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I particularly like the comparison between similar knots that helps you understand when one is better than the other.
How are more people not obsessed with knots? It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties. The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery yo…
Is knitting a really long knot?
In fact, the words are etymologically linked, they’re really just the same word! See https://www.etymonline.com/word/knit
> knit(v.)
> Old English cnyttan "to tie with a knot, bind together, fasten by tying," related to Old Norse knytja "bind together, form into a knot," Middle Low German knütten "to tie, knot," Old English cnotta "a knot," from Proto-Germanic knuttjan, from stem knutt-. Of brows, late 14c. Intransitive meaning "do knitting, weave by looping or knotting a continuous thread" (especially in reference to plain stitch) is from 1520s.
How are more people not obsessed with knots? It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties. The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery yo…
I wish I did scouting as a kid. Knot tying seems so fun and useful.
Here's one US Marines use (pdf):
https://web.archive.org/web/20170516214745/https://www.marso...
To anyone into knots, I recommend Knots 3D on Android. It is really handy because most people keeps the phone with them all the time. Beautiful and well maintained app. It's not overwhelming, in the sense that it doesn't try to add every existing knot in the same database, it has usage, which gives context, history and specially related knots, which makes it possible to compare different related knots that are usuall…
How are more people not obsessed with knots? It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties. The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery yo…
Knots as code, code as knots: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2107
How are more people not obsessed with knots? It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties. The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery yo…
The space robot you send to another planet utilizes knots: https://www.planetary.org/articles/20120905-knots-on-mars
"It might surprise most people to learn that multitudes of knots tied in cords and thin ribbons have probably traveled on every interplanetary mission ever flown. If human civilization ends tomorrow, interplanetary landers, orbiters, and deep space probes will preserve evidence of both the oldest and newest of human technologies for thousands, if not millions of years.
Knots are still used in this high-tech arena because cable lacing has long been the preferred cable management technique in aerospace applications. That it remains so to this day is a testament to the effectiveness of properly chosen knots tied by skilled craftspeople. It also no doubt has a bit to do with the conservative nature of aerospace design and engineering practices. Proven technologies are rarely cast aside unless they no longer fulfill requirements or there is something substantially better available."
How are more people not obsessed with knots? It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties. The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery yo…
Is knitting a really long knot?
These first two links talks about a knit being a series of knots - slip knots specifically. The other two suggest a knit is a very long knot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190519004510/https://www.nytim...
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~rlg131/topology_and_knitting...
https://mathemalchemy.org/2021/03/04/knots-trivial-and-other...
https://iwoolknit.com.au/blogs/news/the-science-of-knitting-...
If you wrap it around a pipe or tube using a cow hitch or prusik, it creates an eyelet that is as reliable as if it were welded in place, but is also easily moved by loosening it slightly. On bicycle tours I use them to create ad hoc eyelets on my racks which make lashing oddly-shaped things on the rack easier. They also work great for converting a small diameter eyelet into a larger one.