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Elastic knots are really mind bending

Steve Mould 11:34

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When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops and challenging puzzles.

Here's my video about pop-up tents: https://youtu.be/-HDSPCMZNws
Here's the elastic knots paper: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/research-projects/deployable-structures/elastic-knots/

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