This is the proof in coding that those two
sorts are mathematically,
structurally, visually VERY different one from the other
and only a wooden head will say
otherwise.
Starting from the outermost bight on one side and following the strand
then you get:
U1
- O3
- U3 - O3 - U3 - O3 - U3 - O1
for the Herringbone O3 - U3 -
O3 - U3 - O3 - U3
for the Herringbone-Pineapple
As can be so easily seen, " as the nose in the middle of the face" to
take an old Gallicism : there are more crossings in a Herringbone than
there are in a
Herringbone-Pineapple of same dimensions (number of THK components and
number of PASS).
GUESS WHY ?
simple enough Mr De La Palice ( " a quarter of
an hour before dying he was still living" is a famous
'lapalissade"') would have said :
the nested-bights create less crossings than the NOT-nested bights do
(nested-bights == bight keeping a parallel course with each other so
not able to cross
each other, that contrary to what the NOT-nested bights of
the Herringbone K.do) .
How on earth can one NOT see that and still be considered an ex-spurt
by a countless
crowd ?
I DO wonder.
Added
2010 June 4th
HERRINGBONE
versus
herringbone-PINEAPPLE for those
(apparently
quite a
crowd ! at least if I am to believe what I
see
on some forums and on sites all over)
who find
it impossible to make
unguided, not 'held by the hand' , elementary visual
observations of
those
knots
and so differentiate
those two types of
knots from each other.
In both cases I am showing here it is a 3-PASS knot, same order of
colours in the
making, (PASS-1= blue, PASS-2=white, PASS-3=red) the component THK are
all 7L 4B ( the Herringbone-Pineapple has one set of 3 its
other
structural set of components being 'empty')
I do wonder why this egregious mistake of taking one knot for the other
takes place.
The only explanation I could find after much pondering was :
mental
blindness
and/or
dull interest, or having been (still being) misguided by quite
ill-chosen
pseudo ex-spurt(s) .
A
SIMPLE GLANCE
is more than enough to see that one (the
Herringbone-Pineapple
K.) has
Nests of Bights and the other (the Herringbone K.) has none of
those nests since
it has only a single Bight Rim instead of staged multiple
Bight-Rims.
Both
knots have (as have a lot of other knots that are neither HERRINGBONE K
nor
Herringbone-PINEAPPLE K ) a herringbone PATTERN, but the pattern IS
NEVER TO BE CONFOUNDED WITH the knot cordage route ! The pattern is the
coding.
Added
2010 June 6th (a rather long rambling but it may
teach you something)
This
angry (and a
bit
despairing) topic was prompted by a mail
received from a person
swamped with 'disquiet' after reading
some web page by a so-called ex-spurt or so
acclaimed on some forums.
Fortunately my correspondent appears to be one of
those persons
who
'readily engage their brain at all time' and that person does want to
learn not only to "make" but
also to
"understand the why" and "get the deep structure" of
knots.
This
person
certainly does not belong to the 'spider' club if only because he
detected all by himself the "this cannot be and is not
in accord with visual observation and simple basic pondering" in what
he was dangerously exposed to.
He detected it but was so perturbed
by what he had read that he felt
the need to ask
someone else for confirmation :
such
is the
destructive
power of words of ignorance out on the Web !
... The simple
definition of a pineapple
knot is a herringbone
interweave with nested
bights.
this above in green colour denoting a quote is the
starting point of the cause
of perturbation
.
SIMPLE or rather being a lot nearer to be
SIMPLETON's
DEFINITION ?
No ad hominen intended by a real big '?' floating in my mind.
*** first and
foremost
this is *not* for personal
attack and fight *but for* warning and protection of those led
astray by those egregiously mistaken words.
***
second, in my experience it is no use to hurt people feelings
even when they write
or utter really stupid words ; ad hominem argumentation is
one of the large collection of
fallacies available.
My
stance ( despite possible 'contrary'
appearances ) has always been
:
attack the deed not the doer.
The doer will die eventually but not the
deed
!
*** third there is not only one, alas, person in
this vast Realm
of Ignorance who appears to be Trying to Shine with Silly
utterances so true it is, alas,
that 'au
royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont
rois" / "in the
realm of the blind the one-eyed are kings".
(
by the way : despite some really sore points those Hypothetical's pages
can otherwise be considered far from being the very worst on
the Net -
mind you they could be a whole lot better minus the theoretical
giberrish, their authour should stay basically practical and not
adventure where he cannot hope to survive : theory- at this
condition his pages could be, somewhat, in some cases, be of potential
useful to 'learners' provided
those keep their brain 110% ready to discern and then discard
the
theoretical piffle and balderdash they will find in heaps)
[open quote) ... The simple definition of a pineapple knot is a herringbone interweave with nested
bights.
