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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: 2) by anubi on Tuesday July 15 2014, @02:40AM
I found this whole thing informative.
I saw a kid putting one together at the eatery I attend a lot ( Del Taco ), and kinda marveled at the intricacy of the patterns the kid was putting on it. I thought of it more like those "Indian Braids" they had us making at summer camp in the Boy Scouts. ( Great way to take up a lot of time and earn more money for the camp store selling this highly time-consuming stuff to the kids instead of teaching them something useful ).
I thought it was just the latest fad of time-eater that keeps kids busy doing something harmless.
Never dawned on me about using it as a teaching aid for graph theory.
I saw it more as crochet. I stand corrected. Thanks!
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