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Author Topic: Any difficulty in doing knots?  (Read 10842 times)

Giampy

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Any difficulty in doing knots?
« on: May 17, 2015, 03:08 AM »

Any difficulty in doing knots? Don't worry:

http://www.animatedknots.com

And/or search for "animated knots" in Google Video.


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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2015, 04:11 AM »
Wasnt sure from the homepage why you posted that - but when you get to the actual knot pages it is very impressive:
they arent gifs, but it cycles through the steps of the knot -
you can vary the speed, you can invert, mirror, or rotate the whole set of images. Very well done :up:

Screenshot - 2015-05-17 , 11_00_53.png
(the overhand knot)

Essential knots
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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2015, 06:10 AM »
Nice! I was just thinking recently that it would be nice to learn a few basic knots.  :up:

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2015, 08:44 AM »
Nice! I was just thinking recently that it would be nice to learn a few basic knots.  :up:
Why knot ?
 

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2015, 11:04 AM »
Nice! I was just thinking recently that it would be nice to learn a few basic knots.  :up:

Better to be safe than knot...

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2015, 11:23 AM »
Until I saw the puns I feared this thread would be for naught.


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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2015, 09:30 PM »

Until I saw the puns I feared this thread would be for naught.



Puns, what puns? This may come as noose to you but according to the panel you made a slip.
 

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2015, 01:09 AM »
Puns, what puns? This may come as noose to you but according to the panel you made a slip.
-cranioscopical (May 17, 2015, 09:30 PM)

you wood say that.  clearly you're not tongue tied

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2015, 02:30 AM »
Thanks for the website, Giampy.

The images are so clear and simple that understanding a knot is knot a problem.
It will help my son to learn and tie his own tie next time.

Regards,

Anand
« Last Edit: May 18, 2015, 05:59 AM by anandcoral »

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2015, 05:29 AM »
Puns, what puns? This may come as noose to you but according to the panel you made a slip.
-cranioscopical (May 17, 2015, 09:30 PM)

Well I'm no Boy Scout nor am I Richard Kimble.  Speaking of which a video of The One Armed Man(tm) tying knots might be interesting.  :)

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2015, 03:22 PM »
Um... wat?

I'm having a hard time following this one:

Step 2:

Knot Step 2.png

Step 3:

Knot Step 3.png

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2015, 03:52 PM »
It's probably a compound knot.  That just looks like a double-line hitch.  It would be nice if they told you "hey- tie a double line hitch right here- see here for instructions." or something similar.

Update: It's a Figure-Eight Loop: http://www.southee.c....htm#FigureEightLoop

Notice that on a karash double loop they do the same thing- but direct you to the Figure-Eight Loop to tie that part: http://www.southee.c...nots_DoubleLoops.htm
« Last Edit: May 18, 2015, 04:02 PM by wraith808 »

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2015, 04:00 PM »
It's probably a compound knot.  That just looks like a double-line hitch.  It would be nice if they told you "hey- tie a double line hitch right here- see here for instructions." or something similar.

Yeah, those pics are kind of like step by step instructions for painting the Mona Lisa.  Step 1 blank canvas.  Step 2 portrait complete paint dry.  :)

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2015, 05:01 PM »
Um... wat?

I'm having a hard time following this one:

ah yeah, that does sort of jump from zero to 100 ;D

That's a knot that's used for climbing with rope and harness/belt (also with a carabiner).
I had a brief spell attempting to climb walls with a friend - I did learn that knot, but dont know if I could reproduce it now.**
The video doesnt help any - I wonder is that knot described elsewhere and they forgot to let us know about it.

** It is very important that the two strands dont 'overlap' each other. I *think* that's what they're trying to say in the last image ["Wrong"]: "a kink in the standing end is an error" - but I couldnt be sure there (standing end? - I never did learn the 'knots' vocabulary...)
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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2015, 02:33 AM »
a video of The One Armed Man(tm) tying knots might be interesting
It seems armless enough to me.
 

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Re: Any difficulty in doing knots?
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2015, 05:58 AM »
a video of The One Armed Man(tm) tying knots might be interesting
It seems armless enough to me.
 

-cranioscopical (May 19, 2015, 02:33 AM)

I guess you could say the villain single-handedly kept the audience tied to their TV sets.