The Giant Clam! **

Giant clam seen in scientists' room, upstairs at Australian Museum, Sydney.


Here begin efforts to create a mathematical hyperbolic model of a giant clam.
Jute twine was used, with  thick dowelling handmade knitting needles.
A new Pattern was used,  starring the number 9.
It was easy to crochet half of a bivalve, but not possible to knit it backwards,  thus a new Pattern was needed,  as described in the following images:-

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In fact, there are four different ways to organise the Pattern:-

You can see the wavy lip in bottom piece,  but it is still far from looking like the Real Thing.

This is Pattern for Crocheting Larger models of "Bivalve" = a great challenge for anyone to try.  My own work is not copyright, as far as I am concerned.  It belongs to Nature,  and we have the way to discover what we wish, according to our curiosity.  I do welcome the efforts of anyone who would like to try to elucidate secrets of our world.  Please share your results, especially students.  I hope these blog posts are of interest.  Thank you all.

------------------------Additional;  2/10/2015
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