seashell pattern knits a reality. #math #reactiondiffusion #partialdifferentialequations #seashell #k...

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  I added real product shots to this Mandelbrot sweater listing https://knityak.com/products/antenna-crown-classic-fit-crewneck They are knit in double bed birds eye jacquard in four colors. I made custom dithering in my code for the edges of the fractal now in four colors. You get a two page type in the code pdf I made with each of these sweaters in the exact spot on the Mandelbrot set of the knit item in python. If I sell a bunch more sweaters I can pay to sample knit many more of the designs...

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  it looks like some of the first orders since i relaunched https://knityak.com have arrived with folks. so that is 16 to 20 calendar day lead times for individual orders in the usa with my new manufacturer. here is one of my vintage mac boot rom cardigans in navy with a custom dithered background fade in three shades of pink. this is an actual vintage mac boot rom from archive dot org converted to an image and coded by me to knit strip by strip. i think the numbers are scsi drive numbers and the...

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  this is the back of one of my new Mandelbrot knit sweaters https://knityak.com/collections/antenna-crown in shades of blue. these ship with the code in Python to generate your specific spot on the Mandelbrot fractal with these same four colors and dithering. these are made with a new on demand manufacturer and are pixel native from my code: one pixel equals one knit stitch. #math #knit #computationallyfabulous #fractal #mathart #algorithmicart