Hitomezashi is a traditional form of Japanese embroidery in which patterns arise from the alignment of single stitches made on a grid, as in the picture above. A random Hitomezashi pattern on a rectangle can be generated by choosing two random sequences in a two-symbol alphabet, for example 10111100011 and 101001110. The first sequence governs the verti…
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