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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
Ive been working to categorize all types of flowers in an attempt to find more. I believe Ive finally finished and have discovered many new ones (to me) along the way. Decided to share what Ive got in an attempt to both educate those who may not be aware of some of them as well as get info on any I may be missing. Heres the breakdown...
There are 4 categories of flowers:
-Basic flowers
-Counter flowers
-Goofy flowers
-Half flowers
Basic flowers are the simplest and usually the first ones people learn. They're just your average flower where the poi and arms are both rotating in the same directional pattern (ie, poi are spinning forward chase/arms are spinning forward chase; and poi are spinning forward butterfly/arms are spinning forward butterfly)
Counter flowers are what Ive been calling anti-spin flowers before all the anti-spin jargon started. You can call them what you want, but in this case, they're counter flowers
They're the ones where your arms rotate opposite (or counter) the direction your poi are spinning (ie your poi are rotating forward chase/your arms are rotating reverse chase; and your poi are rotating forward butterfly while your arms are rotating reverse butterfly)
Goofy is the term Ive come up with to describe flowers where your arms are doing the wrong directional pattern for the way the poi are spinning (ie your poi are doing butterfly but your arms are rotating chase, and vice verce). This forces one poi to always be doing counter spin while the other always does normal.
Half flowers are where your arms only complete half a rotation before going back the way they came forcing the poi to do normal spin one way, then counter spin on the way back.
All of these can be done as a chase or as a butterfly, in split or same time. Its also great to be able to turn all of these 360 and some of them are actually easier that way.
Anyway, gimme some feedback, especially if you have some flower ideas I havent yet thought of.
Ive been working to categorize all types of flowers in an attempt to find more. I believe Ive finally finished and have discovered many new ones (to me) along the way. Decided to share what Ive got in an attempt to both educate those who may not be aware of some of them as well as get info on any I may be missing. Heres the breakdown...
There are 4 categories of flowers:
-Basic flowers
-Counter flowers
-Goofy flowers
-Half flowers
Basic flowers are the simplest and usually the first ones people learn. They're just your average flower where the poi and arms are both rotating in the same directional pattern (ie, poi are spinning forward chase/arms are spinning forward chase; and poi are spinning forward butterfly/arms are spinning forward butterfly)
Counter flowers are what Ive been calling anti-spin flowers before all the anti-spin jargon started. You can call them what you want, but in this case, they're counter flowers
They're the ones where your arms rotate opposite (or counter) the direction your poi are spinning (ie your poi are rotating forward chase/your arms are rotating reverse chase; and your poi are rotating forward butterfly while your arms are rotating reverse butterfly)Goofy is the term Ive come up with to describe flowers where your arms are doing the wrong directional pattern for the way the poi are spinning (ie your poi are doing butterfly but your arms are rotating chase, and vice verce). This forces one poi to always be doing counter spin while the other always does normal.
Half flowers are where your arms only complete half a rotation before going back the way they came forcing the poi to do normal spin one way, then counter spin on the way back.
All of these can be done as a chase or as a butterfly, in split or same time. Its also great to be able to turn all of these 360 and some of them are actually easier that way.
Anyway, gimme some feedback, especially if you have some flower ideas I havent yet thought of.
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NYC
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Posted:
Noooo... it's just a spirograph equation.
If it takes one second for your poi to spin around and you take 4 deconds to rotate your arms all the way, you'll get a 4 petaled flower.
If you're spinning at one rep per second and your arms take a minute to go around, you'll get a 60 petaled flower.
If you're spinning at one rep per second and your arms take a second to go around... then you've made a large circle.
Noooo... it's just a spirograph equation.
If it takes one second for your poi to spin around and you take 4 deconds to rotate your arms all the way, you'll get a 4 petaled flower.
If you're spinning at one rep per second and your arms take a minute to go around, you'll get a 60 petaled flower.
If you're spinning at one rep per second and your arms take a second to go around... then you've made a large circle.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Posted:
Umm... NYC; I think you're missing the point of what I'm getting at.
