Squashed Atomic Tangle Theory!

I've been thinking about tangles alot recently and thought I'd share some of my thoughts
First I think I may need to clarify my ways of thinking about some stuff.
When I say tangle I just mean the poi bodies are linked in some way... not in any specific way! Could be an airwrap, a hyperloop or anything like that. :twisted:
When I call something 'atomic' I mean the poi are spinning about an approximately similar central point but with axis at 90 degrees to each other.
When I say something is 'butterfly' I mean the poi are spinning in opposite directions with an approximate common axis
When I say something is 'chase' I mean the poi are spinning in the same direction with an approximate common axis.

That might help. If you can't see it try either right-clicking and 'show picture' or click HERE

Now, some of the brighter among you may have noticed that the butterfly above is actually the atom with the planes brought more vertical, and the chase (in this instance a corkscrew) is the atom with the planes brought more horizontal.

And so we get to tangles. It has occured to me that to enter a tangle the planes of each poi cannot be parallel or they will just miss each other, they must be angled to one another and intersecting in some way.

This one from garthy is quite similar to the ones I have been playing with, so it may give you an idea where I'm coming from.

My point is when you enter the tangle you need to swing the poi into each other and at this moment you can no longer be spinning a perfect butterfly, it must have it's planes at least slightly angled to one-another as in fig A above
Now if you exagerate this angling of the plans you start to enter the tangle from an atom, as in fig B, an atomic tangle!
If you twist the planes even more you end up entering with both poi going in the same direction as in fig C. a chase tangle. :22
Everything about the way the poi heads move in, out, through and round your arms and the poi bodies remains the same, it is essentialy the same tangle that garthy shows but you enter it from a corkscrew type thing rather than a butterfly.

Which leads me to think that alot of tangles (if not all) are essentially atomic, in that they have a basic form that enters from an atomic situation, but they can be squashed one way to enter from butterfly moves or the other way to be entered from chase moves. obvously different tangles may resolve easier one way than the other but I think in theory every tangle may be possible to do in chase atomic or butterfly variations.

In theory you can take the tangle you end up with in the above example and turn it 90 degrees to enter it like a normal buzzsaw hyperloop, but the difficulty is in dodging your hands through the paths of the poi without having gravity to bounce them against 8O
...I'm working on it
Likewise it should be possible to enter a basic buzzsaw tangle from an atom (which I sometimes do by mistake... ) or from a butterfly!

Well that's my Squashed Atomic Tangle Theory!
I hope that made sense to someone other than me. I'm sure I had more ways to explain it but they escape me now.

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