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How are more people not obsessed with knots? It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties. The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery yo…
It seems to be a nice, handmade, thoughtful collection. Things like being able to flip the images is a nice touch. However, name "animated" will only lead to disappointment for people finding slide shows of humans. This is basically the same kind of that a Boy Scout handbook provides.
I looked up truckers hitch. It’s a slide show, even on YouTube. I learned that knot differently, and wonder if mine has a different name.
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I looked up truckers hitch. It’s a slide show, even on YouTube. I learned that knot differently, and wonder if mine has a different name.
I think "Trucker's Hitch" refers generally to any setup where you tie a midline loop, then use it like a pulley and tie off the free end. There are several different ways of doing the loop knot and the ending knot, with their own names on their own, but Trucker's Hitch refers to the overall setup.
To anyone into knots, I recommend Knots 3D on Android. It is really handy because most people keeps the phone with them all the time. Beautiful and well maintained app. It's not overwhelming, in the sense that it doesn't try to add every existing knot in the same database, it has usage, which gives context, history and specially related knots, which makes it possible to compare different related knots that are usuall…
https://archive.org/details/TheAshleyBookOfKnots
What's missing from linear serialization of a book format like ABOK and this website is metadata tags that indicate each knot's attribute(s), i.e., bight, open, slip, etc. and an ability to browse and filter by such tag(s).
Most knot enthusiasts will already know about it, but in the analog world The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic. Beautifully illustrated; the author, Clifford Ashley, was a marine painter and spent decades documenting almost 4,000 knots.
I've got the Android app and love it, as well as Knots 3D. Most knot enthusiasts will already know about it, but in the analog world The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic. Beautifully illustrated; the author, Clifford Ashley, was a marine painter and spent decades documenting almost 4,000 knots.
Yup. Referring to knots by their ABoK numbers is also more practical than by their wildly varying names.
If you want to learn just one new, very convenient knot, which can be used in many situations, I recommend the Bowline [2].