You'not just got one spirograph; you've got two. In my last example... heck, I'll just repeat what I said earlier with a fwe minor mods:
Your right poi could make circles at 12, 4, and 8, and if your arms were 180 degrees apart, your left arm could make circles at 6, 10 and 2, giving you six petals instead of three; each poi doing three petals, but appearing as six if you overlaid the two patterns... which they would be, providing your arms are both still attached to your body...
Umm... NYC; I think you're missing the point of what I'm getting at.
You'not just got one spirograph; you've got two. In my last example... heck, I'll just repeat what I said earlier with a fwe minor mods:
Your right poi could make circles at 12, 4, and 8, and if your arms were 180 degrees apart, your left arm could make circles at 6, 10 and 2, giving you six petals instead of three; each poi doing three petals, but appearing as six if you overlaid the two patterns... which they would be, providing your arms are both still attached to your body...
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NYC
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Posted:
There are easy ways to get your poi to make 3 circles antispin and still have them synched. If you just spin parallel you can make any number of petals you want.
You're using the overlay of the location of the small and larger circles on a physical background.
I'm using the difference in the timing of the smaller and larger circles.
It's the same thing.
If you spin your poi at 3 times the speed you spin your arm, then you get three circles. At, let's say 12, 4, and 8. If you spin antispin you just loose one small circle for every large circle you make. You can have antispin flowers with 48 petals if you wanted to and still have your arms at 180 degrees.
Written by: Gav486
So... are your small circles desynchronised (like Kael) or are you spinning with your arms 120 degrees apart? Or are you getting six petals ( with the petals made by one poi landing in between the ones made by the other, which might actually be a neat move in its own right)?
There are easy ways to get your poi to make 3 circles antispin and still have them synched. If you just spin parallel you can make any number of petals you want.
You're using the overlay of the location of the small and larger circles on a physical background.
I'm using the difference in the timing of the smaller and larger circles.
It's the same thing.
If you spin your poi at 3 times the speed you spin your arm, then you get three circles. At, let's say 12, 4, and 8. If you spin antispin you just loose one small circle for every large circle you make. You can have antispin flowers with 48 petals if you wanted to and still have your arms at 180 degrees.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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NYC
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Posted:
... wait what?
I think I get what you're getting at Gav and I agree but I didn't understand how/why you were suggesting that there was no way that Garthy's arms could be at 180 degrees.
Now I'm all confused.
I'll reneg all I said on the topic if someone tells me what we're talking about.
This is what I get for not drinking enough alcohol during the weekends.
... wait what?
I think I get what you're getting at Gav and I agree but I didn't understand how/why you were suggesting that there was no way that Garthy's arms could be at 180 degrees.
Now I'm all confused.
I'll reneg all I said on the topic if someone tells me what we're talking about.
This is what I get for not drinking enough alcohol during the weekends.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Posted:
Gav is right - if you do 3 circles with your arms apart you'll end up with circles at
L 12 R 6
L 4 R 10
L 8 R 2
as you go round - 6 petals. To get just 3 petals you'd need to have your arms 120 degrees apart to get
L 12 R 4
L 4 R 8
L 8 R 12
Gav is right - if you do 3 circles with your arms apart you'll end up with circles at
L 12 R 6
L 4 R 10
L 8 R 2
as you go round - 6 petals. To get just 3 petals you'd need to have your arms 120 degrees apart to get
L 12 R 4
L 4 R 8
L 8 R 12
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Posted:
S'ok, NYC
Kael alreay explained how he did flowers with odd numbered petals; by desychronising the inward swings. I'd already alluded to that in my previous post:
And I even thanked him for clarifying that.
I was just asking Garthy if he did his three petal flowers the same way. I never actually said that he couldn't possibly have his arms 180 degrees apart; Kael had already put paid to that idea.
