#multidirectional

[n64retro]

Bangai-O Treasure / ESP Nintendo 64 1999

[figureskatingpenguin]

Sonja Hilmer (USA): Avatar The Last Airbender | 2023 Midwestern Sectionals

finally found someone skating to the atla ost! (I can't find her nationals fs, so sectionals will have to do.) I am such a huge fan of her incorporation of the dragon dance and other firebending moves!! very cool!!

[modernstairs-in]

How Many Types of Staircase?

Exploring the Different Types of Staircases: A Comprehensive Guide

Staircases are essential architectural elements in any building, providing access between floors and enhancing the overall aesthetic. Choosing the right type of staircase can significantly impact the design, functionality, and safety of your space. In this blog, we will explore the various types of staircases, their features, and the best applications for each, helping you make an informed decision for your home or business.

1. Straight Staircase

The straight staircase is the most straightforward and commonly used design. It consists of a single flight of stairs that connects two levels without any turns or landings. Ideal for spaces where direct access is necessary, this design is space-efficient and easy to construct.

Best For: Small homes, offices, and areas with limited space.

2. L-Shaped Staircase (Quarter Turn)

An L-shaped staircase features a 90-degree turn at a landing, providing a more visually appealing design than a straight staircase. This type can save space while adding interest to your interior.

Best For: Residential settings, especially in corners or tight areas.

3. U-Shaped Staircase (Half Turn)

The U-shaped staircase consists of two flights of stairs connected by a landing, forming a U-shape. This design allows for a more extended run, making it suitable for larger spaces. It also creates a dramatic visual effect.

Best For: Spacious homes and public buildings, such as hotels and theaters.

4. Spiral Staircase

A spiral staircase is a compact and stylish option that winds around a central pole. This design is excellent for maximizing space in tight areas and adds a unique architectural feature to any room.

Best For: Small homes, lofts, and areas where space-saving is a priority.

5. Circular Staircase

Similar to a spiral staircase, a circular staircase has a wider, more gradual curve. This design offers a more comfortable ascent and descent and can be a stunning focal point in any space.

Best For: Grand entrances, luxury homes, and public buildings.

6. Floating Staircase

The floating staircase features treads that appear to "float" without visible supports, creating an open and airy feel. This modern design is popular in contemporary architecture and adds a touch of elegance.

Best For: Modern homes and open-concept spaces.

7. Winder Staircase

A winder staircase is similar to an L-shaped staircase but lacks a landing. It uses pie-shaped treads to change direction, making it a great space-saving option.

Best For: Compact areas where a landing is not feasible.

8. Multidirectional Staircase

A multidirectional staircase changes direction multiple times, allowing for creative designs in larger homes. This type can be both functional and visually appealing, often serving as a statement piece.

Best For: Complex layouts and luxury homes.

9. Bifurcated Staircase

A bifurcated staircase is a grand design that splits into two flights, usually seen in upscale homes or public buildings. It creates an impressive entrance and can be designed with ornate details.

Best For: Luxury homes, hotels, and grand public spaces.

10. Railroad Staircase

The railroad staircase consists of a straight flight of stairs without landings, resembling the shape of railroad tracks. This simple design is space-efficient and straightforward to install.

Best For: Smaller spaces where simplicity is key.

11. Alcove Staircase

An alcove staircase is built into a recess or alcove, saving space while adding unique architectural interest. This design can create cozy nooks and enhance the overall ambiance of a room.

Best For: Compact homes and creative architectural designs.

Conclusion

Choosing the right type of staircase is crucial for enhancing your space’s functionality and aesthetic appeal. From straight and L-shaped designs to elegant spiral and floating options, each type offers unique advantages. When selecting a staircase, consider factors such as available space, style preferences, and safety requirements to find the perfect fit for your property.

[chisungie]

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[sw5w]

Crunch!

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:18:15

[lcatala]

Inspired by this post by @thanergetic-hyperlinks, I present to you

Tessellations of the Nine Houses

(Or "I can't really draw figurative art so my Locked Tomb fanarts are geometrical vector drawings")

"A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps." — Wikipedia.

