Start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

(The last question at the end, and the response, are a riot IMO.)

From there you can read the paper if you like:
http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

(At least two of those references are to real papers, apparently.)

And if you decide that you want to know more about the person responsible, you then find this:
http://isotropic.org/

which has links to code for generating Celtic knotwork and models for Archimedian polyhedra.

Of course.

The noosphere is a wonderful place sometimes, really.