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Re: [tg] terminology question



If we're looking for new and descriptive terms, how about "convoluted diamonds" or "tangled diamonds"?  (I have a broad but mostly shallow knowledge of math, and a convolution is plausibly meaningful; "tangled" is the Germanic synonym.)

Dave


On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:04 PM Judy Anderson via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
>as a mostly-irrelevant but possibly amusing datapoint, i tried calling
>"phantom swing thru" from justin's formation at today's C1 dance, and
>the C1 squares did it without hesitation

My theory about "phantom lines swing through" from T-bones with the ends in waves and the centers "in columns" is that you are in a wave, perpendicular to the other one, and you just do it in actual phantom waves, the kind you would get if you had a 4x4 grid, the middle pair. So the centers become ends of their wave and the ends can go occupy the now vacant center spots.

Why I don't like the other formation to do this same kind of overlap is exactly that it feels a lot more like 6 wide, and it doesn't feel like just breathing to put those diamond centers in, perpendicular to the physically present wave. They are very far away. Maybe I could get used to it. I do like putting some kind of "overlap" into it, and I like the "orthogonal" name better than "perpendicular". "Overlapping orthogonal diamonds"?


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