Drex's Tech Poi Blog #89: Fun with elliptical CAPs
1,868 views · Published 26 May 2010 · 5:45 · Indexed 23 October 2026
Channel: DrexFactor Poi · 2010 · People & Blogs
Two patterns to show off here today: one is somewhat derived from the 8-point pattern I demoed after getting back from the Temple of Poi Expo, but adds additional beats such that we get a pattern with four diamonds nested together inside of a big diamond. As I'm watching the video now, I'm realizing I'm actually showing two variants on it: one with antispin performed at each vertex and one where the top and bottom diamonds are converted to cateyes. That means there must also be a variant where all corners are treated as cateyes--I'll have to work on that in the coming week. Second is a variant based upon the technique Alien Jon showed at Firedrums for performing 6-petal antispin flowers. If we add diagonal transits between the points at which the diamond and box mode flowers line up, we wind up with a cool pattern that includes a really funky transit across the middle. More of these to come, I'm sure :)