And thanx Spiralx! Glad someone knows what I'm on about.. *phew*
S'ok, NYC
Kael alreay explained how he did flowers with odd numbered petals; by desychronising the inward swings. I'd already alluded to that in my previous post:
Written by: Gav486
Unless, of course your poi rotations aren't synchronised...
Yeah... Kael; that point where the poi are pointing towards you... is it happening at the same time for both poi or not?
And I even thanked him for clarifying that.
I was just asking Garthy if he did his three petal flowers the same way. I never actually said that he couldn't possibly have his arms 180 degrees apart; Kael had already put paid to that idea.
And thanx Spiralx! Glad someone knows what I'm on about.. *phew*
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
Thanks Kael,,,sometimes I just need a little assurance that antispin does indeed look different to an observer, rather than just being a more difficult way of creating a pattern that I already do.
Now to work on this rotating your arms at different rates thing....
Thanks Kael,,,sometimes I just need a little assurance that antispin does indeed look different to an observer, rather than just being a more difficult way of creating a pattern that I already do.
Now to work on this rotating your arms at different rates thing....
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Posted:
Hmm...
Sorry. I ment 3 petals per arm! so 6 in all!
Sorry for the confusion!
I've knocked up a little Script yesterday that Draws Flowers given various parameters.
I've put some photos up in my gallery...... The lines are the arms and poi. I'll clean it up a bit and add an interface to if when I'm back from falmouth so you can vary stuff and see what it looks like!
At the moment you have to edit code.
Of course these could be wrong as my maths is shaky!
Hmm...
Sorry. I ment 3 petals per arm! so 6 in all!
Sorry for the confusion!
I've knocked up a little Script yesterday that Draws Flowers given various parameters.
I've put some photos up in my gallery...... The lines are the arms and poi. I'll clean it up a bit and add an interface to if when I'm back from falmouth so you can vary stuff and see what it looks like!
At the moment you have to edit code.
Of course these could be wrong as my maths is shaky!
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Posted:
this explains it well.
yay
Written by: spiralx
Gav is right - if you do 3 circles with your arms apart you'll end up with circles at
L 12 R 6
L 4 R 10
L 8 R 2
as you go round - 6 petals. To get just 3 petals you'd need to have your arms 120 degrees apart to get
L 12 R 4
L 4 R 8
L 8 R 12
this explains it well.
yay
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Posted:
**Damn it Garthy stop talking about flowers***
An animated classic flower with lock outs.
https://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3528&nocache=1
To stir things up a bit........
The antispin flower in KaelGotRice picture doesn't have lockouts? Discuss!
I'll post an animated picture of a antispin flower with and without lockouts and see what you think?
[EDIT:]
here she is
https://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showpho...=500&page=1
EDITED_BY: garthy (1113167792)
**Damn it Garthy stop talking about flowers***
An animated classic flower with lock outs.
https://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3528&nocache=1
To stir things up a bit........
The antispin flower in KaelGotRice picture doesn't have lockouts? Discuss!
I'll post an animated picture of a antispin flower with and without lockouts and see what you think?
[EDIT:]
here she is
https://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showpho...=500&page=1
EDITED_BY: garthy (1113167792)
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
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Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
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Posted:
So that's antispin without lockouts, what about with?
This is really a very helpful visualization, so thank you for it.
So that's antispin without lockouts, what about with?
This is really a very helpful visualization, so thank you for it.
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
Those graphics are amazing,,I always wondered what lockouts were, Thanks
Those graphics are amazing,,I always wondered what lockouts were, Thanks
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
Those lockouts are sorta like the linear isolations I posted about... Though, Id like to see someone who can actually pull that anti-spin flower with lockouts off... Seems like its one of those things thats possible, but not likely.
Those lockouts are sorta like the linear isolations I posted about... Though, Id like to see someone who can actually pull that anti-spin flower with lockouts off... Seems like its one of those things thats possible, but not likely.
