Hopes & Dreams
Thanks-
i could use more help. i've done some more knots here of the Square Family for the kids here; also there are certin lessons and patterns that carry over to all knotting IMLHO; in these simplest of knots. The part i need help with is feed back on a comparison of the 2 animation styles of the friction hitches to the square family please.
knots extended.
i hope everyone is familiar with the treasures in my
Knot Links Page; links stolen from many of your own postings from 10 years ago at ISA till now. Also, find that you can let mouse settle over a link, and a short description of content appears (without having to go to the page linked). This is especially useful when looking for certain knots, etc. and not having to open every link. It starts with general knots and goes to specialized and knot theory links.
Eternally in 1st place is the Proffeseur Grog's sight that you mentioned. The latest upgrade is great; and is under a new name by itself; not under the Grog site with his magic squares site and stereo art etc. as it had been. Because the knot site was so popular! If you link from my site to his; the MyTreeLessons logo(such as it is) appears at top of the page; courtesy of the Grog. i've talked to him on phone a couple of times, a very nice and learned man.
i don't seek to duplicate his works, and will focus mostly on 'Blue Collar'/ working knots; mostly towards arborist type utility. But, some overlap is sure to occur; and also if/when i make scaffold hitch i will make anchor; because A) after 6+ hours making scaffold; anchor might only take 1/2 hour (don't ya know it feels good to turn allthat time into 2 knots so quickly!) and B) to show the similarity of design lending understanding of l-earning 2 knots for 1 and similar mechanics.
i envision a knot sight of my own (all ways have); but to go beyond knots into knotting mechanics, learning groups of similar knots at once rather than 1 at a time; pulley (inline multiplication of force) theories and angular rope force (non-inline multiplication of force) of speed lines and line sweating. Also some history, lore and cross referancing (i don't think Grog had ABoK #'s in last site etc. when i started stewing on all this). Items such as
2Handing ya might not find anywhere else; and in such a gathering of all these wonderful rope things All with eye candy imageries of force flow thru a rope as a device, like the force of electricity through a wire device etc. Arborist rope tools (brakes, cams, pulleys, krabs etc.).
If all that leads to a bulk of knots in Flash; that i should go on to other knots for comprehensiveness; then i will focus on more 'matching' my efforts to other sites. 1 thing of consideration is i am using a different medium(Flash). Most sites are in raster graphics; that have larger file size, are freeze frame, and any enlargement gives less quality and larger file size. With Flash's vector art; we can have huge pix (especially for hard of seeing and kids) in brilliant / high quality and at a fast loading small file size (for dialup etc.). The small file sizes also leave room for fancy intro's, background etc.(but probably not backgorund on knots, as part of the 'trick' for less work is all the lines have shadows, the black background makes them disapear, unless the lines are over another/when they should have shadows!) Also, the mouse grab-able slider to go to anyplace in the animation is s/lightly better than the freeze frame points of his slideshow. All, in all; a different medium; perhaps more worthy of 'duplicating' knots on other sites. Though the authoring file of the Square family animation is 1/2 meg. the file you download to watch is ~22k(which in normal raster/photo graphics might be 1 small, fair quality pic, not a 1000 frames of them in motion) for 9 knots animated that will reatain file size and quality on any size screen, no loss at blowing up with zoom(right click animation and zoom 10 times or so!). The 7 animations on 1 page for
Side Dutching a face and BarberChair Warning gives a fast loading, zoomable proof. i've all ways wanted to get
these pictures out of my head for
some years now of all the wonders of these things. Also, i look at doing tree biology on some home owner topics of understandings of the secret lives of trees from the inside out; not ripping collars, codoms, hormone flows etc. in the main MTL site (not knot site).
i hope i have enough time to do my best; and seek not to be the end 'expert'; jsut one lending their understandings in the time of my own passing thru for the next person/generation to take further/ add their layer to the whole. The MTL is in someways bloated(like this post
); i still maintain; that it is in it's infancy; much work to be done!
Thanx to all including Tom for keeping all this together until it's time to grow and mature into the sites that are now available for all, excellance of Mark and Mahk to reach for, ol'Joe, Cary, Glens, MM keeping me on my toes and thinking/explaining thoughts, the expansion of the visual for(u)m by MB; all the help and expansion lent by the Knude one (whom i plan on exploiting much,much further), as well as too many i have left out! And all ways to Doc Shigo; a real follower of his dreams and understanding against all naysayers; for the beneift of all Nature and mankind alike(usually 2 different categories for some reason!).
Okay, i'm done (fer now!)
; sorry, but this has been a multi-dimensional, long term dream; given much thought!
