thanks so much for sharing this! I googled sine curve definition, and looked at the wikipedia link.
down the page, after all the technical information, there is a video clip that illustrates a sine curve being created that really helped me to picture it!
click on the blue “sine” inside the “box” link I posted. It will take you to the Wikipedia link.
then, scroll down a bit and you will see an animation clip of a circle rolling left to right.
there is a point on the circle, that, as the circle rotates and rolls to the right, the point is “drawing” out the sine curve…
I would seriously love to know what that hell this all means. I have a headache though and I’m going to get some alcohol to make it go away. I think maths hurts me, and the only tan I was familiar with, due to a hole in the ozone layer, under which I was stretched out, turns out to give you cancer. Now, where are those lemons? This gin needs something.
Just one more before I let this obsession go. I think I’ve explored it as far as I need to go for now.
I visited Chaco Canyon recently, a place I’ve been to several times before. I had mentioned above about adding an overlay design to this style of ring, and so that was on my mind. There is a particularlar petroglyph, perhaps two feet wide, high up on a wall on the trail between Casa Chiquita and Peñasco Blanco that I wanted to take a photo of. It reminds me of the Egyptian Eye of Horus.
Alec, I love the ring! Am also enjoying this discussion. Thank you.
In pondering your photos, I was surprised to see there is an additional element that you have missed. The glyph appears to be virtually symmetrical. There is another line of chevrons proceeding “southeast” from the leftmost angle of the eye and almost parallel to the upper chevron line.
Hello Alec,
I like. Very nice. A side question: The photo of the petrographs seems to have some other inspirations. There should be a excellent series of jewelry featuring these shapes and lines.
Thanks for sharing,
Judy in Kansas where it’s been sorta’ gray for several days with rain showers. Now the soil is too wet to finish planting, but what IS in the ground ought to be loving this!!
I spent the other day cleaning and reorganizing my studio. I found a couple of copper test pieces that will illustrate my original post very well. In each of the below, the ring shank on the right was made using Alan Revere’s original template, while the one on the left was made using my modified sinusoidal template.
Neither shank has been filed, so you can see the excess metal on the original template that has to come off before adding the sides.