It's so interested to me how there are such clear points of the cycle where, from beginning to end, there is a polygon with as half as many sides as there are points moving that transitions into recognizable shapes like a nonogon, octogon, septagon, hexagon, pentagon, and so on, even including things like a star and a single uniform line of points before it reaches the halfway point and works its way back to the start.
What I find interesting is that when all the points match up to form a triangle (1:40), you can see many other points and lines in the middle of that, forming a shape that's similar to the outline of a triquetra. You can see something similar when they make a rhombus/square at 1:15. Except it's got an extra thing because it's now 4 corners instead of 3. There's also 2 lines intersecting in the middle with the rhombus. Sorry to go onto a winding tangent here, but one of the reasons why this intrigues me so much is because something I like to do that's called poi. It's essentially a ball on a string, and you can spin it in various interesting ways. One of the tricks you can do is called "anti-spin flowers", where the poi is spinning in one direction, but your hand goes around in the opposite direction of the poi (so poi spins clockwise, hand travels counter clockwise, and vice-versa). The result is the poi taking a path thats similar to the shapes I pointed out earlier (the ones inside the rhombus and triangle). The most interesting part? Say you want an anti-spin flower that has four "petals". Well, to do that, you essentially move your hand in the shape of a rhombus/square. If you want one with 3 "petals" (the triquetra, as it's commonly called), then you move your hand in the shape of a triangle.
0:00 Start
5:00 Loop
2:30 line
1:40 triangle
1:00 Pentagon
1:15 Diamond
2:00 Star #1
1:52 Star #2
0:50 Hexagon
2:27 Oval
1:25 Star #3
0:37 octagon
0:43 Heptagon
1:06 Star #4
2:08 Star #5
It's so interested to me how there are such clear points of the cycle where, from beginning to end, there is a polygon with as half as many sides as there are points moving that transitions into recognizable shapes like a nonogon, octogon, septagon, hexagon, pentagon, and so on, even including things like a star and a single uniform line of points before it reaches the halfway point and works its way back to the start.
1:59 *satan has entered the chat*
ACTUAL CYCLES
5:00 Full cycle
2:30 Half cycle
1:40 3rd cycle
1:15 4th cycle
1:00 5th cycle
0:50 6th cycle
0:43 7th cycle
0:37 8th cycle
0:33 9th cycle
0:30 10th cycle
0:25 12th cycle
0:18 16th cycle
0:15 20th cycle
0:12 25th cycle
0:10 30th cycle
0:09 32th cycle
---------BEFORE HALF CYCLE---
2:00 The 5th cycle for a half cycle upcoming
2:08 The 7th cycle for a half cycle upcoming
1:52 The 8th cycle for a half cycle upcoming
2:13 The 9th cycle for a half cycle upcoming
-----BEFORE 3RD CYCLE
1:26 7th cycle before 3rd cycle
1:30 10th cycle before 3rd cycle
Number of polyrhythms
What I find interesting is that when all the points match up to form a triangle (1:40), you can see many other points and lines in the middle of that, forming a shape that's similar to the outline of a triquetra. You can see something similar when they make a rhombus/square at 1:15. Except it's got an extra thing because it's now 4 corners instead of 3. There's also 2 lines intersecting in the middle with the rhombus.
Sorry to go onto a winding tangent here, but one of the reasons why this intrigues me so much is because something I like to do that's called poi. It's essentially a ball on a string, and you can spin it in various interesting ways. One of the tricks you can do is called "anti-spin flowers", where the poi is spinning in one direction, but your hand goes around in the opposite direction of the poi (so poi spins clockwise, hand travels counter clockwise, and vice-versa). The result is the poi taking a path thats similar to the shapes I pointed out earlier (the ones inside the rhombus and triangle).
The most interesting part? Say you want an anti-spin flower that has four "petals". Well, to do that, you essentially move your hand in the shape of a rhombus/square. If you want one with 3 "petals" (the triquetra, as it's commonly called), then you move your hand in the shape of a triangle.
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