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Two crocheted coasters. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
@alisonkiddle Lovely, they are inverses/duals of each other...
@KarenCampe @samholloway asked if any colours would match if we overlapped them (and answered his own question by checking if there were an odd or even number of colours)
@alisonkiddle @samholloway so if there were an odd number of colors, there would have to be overlap... (one color wouldn't have a "partner")
@alisonkiddle I guess you end up using about the same amount of each yarn by reversing the colours? (I wonder what type of fibre you have and what weight, and where from because I am a mild yarn geek)
@alisonkiddle I like how in each row the corners are made by having a pair of clusters, which make disgonals from the outer corners to the centre of the square, and how that sort of works but doesn't for the middle row.
@lnr it's some teeny tiny balls of cotton I got when I was on holiday, it crochets up nicely with a 3mm hook but as they are tiny the label has very little info apart from that!
@alisonkiddle very late to the party, but the thing that wonder is this:
Can the two patterns be placed on top of each other, but translated an rotated (so they don't have to overlap 100%) such that no colours match? What about exactly one colour matching? What about 2? What about 3, 4, 5 or all of them?
0 is obvious cause that means placing them on top of each other, and all colours is obvious too cause you can put the center of the first on the corner of the second.
But the others are harder.
@Elmusfire nice question! I want to make an ideal version that's actually square to explore this...
@alisonkiddle It turns out all of them are possible; I have drawn all different ways to overlay them on top of eachother in the attachment.
@alisonkiddle I changed the tool to find the overlaps to prefer "simpler" overlaps.