To achieve this in a pleasing manner we will interweave two odd part
knots with an equal number of bights and differing in parts by two to
make the bights nest.
[end quote]
Well, quite sadly that person who has the pretension to be
able to give a
simple
definition of
PINEAPPLE KNOTS in his web pages appears to
be unaware
that :
--- there are
PINEAPPLE K. that DO NOT HAVE a Herringbone pattern .
--- there are PINEAPPLE K. with THK components of EVEN number of LEAD
--- the PINEAPPLE nature does not rest on the CODING of the pattern (
herringbone or other ) but on the mathematics of the cordage
route. ( proof with images given lower in this topic )
I could add for his information that
--- there are nested-bight
knots
with herringbone pattern THAT ARE NOT PINEAPPLE
--- that In My Opinion And Knowledge he is missing the mark with a
number of his affirmations.(
from imprecise to false : all shades are available !)
Still I am
not here to
try and help
him make better pages ; he just need, if he can do it, to
study the
knots
and Schaake's work.
This last
author being
a much safer source than me.
This hypothetical site may happen - I really
refuse to go there because
I have
no proof in either direction - to be a good
practitioner, but surely
the author has at least some faulty knowledge and should refrain from
disseminating
this false knowledge and seed disquiet in readers' minds.
(if your are troubled by that plural
possessive - I received mail telling me of 'mistake' where there is
apparently no
mistake - just study your own language http://www.meredith.edu/grammar/plural.htm
)
Most probably there are persons giving him (I wonder why on earth,
if only because *no*
one can hold such a position permanently but rarely and atthe very best
only for a transitory moment) the position of an ex-spurt.
Seems to me, seen from my chair, that
some will not have engaged their sharpest brain or will not
have enough personal verified and validated
knowledge to filter what is said to them by this alleged
ex-spurt.
In principle it is laudable to 'make things simple' but I personally
find it quite
worrying when they
are made SIMPLISTIC AND
EGREGIOUSLY MISTAKEN
by doing so.
You do need to be awfully 'good' on a topic to make
it
'simple'.
Never
make things simpler than
is absolutelynecessary
= =
never
make things simple at
the cost of their validity.
If I am to believe the
appearances he has given in his writings, the web site's
author is sorely in
need
to learnquite a
lot of things that are missing in his knowledge store
about Herringbone-Pineapple K. and Herringbone K.
just to
mention a very few of the sore points.
Mind you he may readily be forgiven for being mistaken if only because
he is
not
the only one ; being mistaken is a right ( under the provision that it
is not
a
permanent state ! but a very transitory phase) . What cannot be
forgiven, in my world, is the wanton contamination of others
with one's own mistaken ideas
and, in a lesser measure, the
complaisance vis à vis one's own ignorance leading to not searching
enough and
so enlarge sufficiently one's VERIFIED and VALIDATED
knowledge
before risking leading others
astray )
BUT
WHAT TAKES THE PRIZE IS another funny point, courtesy
of same source, this
time about Herringbone Knots.
By now it is obvious
that we are "nesting" the bights of the interweave
behind the crosses between the bights of the foundation. This is one
level past the nesting we used for the simple pineapple and some would
contend that this is a pineapple also.This is probably a matter of
semantics*** and I
will not dispute the matter. In fact when
the knot is
properly tightened the bights of the interweave will be partly or
completely hidden by this nesting depending on the material used to
braid the knot.
PLEASE ! PLEASE!! PLEASE!!!
Remind me of my youth-looong ago- in London OHPLEASE DO NOTKISSME ! OHPLEASE DO NOTKISS ! OHPLEASE DO NOT !
OHPLEASE DO !
OHPLEASE ! OH ! !
PLEASE ! PLEASE!! PLEASE!!!
HAVE PITY AND DESIST
FROM UTTERING
SUCH ABERRATIONS IN SERIES !
This
is *not* about bookish knowledge BUT IT IS INDEED about SIMPLE VISUAL
EXAMINATION, followed
by engaging one's brain to draw conclusions from
THE FACTS
SEEN
!
It is
beyond my imagination to imagine an intelligent and knowledgeable
person going
about in such a way.... ...Unless that guy
wants to use the same word (nest/nested...) for two
different concepts?
If that then THAT
is very bad communication.( see ***
at the bottom of this topic )
It does not demand that much clarity of
mind to
realize that:
--- it is NOT a matter
of semantic (and not semantics as
spelled by that guy who does not seems to have a good
handle on words in his own
language if I believe what I see written)
but of
--- very different mathematical
structure,*****
it is
not from --- personal quirks in
attribution of meaning to words (semantic which pertain to the words
-semantics which pertain to the science )
but from objective
constraints and criteria ( alas not only one criterion
)
Such intellectual
fault really anger me when it is put to use
to lead other persons astray.