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Posted:
*agrees with icon*
that antispin flower with lockout has lots of hardcore isolation needed in between the lockouts.
i think lockouts just 'feel' like lockouts but aren't really ever there.
if you see what i mean.
cole. x
*agrees with icon*
that antispin flower with lockout has lots of hardcore isolation needed in between the lockouts.
i think lockouts just 'feel' like lockouts but aren't really ever there.
if you see what i mean.
cole. x
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Posted:
when you're doing antispin flowers, the poi don't pull on your arms in the normal, comfortable way (centripetal/fugal/whatever) so they feel a bit weird. (with the aid of a spirograph i have sussed why this is)
but is it easier or harder, therefore, to do four or six beat antispin flowers? with four, they seem to move a bit fast for my liking...
when you're doing antispin flowers, the poi don't pull on your arms in the normal, comfortable way (centripetal/fugal/whatever) so they feel a bit weird. (with the aid of a spirograph i have sussed why this is
)but is it easier or harder, therefore, to do four or six beat antispin flowers? with four, they seem to move a bit fast for my liking...
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Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
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Posted:
errrr... I don't know about you guys but when I started learning flowers I had lockouts or pauses, but I don't anymore now that I've smoothed them up. Therefore...
errrr... I don't know about you guys but when I started learning flowers I had lockouts or pauses, but I don't anymore now that I've smoothed them up. Therefore...
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
WOW that's some cool stuff. garthy's my hero for this week. the things we can do with an army of nerds...
i can do the anti-lockouts one but getting the straight line/ends of the semicircles joint to be all sharp like that is a biotch. gimmie a few months maybe
naaaah i like girls too much
WOW that's some cool stuff. garthy's my hero for this week. the things we can do with an army of nerds...
i can do the anti-lockouts one but getting the straight line/ends of the semicircles joint to be all sharp like that is a biotch. gimmie a few months maybe
naaaah i like girls too much
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Posted:
hmmm....i'm confused. i thought that by definition, flowers required lockouts. what are you doing if you're doing them without lockouts???
hmmm....i'm confused. i thought that by definition, flowers required lockouts. what are you doing if you're doing them without lockouts???
taken out of context i must seem so strange
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Posted:
Timing them?
The poi heads are going a certain speed and your arms and poi need to be in a certain place at a certain time. The issue with antispin is getting used to how gravity throws your spin out and using your wrists to account for that, while defying physics naturally.
Flowers without lockouts look so much cleaner IMO.
Timing them?
The poi heads are going a certain speed and your arms and poi need to be in a certain place at a certain time. The issue with antispin is getting used to how gravity throws your spin out and using your wrists to account for that, while defying physics naturally.
Flowers without lockouts look so much cleaner IMO.
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Posted:
OK play with this
Flower drawing program......
https://cranbrookroad.homeip.net/pyflower.zip
Hit reset button after playing with parameters of poi..
Lockouts are broken. I need to change the way I spin the poi and arms. They work with divisable numbers. for poi and arms. They only work at 90 degrees to!
TODO:
* Saving Animated gifs. (I did have this working but it needs improving
* Save flower parameters
* Sort out lockouts. This involves changing the way I calc stuff.
* Ideas anyone?
If it doesn't work run from a command prompt and PM me the output.....
OK play with this
Flower drawing program......
https://cranbrookroad.homeip.net/pyflower.zip
Hit reset button after playing with parameters of poi..
Lockouts are broken. I need to change the way I spin the poi and arms. They work with divisable numbers. for poi and arms. They only work at 90 degrees to!
TODO:
* Saving Animated gifs. (I did have this working but it needs improving
* Save flower parameters
* Sort out lockouts. This involves changing the way I calc stuff.
* Ideas anyone?
If it doesn't work run from a command prompt and PM me the output.....
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Things to try...
(Remember to hit reset after settnig this up)
Both arms +10
Both poi -5
Lockouts enabled
Both arms +3
Both poi -9
Lockouts enabled
Red arm 3
Red poi 3
Blue Arm 3
Bue poi -5
Lockout disabled
Red arm 3
Red poi 3
Blue Arm 3
Bue poi -5
Lockout enabled
Then go off and try to spin these!
