Acknowledgements

This site stands on other people's work. Here's who to thank, and what we took from each.

Sources

• Dharma Trading Co., Tie Dye Instructions. The dye, urea and soda ash amounts, cure times and washing steps in the tie-dye planner, and its safety advice on masks and gloves.
• R. C. Prim, Shortest Connection Networks and Some Generalizations, Bell System Technical Journal 36, 1957. Prim's algorithm in the maze maker is named for this paper.
• Joseph B. Kruskal, On the Shortest Spanning Subtree of a Graph and the Traveling Salesman Problem, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 7, 1956. Kruskal's algorithm in the maze maker is named for this paper.
• David Bruce Wilson, Generating Random Spanning Trees More Quickly than the Cover Time, Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 1996. Wilson's algorithm in the maze maker is named for this paper.
• Benoit B. Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, W. H. Freeman, 1982. The book that named and popularized fractals, background for the fractal maker.
• Helge von Koch, Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire, Arkiv för Matematik 1, 1904. The Koch snowflake in the fractal maker is named for this paper.
• Wacław Sierpiński, Sur une courbe dont tout point est un point de ramification, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 160, 1915. The Sierpiński triangle in the fractal maker is named for this paper.
• David Hilbert, Über die stetige Abbildung einer Linie auf ein Flächenstück, Mathematische Annalen 38, 1891. The Hilbert curve in the fractal maker is named for this paper.
• Paul Lévy, Les courbes planes ou gauches et les surfaces composées de parties semblables au tout, Journal de l'École Polytechnique, 1938. The Lévy C curve in the fractal maker is named for this paper.
• Martin Gardner, Mathematical Games: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life", Scientific American 223, October 1970. The rule of Conway's Game of Life, which the Game of Life pattern tool runs to draw every phase.
• Barbara G. Walker, Mosaic Knitting, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. The name and the two-row rules of the mosaic patterns in knit colorwork. The charts themselves were drawn for this site.
• Sébastien Truchet, Mémoire sur les combinaisons, Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, 1704. The tiles in the Truchet maker carry his name, from his study of how a split square combines.
• Peter J. Lu and Paul J. Steinhardt, Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture, Science 315, 2007. Background on the five girih tiles behind the 10-fold option of the star maker. The layout itself was found by computer search and doesn't come from this paper.

Traditions

Quilting, knitting, crochet, sashiko, tartan, Celtic knotwork, stained glass and tie-dye belong to generations of makers, most of them unnamed. The designs here are generated or drawn for this site, and they don't copy any one maker's pattern.