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In response to a comment from a previous article about the loom-band craze, I investigated the matter in much more detail and with the objective of creating optimally dithered wristbands. After overcoming several difficulties, such as making anything in an adult size, I definitely believe this craze is wholesome and teaches useful skills to kids.
Most specifically, for a craft that requires all loops to be interlinked, a cursory understanding of directed graphs is essential. Indeed, I find it worrying that there are some five year olds who understand directed graphs more intuitively than some computer scientists.
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Floyd-Steinberg Dithered Sine-Wave Loom-Band Wristbands
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(Score: 5, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday July 14 2014, @03:03PM
> Floyd-Steinberg Dithered Sine-Wave Loom-Band Wristbands.
I actually have a rare first edition of their first album on vinyl. Of course they were never as good after their thereminist died in that tragic LSD-related tiger-polo accident.
(Score: 2) by nitehawk214 on Monday July 14 2014, @04:43PM
Oh, I thought this was a paper on astrophysics or something.
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