Things to try...
(Remember to hit reset after settnig this up)
Both arms +10
Both poi -5
Lockouts enabled
Both arms +3
Both poi -9
Lockouts enabled
Red arm 3
Red poi 3
Blue Arm 3
Bue poi -5
Lockout disabled
Red arm 3
Red poi 3
Blue Arm 3
Bue poi -5
Lockout enabled
Then go off and try to spin these!
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
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Posted:
Non-Https Image Link
Practical application of flowers and turns.
Non-Https Image Link
Practical application of flowers and turns.
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NYC
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Posted:
This thread is unacceptably helpful.
How will you guys ever maintain a level of elitism if you keep showing guys like me how to do things.
This thread is unacceptably helpful.
How will you guys ever maintain a level of elitism if you keep showing guys like me how to do things.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Maybe we should add more words like crypto fascist, Anti - deconstructism - progression.
I meen where are the cryptic threads I had to learn off like the classic..
[Old link] 
Written by: NYC
This thread is unacceptably helpful.
How will you guys ever maintain a level of elitism if you keep showing guys like me how to do things.
Maybe we should add more words like crypto fascist, Anti - deconstructism - progression.
I meen where are the cryptic threads I had to learn off like the classic..
[Old link]
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garthy you are a genius and I can't unjumble a word you are saying any more. I thought i understood..............
oh how wrong I was. how utterly wrong. Ah well.
*skips off to practice a 3 beat weave.........*
garthy you are a genius and I can't unjumble a word you are saying any more. I thought i understood..............
oh how wrong I was. how utterly wrong. Ah well.
*skips off to practice a 3 beat weave.........*
Geologists do it in the dirt................ 
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So, on a simple level.....
Spin your poi, then wave your arms around like a loon and eventually you'll come across a flower variation of some sort, is that how it works, or do I need to rethink my plan??
So, on a simple level.....
Spin your poi, then wave your arms around like a loon and eventually you'll come across a flower variation of some sort, is that how it works, or do I need to rethink my plan??
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I've downloaded that and ended up with a zip file with a whole bunch of stuff I don't know what to do with......... and for some reason my unzipping thing is all odd.......... I swear this computer has gremlins and faeries in it!
I've downloaded that and ended up with a zip file with a whole bunch of stuff I don't know what to do with......... and for some reason my unzipping thing is all odd.......... I swear this computer has gremlins and faeries in it!
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That's been my plan. I have the loon part down pretty well. The problem is the eventually part starts looking like 100 monkeys with 100 typewriters....trying to spin poi.....
Written by: Bird
So, on a simple level.....
Spin your poi, then wave your arms around like a loon and eventually you'll come across a flower variation of some sort, is that how it works, or do I need to rethink my plan??
That's been my plan. I have the loon part down pretty well. The problem is the eventually part starts looking like 100 monkeys with 100 typewriters....trying to spin poi.....
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Posted:
Yeap. That's about it. The secret is not hitting yourself and looking like you know what you're doing.
And it;s so much fun!!! 
Written by: Bird
So, on a simple level.....
Spin your poi, then wave your arms around like a loon and eventually you'll come across a flower variation of some sort, is that how it works, or do I need to rethink my plan??
Yeap. That's about it. The secret is not hitting yourself and looking like you know what you're doing.
And it;s so much fun!!!
"**grumble*spuriouswindmills*grumble**" - Coleman
"if poi was only for girls there wouldnt be many good poi spinners...." - Nx
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Hmmm.. Betterer instrutions would have been good I supose.
Unzip it to a directory and run the exe called flowerpoi.exe
Written by: Skulduggery
I've downloaded that and ended up with a zip file with a whole bunch of stuff I don't know what to do with......... and for some reason my unzipping thing is all odd.......... I swear this computer has gremlins and faeries in it!
Hmmm.. Betterer instrutions would have been good I supose.
Unzip it to a directory and run the exe called flowerpoi.exe
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