Introduction to the 'Encyclopoidia Omnimodus'

Glad you like the idea.

The difference between this and the tutorials is that the Encyclopoidia will tell you WHAT something IS.

Then link to the tutorials to find out HOW to do it.

Can definitely interlink the terms from US slang and UK slang, be great to have other languages too.

All the glostring names, plus rope dart terms or chain whips.

The possibillities are endless, and it is indeed a massive task. But I think the Act of making such a resource will clarify things in all our minds.

This is not something I can do alone, we're all gonna have to work together.

So let's get the ball rolling, I need 2 descriptions ~ one for Weave and one for Butterflies.

If anyone calls these by a different name then speak now and we'll interlink them.

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Now you can have a split time or in time butterfly but can you have an in time weave???

Certainly 2 very important factors for describing a pattern are the timing and spinning the poi in same (weave) or opposite (butterfly) directions.

Also does anyone have any good terms for split time and in time, they are just way too long winded.

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Rovo:

It's definitely gonna take a lot more poiple than just me to put all the text into the encyclopoidia ~ lets call it the Poidia for short.

But then if anyone can write in it then we'll have exactly the same problem we have now, it will be a complete mess.

So what I ws thinking was this. How about we find 7 poiple who are dedicated to the idea of creating the Poidia.

I can allow them certain privalages on the site which will allow any one of them to update the information.

Then those 7 poiple will have to decide on the fundmental principles of the notation ~ with help from everyone else of course.

Everyone votes on terms and once we are happy we add them in.

That way we should have a fine end result.

How does that sound?

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Wouldn't like to say 7 is the absolute max. I seem to remember spiralx talking aout how to do 9 beats without wrapping but that seemed to involve a kind of turn without moving your feet so whether or not it was strictly a 9 beat weave i dunno, i don't do 7W's either.

Whenever i've thought some aspect of poi to be impossible, I've always been glad when proven wrong

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Yeap, I agree, if I spoon feed poiple then they will always need to be spoon fed. If I provide poiple with video clips then they can see what is possible. I generally find things much easier to learn once I know that somethings possible.

The Act of working things out for yourself is extremely important and will allow you to develop and discover new things.

I would say that the poiple on Hop are mostly there for social reasons, which is great, but a slightly different group from what i would like here. Pip is run by some of the best performers I know and the quality of information is top notch.

As for spherculism, well I've certainly met some fascinating poiple here. I love to hear about some of the younger members learning crazy patterns, especially the throws ~ they are kinda the highlight of the site for me ~ both the throws and the kids learning them

When I released all this knowledge onto the web I was dubious bout how poiple would react. I mean, it's fantastic for newbies 'cos it raises the game. You know, sets this level of spinning as the standard to aim for. However, I'm not certain about how the 'jedi-like' poiple feel about it all though. I mean, I'm giving away lots of the little secrets that poiple have been developing for years ~ also anyone writing a book or producing a tutorial video is gonna have to 'step it up' a notch, now that all this information is out there for free.

As for the number of members. I'm so surprised (and delighted) by the huge number of members we have here. I pushed loads up until we had a 100 members and then just allowed it to spread. Today I see that we've just passed 300 members ~ how good is that ~ that's a 100 members per month.

So I think that's why spherculism is full of 'enthusiastic newbies'. Give me 3 years of your time and you will all be 'enthusiastic jedi-likes'. Then you can teach me.

This is just the tip of the iceburg for spherculism.

Thank you all for posting, you'll find your reward,

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So I've posted loads of topics about Defining Poi Terms for the Poidia.

I've left the definition blank so I don't influence the definitions at an early stage. I want to see how You define them.

I figure if everyone writes what they think the definition should be then eventually a quite elegant definition will emerge.

By being disciplined in our terminology we should find that more difficult concepts are easier to grasp.

Well done to spiralx and faery for getting straight in there with some good definitions.

If you think of another term then add it in the same format i have used.

I love it already.

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Well, I'm simply amazed at the quantity and quality of poi definitions that we've all come up with in the last 24 hours. Seems that if we all work together the Poidia will be up to a high standard in no time.

And actually there aren't that many terms to define. I was talking with a friend of mine and he was explaining how something like 150 words make up like 50% of the english spoken language. And maybe 600 words made up 95%. So the numbers are wrong but it was something equally rediculous.

It got me thinking that there aren't that many different terms that we need to define, like maybe 1 or 2 each. Suddenly it doesn't feel so difficult.

As for user input and all that. Someone need to find a good Encyclopedia Module for Php-Nuke. The default one sucks, I'll have a look but if anyone knows a good one then gimme a link.

Try to have a look at other poiples definitions and decide how what they think can be applied to what you think, we need to find some common ground on which to settle. Also look for patterns in different definitions, try to look for some kind of underlying structure that we can build upon.

As seems to be the way with spherculism, it's all going far better than I could have ever imagined, thank you all for your input.

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Okay poiple. Let me first say that I'm blown away by the quality and quantity of work which we have all put into the poidia so far. It has taught me a load already.

So I'm thinking that there are quite a few definitions that we have settled upon. What we all need to do now is read back through the posts and come to one final definition

Type it in blue with a Large font

Make certain that the definition contains as much of the desired meaning as possible.

Once someone has done that if you agree with them vote :6

if you disagree then type your big blue description, when everyone has totally agreed then if someone can type up a big RED description then i'll copy it to the first post and change the name of the thread to DEFINED.

That sound fair????

Any questions???

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fuggin initiates :53