Making tilings themed after each necromantic House seems obvious: for each House you pick a tile with the same number of sides as the number of the House; but this does present some challenges for some of the Houses.

note 1: this might give the impression that I first decided on the symbols and then found patterns to match them in a very organized and motivated manner; in practice it was much more chaotic and multidirectional, the patterns informing the symbols as much as the symbols informed the patterns; this is fine since symbolism is entirely associative and arbitrary anyway

note 2: I added alt-texts for all the images, but I have no idea of how to properly describe abstract geometric art; if you feel you can do a better job than I did, feel free to put your fingers where your mouth is--wait, hang on-- I mean feel free to provide better descriptions if you can

note 3: looking forward to the geometry nerds explaining to me how I got basic geometric details wrong, friggin nerds

The First House

The First House seems obvious, as a shape with one side is an ellipse (of which the circle is a special case). There's just one problem: ellipses do not tile the plane. No matter how much you stretch them and deform them, the very nature of ellipses means you'll always have gaps or overlaps.

So we cheat and we work with overlaps: turns out there is a history of tilings that use circles as a construction pattern, then turn the overlapping sections into the actual tiles. Such patterns have been used extensively in European and Middle Eastern art, and have also been associated with the New Age movement, so it fits Jod's style perfectly. And so we get this:

The different cells correspond to different House colors, with the resulting gothic stained-glass appearance quite in line with the Roman Catholic Empire vibe Jod is going for. The overlapping circles convey the intricacy of the relation between the First House and the eight other, both autonomous from it yet intrinsically part of it.

The Second House

There's a variety of geometrical shapes that have two sides, but most of them don't tile the plane, altho there is one that does — if we take a crescent shape and slightly thicken it so that the inner and outer curves are identical, we can do this:

The waving pattern is of course evocative of the flag of conquest which the Cohorts of the Second House have planted on many worlds.

The Third House

With the Third House things get a lot easier, because equilateral triangles are one of the three regular polygons (where all sides are the same length and all angles are identical) that tile the plane all by themselves without needing any other shape! Which however doesn't mean we have to be boring; we can have a little bit of fun:

Flowers for the beauty and ionizing radiation warning signs for the rancid vibes.

The Fourth House

Squares are the second regular polygons that tile the plane by themselves, so again our job is easy here, altho we still want to not go for the easiest option in order to be able to work in some symbolism:

The four big navy squares with a small white square at the center of course evoke the number five and the shadow of the Fifth House's regency over the Fourth.

The Fifth House

Regular pentagons do not tile the plane, so we have to use a more unusual shape — there are many options, but obviously we want to again pick one that offers some interesting numerical symbolism:

The cross-like patterns of course bring up the number four and the hold of the Fifth House over the Fourth. As for the crosses themselves and the fact that they appear to be made of wooden stakes, well uh… Abigail Pent, Vampire Hunter??? She does have Van Helsing vibes.

The Sixth House

Hexagons are the third and last regular polygons that tile the plane on their own. But this is the Sixth House we're talking about, things need to look orderly but in a convoluted way. So how about multiple levels of recursion:

The apparent complexity of the pattern is created by different orientations of a small number of elements, either 3 irregular hexagons, or 1 patterned regular hexagonal tile, depending on how you look at it, in line with the kind of hermetic scientism one imagines the Sixth House indulges in. The result is those apparent three-dimensional elements and emerging higher-order patterns, including that of ꙮ, the Multiocular O found in exactly one word of one 15th century Old Church Slavonic translation of the Book of Psalms ("серафими многоꙮчитїй" many-eyed seraphim).

The Seventh House

Regular heptagons do not tile the plane, but they don't need much tweaking to work, which is fine since for the Seventh House we want something deceptive yet simple (deceptively simple? deceptive in its simplicity?):

Hearts for the beauty, snake scales for the poison [the Seventh House is on Venus, the planet named after the Roman Goddess of love, but etymologically "Venus" is actually the same root as "venom", and of course "Septimus" resembles "septic" — tho in that case there's no etymological connection, it's just a happy coincidence].

The Eighth House

Octagons do not tile the plane, but they come pretty close, so we can give the Eighth House a simple, stern, but slightly threatening pattern:

Boring sterile bleached temple mosaic, with just a little bit of passive-agression, a perfect fit for Evangelical Christians Tumblr puritans the Eighth House.