If I were not having the uneasy and quite disquieting notion -- I don't
like
appearing as feeling superior but... - -that this
guy is
already attempting
to
understand things several steps above what he can easily manage *alone*
and is
exploring well beyond the outer reaches of his wits and ken I would
tell him to write command lines for the
computation of Herringbone Half-period and for Herringbone-Pineapple
Knots Half-periods.
We would then see
if he can
do that while holding the absurd idea that Herringbone have nested-
bight and that all the differences are """""just about
semantics""""
How stupid this notion is indeed cannot even be hinted
at!
Believe me (at your own risk) if you cannot analyse the
mathematical formulas involved and given somewhere in those
pages of mine ; taken from Schaake's works).
One more thing :
The author of those gems seems to me to belong to the
rather
large crowd of persons who for all intents and purposes appear to
believe that "showing" (describing if you want) is "explaining".
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxa
little diggressionxxxxxxxjump it !xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I do use that trick myself = "showing" but I do try to take care to put
in
the "what is shown" what will be necessary to the readers for
them to be able to built their own explanation using
their
brain and not just their visual sensors.
Faulty logical reasoning it is to equate 'describe' with
'explain' !
This is making the confusion between axioms and
phenomenology.
To explain one needs to turn a 'particular' into a
'general'.
THIS is not done by showing pretty drawings more targeted at
impressing the viewer than at expressing a formalised reality
!
One
can only show, that is offer to acquisition through our
senses, a 'particular' while a 'general' can only be acquired
through the application of superior ( superior in the meaning of the
word in neurology) intellectual processes and abstraction.
One
does not need to analyse in order to
'show' but just need
to observe ( I can draw
something that I am not able to understand for
lack of intelligence or lack of education or both.)
To
explain one must analyse, understand and formalise to get a
'general' statement.
Observing and describing == stopping at appearances
which
are 'a particular'.
A
description needs to be thoroughly analysed ( an enumeration is not an
analyse ) and
interpreted , it is not a finished, a readily usable
product, it is just 'building material'.
That is why a 'classification' even one as good as Linnaeus's does not explain any thing !
Do you think that describing (even perfectly) a volcanic eruption is
the same as explaining volcanism?
One
can describe to the perfection the retrograde movement of planets and
yet be unable to explain it ( Ptolémée did that, yet he
could even
make useful predictions with that !)
One can make a perfect description and be utterly unable to explain or
really understand what one just described .
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxend
of a little diggressionxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Explaining = = going well BEYOND appearances and attaining 'a general'.
To explain is not always to understand fully ! ( just thinks
about 'gravity' )
A sensor (an adequate one) can describe in the range of its
'sensing' ; only a fully functioning human brain can explain.
Mind
you, observation (to look at is *not* to observe) description
and depiction are building material for attaining an explanation.
Still
having all the plans, the authorisations, the bricks, cement
and
whatever is no use to get a house built if you
don't
have masons !
Masons 'explain' the material 'into' a house. ( or a bridge or...)
Of course instead of "showing" I could do it the simplest and fastest
way =
just a line of
mathematical formulas.
Those formulas establish the magnitude of the difference between
* a knot with a herringbone pattern being a
Herringbone-Pineapple Knot with
nested-bights
and
* a knot with a herringbone pattern being a Herringbone Knot withOUT
nested-bights!
A
tip to you readers =
till Mr Hypothetical HIMSELF - or one of his friends-
can write us a
computer
application using same formulas and equations to do
Herringbone K. and
Herringbone-Pineapple K. Half-Period coding (using his absurd notion
that both
knots have nested-bights) just conservatively
consider that what I say is right and that he is desperately
wrong .
Stupidity,
error, illusion, delusion, whatever you do for and with yourself is an
inalienable personal freedom but NO one may attempt (and
succeed at that
alas ! ) to propagate mistaken ideas and pollute other brains. There is
a notion that is
often
forgotten in the 360° defence of "free speech" : it is the abusing of
free speech by
dissemination of stupid notions to the unaware.
Only when
you
have made your utmost to be as certain as possible of what you transmit
may you offer
your words without warning readers/hearers that there is a lot of
chances that you are giving them malarkey !
Error
is a hazard any one can easily fall prey to (I know I have, often
enough
in my
life, been its victim, but never for long and I always refrained from
contaminating others with my own imbecility) but
this stage of 'being mistaken'
should be the shortest transitional phase available
and not a permanent state ; only
the most dumb
deliberately let it be permanent .
