JIMBO CAVEAT
(valid for ALL tutorials -except my own- in this web site)
: all
tutorials are provided
" as their author wants them to be", I did
not edit any of them, I did not proof any of
them in the cordage,
and they reflect their author personal realisation and stance in
explaining things.
Added 2013 February 19th
in direct relation to the topics at the bottom of this page Added 2013 February
4th A
TWO
COLOR SPIRAL
SENNIT"
FINDING A NEW DESCRIPTIVE (as opposed to "attributive") LABEL FOR THIS
SENNIT PROPOSED BY JIMBO
[open
quote Jimbo]
I'm honored and flattered that you keep using my name.
BUT...
Could you post this on your page?
============================
Charles,
I'm flattered that, as a shorthand way of talking about it, you've
started hanging my nickname on this bit of kinkery. However,
I'd hate to have that "stick", at least without some demurring!!
Maybe we could start
calling it a "Spring Sennit"... Or a
"Self-Helical Sennit"... 4-Strand Helicoid Sennit works for
me, if you recall our earlier discussions of this
wee bit of knot magick... Plus it makes people aware of the
difference
between a Helix (a line) and a Helicoid (a 3D helical
structure)...
Obviously I'm open to suggestions!
Not that I'd seriously object to joining Mr. Walker!! But not
without at least asking for a better name for this.
SO,
is there anything
besides "Jimbo's Sennit" that names
this?
Just asking. I'm fascinated by the discussion!!
...
It would flatter me to be remembered, but I can't sit idly by and
let that happen.
Besides, it's the
Adjustable Ancient Sling
that I actually DID invent "from scratch".
I got too much of this from TIAT to take full credit.
[end quote of Jimbo]
TIAT, IMO was the guy who gave publicity to this sennit algorithm plus
a
rather
bizarre IMO nothing more than an astute commercial gimmick for me)
label but I will never believe
that he was its 'inventor'.
It is a much too simple algorithm not to have been found before by
several of the so
many knots tyers since humanity began playing with rope. His
proposed 'avatar' of this knotting algorithm is soft, without
any mechanical special characteristics,
yours
have very special mechanical characteristics and in all what I have
seen this TIAT person
did not even begin to hint at that.
If a rose grower
pre-existing takes a pre-existing rose and with much
creativity gets
a new mutation from it he owes nothing to the rose diffuser of the rose
he starts with since then it is a completely different flower that
is proposed.
For my part I see this sennit that you offered as a WHOLE DIFFERENT
ENTITY from
the one shown in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiLkv4BrWM
and anyone with functional eyes and brain can easily see that.
Still it would be nice to have some proposal if only just for the fun
of it.
I tend to favour "descriptive" so I am all for :
self-conforming helical spring sennit
or fancy name
Transformer helical spring sennit
Added 2013 February 17th
A FULL UPDATE of JIMBO's ANCIENT SLING that appeared
in Friends-page_12 a while ago
Added 2013 February
4th ( added February 10th follow the story in Bats_belfry_19
)
A TWO
COLOR SPIRAL
SENNIT
A litlle over a year ago in Friend_page_12 I put a
topic Added
January 24th
with the
title New creation/invention from Jimbo
Jimbo very recently ressurected his project of tutorial and he wrote to
a number of us ( Don, Jimmy, Joe, Roy and myself ) asking if we could
test it [open quote]
Hi, friends,
I have written a tutorial for a strange, springy sennit I half
made-up half
discovered.
I was hoping I could persuade you to give the instructions a try
&
reply with your sternest criticism. I don't really have a
good
ending yet...
[end quote]
THE
TOPIC ABOVE THIS ONE HAS AN UPDATE OF TUTORIAL GIVEN JUST
HERE UNDER
Here is my test
using this tutorial.
I started with two equal length,
about140cm ,
150cm each.
At the point of the firsts2Pi helix GREEN has 44cm more left on
each"branch" than RED has.
I made this
"ending",
scoubidou inspired. (In fact Crowning )
This
spiral sennit by
Jimbo has really surprising MECHANICAL
CHARACTERISTICS yielded
by a particularly tight setting ; this is the point that here
is the real novelty as the knotting algorithm is so simple
that anyone in the long past of
knotting could have
invented, re-invented it a thousand times, no particular genius in it,
just systematic
exploration
or as Desmond Mandeville named them
: "trambles".(REEF...REED....SEED...SHED...SHOD... SHOT...SNOT...KNOT
, one crossing change at a time and see if
the knotted structure still makes sense ). No special intelligence
needed, just perseverance and
paper and pencil to take notes.
I have been appraised by several correspondents of two claims
that this was JD TIAT
invention of someone called JD TIAT and not at all Jimbo's.
Two remarks :
1/ As far as I know Jimbo never claimed to have invented the knotting
algorithm but only to
have obtained/discovered particular mechanical properties
that were previously unpublished.
2/ Just as Nature use co-evolution, findings can occur independently,
in particular with a so simple knotting algorithm.
Now for the subtle and not so subtle allusions to possible plagiary (I
DO NOT take very kindly to that )
ENDLESS
FALLS by TIAT (who cannot be the certified inventor of this
tying algorithme,
just, at
the very best, its diffuser)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiLkv4BrWM
Only
the worst observer will be unable to see the astronomical MECHANICAL
difference in behaviour between this STRAIGHT
and SOFT Endless Falls
structure and Jimbo
SPIRAL
UNDER TENSIONwith
its very peculiar behaviour.
A very simple observation clearly show that
one structure, Endless Falls,
is LINEAR and rather SOFT while the SPIRAL SENNIT is an HELIX which is
UNDER TENSION , sufficiently so to induce a sort of shape
memory
which
gives
it is holding power.
The fact that a very tight
setting could give the structure some quite particular
mechanical characteristic is here the real
finding that apparently fully escaped JD attention ( just look
at his very
soft and linear knot.)
As for this other proposal as source for a
plagiary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOObJxOlH1c&feature=youtu.be
You need to be blind and know nothing about knot tying to confuse this
knotting algorithm with the other one.
So there
is indeed no need to imply, even indirectly, plagiary and
lying from Jimbo and myself.
You will also find idea from JIMBO in the Friend's pages.
* Friend's
page-1 trick for band hat ;
constrictor with one hand
* Friend's
page-2 a key fob ; a neat splice
* Friend's
page-3 new fob ; micro-splicing ; zebra
zoologist and others topics by same
* Friend's
page-4 a GPS lanyard ; a very astute hitch ;
making a fid without a lathe ;
another key fob
* Friend's
page-5 several topics in particular on the Brummel
splice
* Friend's
page-11 a dragonfly mobile
* Friend's
page-12 the presenttaion of what will lead to the
two tuts that are the first two
entries in this page
Copyright 2005 Sept - Charles
Hamel / Nautile -
Overall rewriting in August 2006 .
Copyright renewed. 2007-2014 - (each year)
