“This suggests that knitting is governed by fundamental mathematical principles—ones that could be harnessed to design materials with precise, tunable behaviors.” 

(We’ve been knitting for so long — centuries — it’s just that no one bothered to figure out the math behind it all until now. It’s always been intuition)
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-theoretical-physics.html

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I almost tagged you but I wasn’t sure if that was annoying 😂 I had a feeling this was up your alley ♥️

Also important in computing: the Jacquard loom was the first machine to automate a complex task using binary instructions. It used punch cards to enter different patterns.

This was the inspiration for Babbage’s analytical engine, the first general purpose computer.