http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/ String Figure Contributors Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:35:48 GMT Donna Rae http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/76 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/76 got pictures? donnarae To: stringfigures@yahoogroups.com From: mmcconnell17704@... Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:19:01 +0000 Subject: [stringfigures] Castle Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:36:50 GMT mmcconnell17704 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/75 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/75 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 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:32:42 GMT mmcconnell17704 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/74 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/74 I added Nicholas's picture of Castle Door to the photos section. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:20:30 GMT mmcconnell17704 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/73 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/73 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 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:33:28 GMT Jamis Buck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/72 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/72 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 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:30:01 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/71 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/71 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 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:07:52 GMT Jamis Buck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/70 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/70 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 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:08:50 GMT Jamis Buck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/69 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/69 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 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:03:58 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/68 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/68 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 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:53:27 GMT Jamis Buck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/67 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/67 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, Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:22:35 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/66 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/66 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 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:03:22 GMT Jamis Buck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/65 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/65 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 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:04:10 GMT Wiremu Te Kiri http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/64 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/64 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 Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:11:36 GMT bookmigration http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/49 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/49 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 Mon, 30 May 2005 11:40:05 GMT Ben Daglish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/47 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stringfigures/message/47 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