There
is NO NESTED-BIGHT in a Standard HERRINGBONE knots for the evident
reason that the bights are ALL ON THE SAME BIGHT
BORDER !
Even the 'blind lame dumb ass at the fair' could see the difference on
isometric diagrams
Herringbone == NO nested-bight
Herringbone-Pineapple == NESTED-BIGHT
How brain-blind can one need to be not to realise that in a
blink ?
NESTED-BIGHTS == BIGHTS THAT ARE
PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER !
Would
seems simple
enough for even the sleepiest mind to get that simple notion straight
first
time around no ?
Not so
it appears in
fact!
(not that I
am saying that this guy is intrinsically really stupid, no, what I am
saying is
that his words are hugely
mistaken and apparently he is quite pleased and fully
satisfied to stay mistaken! Never had the simple courtesy to answer my
'for your
information' mails in the past
so I desisted from trying to open his eyes he wanted desesparately to
keep tightly shut.
As so often is the case the
ignorant wants to propagate the ignorance just
as drug addicts want to propagate
their addiction : both behaviours are detrimental to other's health (
mental / physical ) )
When the BIGHTS INTERSECT EACH
OTHER ON what is ESSENCE-ally
(essentially, in essence) a single
bight rim it is
painfully evident that they ARE
NOT, CAN NOT BE NESTED.
Would you say that in a regular Turk's Head K.
there are NESTED BIGHT? No ! of course NO!
yet it is EXACTLY the conformation you see in a HERRINGBONE K. so why
accept to see NESTED Bights there in the Herringbone K. ? The
nested
bight are a bit like the seaweeds left by the tide. In a pile of plates the plates are 'nested'
when "as a hand of cards' they are NOT nested.
In fact the pile of plates is not fully satisfying, one of them at
least should have been of a smaller diameter.
So much ignorance, so complacently exposed to the blind admiration of
other persons
(some of which with a sincere
desire to learn and make progress and are
irremediably led astray ! )
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER
blindly accept someone as an ex-spurt, NEVER, NEVER,
NEVER relinquish
the sharp use of your own brain. (please!
I ask, for
your intellectual
safety, that you APPLY
THIS COUNSEL TO THIS SITE OF
MINE, even if you don't want to make that favour
to
others sites ; in last resort you will be doing the favour to yourself
not to me)
I would hate to see my words accepted without honest,
open,sharp intellectual examination and cross verification
with independent validated sources. (the same parroting going
around and around on some forum or in some books areNOT validated
and
independent sources so high is the plagiarism or
copy-catting rate in
this domain.
***** If I had to implement
TWO DIFFERENT programs (in HP48GX and in Excel
Worksheet) one for
HERRINGBONE K. ( NO nested-bight)
and one for Herringbone-PINEAPPLE K. ( WITH nested-bight)
it
is because their very natures are quite different as
far as the nested-bight
or
no-nested-bight (Poor Yorick !) is concerned and that difference
demands a
very different calculation treatment.
--------------------------------------- ***semantics
: the whole body of
study while IF one wants to refer to ' one word and the meaning
attributed to it - which is clearly the semantic
content of that guy's words- it is 'semantic' without 's'.
semantics: the whole body of study of meaning in a language
semantic ( or semantical) : the meaning value/content
attributed to a word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics
The
Cambridge
International Dictionary of English nest [SET]..... a set of
things that are similar but of different
size and
have been designed
to fit inside each other.
Operative words : designed TO FIT INSIDE each other.
Added
2010 June 7th
"A
bon entendeur Salut !"
equivalent (or about equivalent) to:
"words to the wise !" :
Biological
manure is an outstanding way to enrich, fertilise and
make
better a poor soil BUT intellectual manure is a sure way to rot and
corrupt brains.
Beware the brand of manure you fertilise your garden with but *do not
use any manure* on your brain's cells ;
if you carefully select and husband
the seeds YOU accept to have sown there then you will prosper.
One's own brain if one respects it by using it every second of the day
about *any* thing heard, seen, felt, read, experienced or perceived is
a wonderful
instrument given to each and all of us.
Alas some let it go derelict and/or keep it fallow.
DO NOT BE ONE OF THOSE !
BE
PARANOID AND ALWAYS "EN GARDE" and do watch out for the contagious
ignorants (myself included in some domains ;-D |
ignorant I mean, not trying to
contaminate)
trying to
contaminate you.
The ones you must avoid
most are of the "healthy carrier" type : the guy to
whom naive
persons
made a reputation of being an "ex-spurt, their favourable opinion being
mostly founded on their own undiagnosed and untreated ignorance.
Copyright 2005 Sept - Charles
Hamel / Nautile -
Overall rewriting in August 2006 .
Copyright renewed. 2007-2014 -(each year of existence)