Of course, it's not the sort of chaos these folks are talking about.

Scientists crochet chaos

Dr Osinga explained: "Imagine a leaf floating in a turbulent river and consider how it passes either to the left or to the right around a rock somewhere downstream. Those special leaves that end up clinging to the rock must have followed a very unique path in the water. Each stitch in the crochet pattern represents a single point [a leaf] that ends up at the rock."

To be honest, I don't get it. But, it sounds cool, almost like poetry. And, when they put it all together, it is beautiful, don't you agree?



If you'd like to make your own copy, they link you to the pattern. It's 29 pages long and includes the calculations they used to generate the stitches. So, I probably won't be getting to it any time soon, even though it's awfully cool. If you do, will you let me know? I'd love to see it!