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Hi All,

What terms, acronyms, and definitions would you put in a glossary for chainmaille?

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The Chainmaillers.com Team

 

[Karpeth]

Cell
Ring
Ring substitution (As in Nested/Scaled, Stacked/Kinged, Möbi, et.c...)
AR
"Protoweave" or another term catching the concept
Chain
Band
Sheet
(3D Tesselation) (As in Pentagonal tesselation - dodecahedra)
(3D Weave) (As in J4-1)
Schäfli symbols
Tesselation
AE
TE
SE
Orbital
Reinforced
Captive

And much more

 

[Karpeth]

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Cell
Ring
Ring substitution (As in Nested/Scaled, Stacked/Kinged, Möbi, et.c...)
AR
"Protoweave" or another term catching the concept
Chain
Band
Sheet
(3D Tesselation) (As in Pentagonal tesselation - dodecahedra)
(3D Weave) (As in J4-1)
Schäfli symbols
Tesselation
AE
TE
SE
Orbital
Reinforced
Captive
Weave
Design
Variation

And much more

Oh, it said definitions as well.

Cell:
Smallest repeatable ring cluster, mostly used where such a ring cluster does not intersect the adjecent SRRC.

ring:
Solid torus or an object with the same properties within chainmaille.

RS:
non-ring object or cluster, which could generally be mathematically be approximated as a single torus, and therefore substitute a single ring, such as using a ring with an AR of 2 more than another ring, nesting the two together.

AR:
The relation between the minor and adjusted major radius; that is Wire and Inner diameter.

Weave:
stable Infinitely repeating pattern of rings, where the all rings meaningfully contribute to the pattern so that removing one ring drastically changes the properties.

"Protoweave":
Nonstable Infinitely repeating pattern of rings, where the all rings meaningfully contribute to the pattern so that removing one ring drastically changes the properties.

Chain:
Infinitely repeating pattern [...], extending in only 1 dimension. Usually "feels like" "cylinder".

Band:
Infinitely repeating pattern [...], extending in only 1 dimension. Usually "feels like" "flattened cylinder"

Sheet:
Infinitely repeating pattern [...], extending in only 2 dimensions.

"3Da"
Infinitely repeating pattern [...], extending in only 3 dimensions.

"3Db"
Finitely repeating pattern, wrapping around in 3 dimensions.

Tesselation:
Repeating patterns of rings, cells, or clusters of cells, where approximating mentioned objects as other geometric shapes describes the tiling of a plane. For 2 dimensions, only 3 reductions are relevant, that of square tiling, hexagonal tiling and triangular tiling. It should be noted that rings, cells or clusters of cells can in part or in whole participate in different reductions to approximated shapes.

Schläfli symbols:
Systematic description of shapes and tesselation.
{} encloses a series of numbers, separated by commas, where the first number is the number of corners of the base polygon, the second number is the number of such polygons intersecting in a vertex, and the third number the number, in 3d, the number of polyhedra joinging along an edge. Letter prefixes change the properties, but within Maille, we can reduce such properties away, since we already need to aproximate toroidal rings as triangles, squares or hexagons and more.

Eye:
Interaction where rings overlaping produce an intersection where a ring can pass through.

TE:
Through-Eye- Interaction where a ring passes through the intersection of two other rings.


AE:
Around-Eye. Interaction, where a ring passes through two rings, not passing through the intersection of the two rings mentioned above.

SE:
Spiral Eye. Subset of Eye, where the two rings are joined together.

Orbital:
Interaction where a ring is held in place outside of a ring cluster without intersecting any of those rings.

Captive:
Interaction where a ring is held in place inside of a ring cluster without intersecting any of those rings.

Reinforced:
Interaction where a ring is held in place inside of a ring cluster intersecting those rings, not being the major contributor to the geometric properties in a perfect environment. (?)