Drex's Tech Poi Blog #84: Octagonal patterns
1,880 views · Published 28 April 2010 · 6:17 · Indexed 1 November 2026
Channel: DrexFactor Poi · 2010 · People & Blogs
In a strange bit of zeitgeist, I ran cross the same idea from two different poi spinners who I'm relatively sure had never spoken of the idea between each other this past weekend while I was in San Francisco. When dealing with 4-sided polygons in spinning, as one tends to with antispin flowers, elliptical CAPs, and any 9-square theory items, you wind up with two similar but difficult to transition between patterns: box and diamond mode. If we expand these out to octagonal figures, however, the issues switching between modes diminishes significantly in complexity. Here are a couple such patterns that expand on Zan's diamond, elliptical CAPs, and a possible solution to the Carolingian cross problem.
