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Copyright Charles HAMEL 20 Avril 2011 Page 2 sur 23
Release version 1.1 June 2011
Lets us state some points.
*** Most often the cylindrical diagram is
easy to deduce once the coloured
markers are in place, that despite the
aberrant clockwise move that is shown
on some of the flat diagrams that on a
vertical cylinder translates into the
aberrant BOTTOM-LEFT to TOP-RIGHT for
ODD numbered HALF-PERIODS.
( to know the meaning I attached to
‘aberrant’ please read page 7 and
beginning of page 8 of my .pdf on Pins
notation at
http:/charles.hamel.free.fr/knots-andcordages/PUBLICATIONS/KnotNotatio
n-V1.pdf
This aberration is corrected in all but
one of the cylindrical diagrams and
ODD numbered Half-Periods go from
BOTTOM- RIGHT to TOP LEFT.
*** I also dispense with what is, in my
opinion at least, a formidably inefficient
way of indicating the nature of the
crossings which is more hinder than
help for the knot-tyer and may have
some usefulness only if used with a
cord laid on a printed diagram.
Ashley went for ‘proprietary
formulation’ alas his utterly bizarre
crossing ‘cryptography” :
- is cumbersome, more hinder
than help for the knot tyer
- is quite error prone
- does not allow the immediate
perception of the “PATTERN”
made by the crossings.
All in all “ a work not really done and
certainly not to be done” ( ni fait, ni à
faire as goes the French expression to
qualify a somewhat less than ideal job)
A parté : immediate rejection without a carefully and
honest open-mind critical evaluation (as for
academic works) is bad but I do wonder for sure if
parroted and medullar ( automated, by-passing the
brain higher structures and functions) praise and
admiration without same examination is not worse.
Ashley’s work is a tremendous effort, irreplaceable,
but is far from lacking in sore points !
We begin with a “shock” treatment
using #2218 first.
After that first dive in cold water we
take a more reasonable learning
gradient : #2216, #2222, #2217,
#2219 (#1391), #2232
Readers who prefer to
avoid any possibility of
brain sprain will best go
directly to #2216, read
till they are finished with
#2217 then go back to
#2218 and finish with
#2219 , #2232.