Happy Clappy

#VidADay. Short vid from Feb 2011 of a #juggling trick I thought up. The site swap is 900, and there’s a clap in between every throw and every catch. It’s surprisingly hard. Somewhere in the depths […]

https://tlmb.net/blog/happy-clappy/
#Altern8 #balls #jtv #juggling #SiteSwap #VidADay

It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..

Any help spreading the word across all the strange pattern-obsessed communities much appreciated!

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Algorithmic Pattern is a new festival and conference for people curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making, across algorithmic music, arts and craft. The first edition will take place both in Sheffield UK and online, during September 2025.
The call for talks/papers is now open, deadline 2nd June - please see our website for details: https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/
#textiles #weaving #algorave #livecoding #algorithmicart #cfp #conference #patterns #pattern #craft #juggling #siteswap #origami #geometry #ethnomathmatics #choreography

423 with asynchronous active 2s in front of Saint Ansgar Church in Odense :)

@juggling
#juggling #odense #circus #siteswap

One way to make a valid #siteswap description of a #juggling trick is to take any permutation of 1,…,n, and element-wise subtract the identity permutation from it, mod n.

E.g. (2,4,3,5,1) − (1,2,3,4,5) = (1,2,0,1,−4) ≡ (1,2,0,1,1) ≡ (1,2,5,1,6)

Siteswaps can be cyclically permuted, giving a fun consequence:

Take any n×n Latin square, and subtract the canonical cyclic Latin square, mod n. This always gives a "juggler's word square": a matrix in which each row and column is a valid siteswap!

I'm enjoying juggling clubs at the moment and I'm getting some improvement on doing 423 with active 2's :))

I throw the 2 synchronous with the 4, I'm not really sure how to make it asynchronous 🤔

@juggling
#juggling #siteswap

Any #jugglers going to #emfcamp might like to know that the Siteswaphone #juggling notation validating phone number will be available on 7531

You'll need a DTMF phone to enter the #siteswap to be validated (sorry, it won't work from a rotary dial phone unless you're uncommonly good at whistling two notes at once)

It only supports vanilla with a max throw height of 9, because inputting multiplex, async, or higher throw heights via a telephone keypad is "hard"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap