Back again. For me the holiday vacation has been a busy time--not much time for messing around. I'll try to get caught up with Daniel now. ... easyly - so...
My daughter has developed a great interest in this craft. She wishes to know how to do the Eiffel Tower, and so I would love to find a guide or instructions...
Ann Akers Johnson's book "Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Figures" contains instructions for the Eiffel Tower. You should be able to get it on Amazon. Gillian ...
hello all i was manipulating "many stars" and i came up whit this cat "look a like"-figure here it is "cat" first 4 moves are same as in "many stars" 1 OA 2 T...
Hi, For those following the prose description step 6 is to navajo the forefingers. It seems to take some teasing to get the final figure of the cat's head to...
Hi, At World Wide Webs Darcie shows a figure like Jacob's Ladder but with six diamonds called Six Eyes from Sierra Leon. Unfortunately his description leaves...
Hello everyone. Discovered this group late last night after trolling yahoo groups on another matter. Taken a quick peek at the postings. Susprised that nothing...
Welcome Greg, Just want to point you to another group with broader interests: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/ One member is developing a computer...
Thanks Eric Am now a member of that group. Have taken taken a very very quick look see. Have posted my availability to that group. Glad to see subject taken...
Hi everyone, I'm wondering if there are any string enthusiasts in this group, from New Zealand?? I'm making a doco on MAHI WHAI..... would love to hear from...
greetings from finland I haven´t seen many post on this list, so here is my try... First i wan´t to thank Eric Lee for the beatifull and informative ...
Hi All, I'm a newbie round here, so please forgive my presumption, but I've written a little paper on notation, which I humbly present to the group. It (and ...
Greetings! I just joined tonight and am so happy this group exists! I am organizing a low-key, affordable gathering for string enthusiasts in San Francisco...
Kia ora and greetings, I live in New Zealand and love string games! I am hoping to hear from anyone who lives in Hawaii and that does traditional hei (string...
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Jamis Buck
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Jul 3, 2009 5:03 am
I'm pretty new to string figures (just started playing with a string about two weeks ago), but I've been going through CFJ's book rather religiously :) and...
I'm at work and will have more later, but wanted to point to: http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Public-Domain-Book-Project There is a PDF version free to download...
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Jamis Buck
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Jul 5, 2009 10:53 pm
Thanks for pointing that out, Eric. Sadly, that "PDF" is a PDF only in the most technical sense; each page is simply an image of a scanned page from the book,...
Yes, OCR. What are you using? There is also a .djvu version and I'm thinking it could be converted in one go. The end result would have to be edited, but...
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Jamis Buck
jamis@...
Jul 6, 2009 4:08 am
Yeah, I'm actually using the djvu version, since djview lets you export the pages as separate tiffs, which I then feed into the OCR app (using tesseract, a...
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Jamis Buck
jamis@...
Jul 7, 2009 2:07 pm
Alright, I finished transcribing chapter 4 last night, and I sat down this morning and polished off the script that generates the HTML pages for it. If you...
So far I’ve come up with the following: Two Elks (Klamath Indian) 1. OA 2. T mo FN mu nLS pu fLS (F may lift nLS to assist) 3. FM md-th tTN ht bnTS; MF...
Excellent, thank-you Eric. It helps a lot to compare your version with mine, and see where I was trying too hard for brevity. :) May I have your permission to...
Castle Door I was doing random stuff and came up with a string figure to contribute here: 1 FMR pu SN 2 rFT ht ld S mo lH md lP:lFT ht rd S mo rH md rP 3 OA:T...
Sorry--I wrote a few lines introducing myself, but they were accidentally dropped. My name is Mark. I'm posting on behalf of my son Nicholas, age 11, who...
Solo Cat's Cradle: Shorthand instructions to do "Cats Cradle" all by yourself (up to cat's eye: 1 OA with M: cradle 2 turn P toward you 3 FMRL mu nTS ls 4 HN...