The Ninth House

And so we reach the Ninth House. Now the thing about the Ninth House is that, even by imperial standards, they're huge freaks, like they're completely unhinged heretical weirdoes. So, when it comes to their tiling, we need to get weird, like, a lot weirder than we've been so far, and this will require some context, so get ready because now we're officially going on a wild tangent.

So far all the tilings we've seen were periodic. That is, they were drawing a pattern that repeats itself indefinitely in all directions.

But starting in the 1960s, mathematicians began to study aperiodic tilings, tilings that don't repeat; you can keep expanding them forever and never exactly find back the original pattern you started with. The first mathematical proof of such a pattern was made in 1964 and theoretically required 20,426 distinct tile prototypes… This was soon refined to just 104 tile prototypes, then a mere 40. By 1971, it was mathematically demonstrated that you could make such a pattern with just 6 tile prototypes.

Except that was a lie.

Note that I said mathematically demonstrated. As it turns out there was an aperiodic pattern with just 5 tile prototypes, known as Girih, that had been used in Islamic art… since at least the 13th century — but it had historically been treated merely as an element of architectural design, and its mathematical properties weren't studied until 2007.

Then in 1973 this guy Penrose came along and demonstrated you could make an aperiodic tiling with just 2 tile prototypes. So now the goal was to find the ultimate aperiodic tiling, the one that would use only one tile prototype. Given how fast the field had progressed so far, it seemed that this discovery was imminent.

It took 50 years.

Not only that, but it was the work of amateur mathematician David Smith who accidentally discovered a 13-sided polygon that could make an aperiodic tiling all by itself (he then had his discovery checked by and co-authored a paper with a number of professional mathematicians).

EXCEPT THAT WAS A LIE AGAIN.

In turns out an aperiodic tiling using only one tile prototype had already been found… in 1936. But since the study of aperiodic tilings only started in the 60s, its significance in that domain wasn't understood at the time. It was seen as significant, but for an entirely unrelated reason: it was the first demonstration of a polygonal shape that needed only two copies of itself to completely enclose the original one — many mathematicians before that point thought the minimum possible was 3 (think of the Triforce from Zelda, with one equilateral triangle completely enclosed between three other identical triangles).

And coincidently, that shape happens to be a highly-irregular nonagon [yes "enneagon" is """technically""" more correct but "nonagon" has been used since the 17th century and is more common and it has Nona in it and Nona loves you]. So here it is, the Voderberg tiling, the freakish freakish tessellation of the Ninth House:

Like you see this and you're like "what is this, what is that thing, that's not a tiling, what the fuck is that" — but it is, it is a tiling, you can keep adding the freaky polygon and it keeps expanding outward forever, with no gap, no overlap, and with an ever-changing pattern. A double-spiral radiating outward, for Anastasia and Samael, Anastasia and Alecto, Alecto and Harrowhark, Harrowhark and Gideon.

And if you were thinking that this last one must have been significantly harder to draw than the other ones, you would be correct.

[genderkoolaid]

heard a recording of my own voice today... by jove i sound gay. truly a multidirectional tranny voice. i get why queerphobes are so angry, i wouldn't know what slurs to call me if i met myself

[n64retro]

Xeno Crisis Bitmap Bureau Nintendo 64 2023

[galacticdrift]

I regret to inform everyone that I am now invested in the stupid cruise ship medical procedural

perhaps I will have to watch a stupid cruise ship medical procedural show

[chase-solidago]

A Fandom Gift Economy

In an era of Content Creation™️, I feel like fandom creators are feeling like we're treated as Content Factories, not collaborators and community members. Whether fanartists, fic writers, gif creators, and others, there's always posts going around begging for interaction, instead of silent consumption.

It puts me in mind of how Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about gift economies in Braiding Sweetgrass.

I think fandom works when it is treated as a gift economy. A fic, a drawing, they aren't a static object. They're an act of building connection, a conversation with other people. It's a building block in "a set of relationships" that forms fandom communities. What are we, if not a network of people exchanging ideas, creations, and love?

In the era of Content™️, big media has trained us to expect Content as an object we passively consume. Pay money, get thing, end of interaction. The main feedback is to pay or not. Fandom doesn't work that way. The exchange has to be multidirectional, reciprocal.

In a gift economy, the "free" thing isn't free. It's an invitation into a community, and a "bundle of responsibilities" to feed back into the system. It's not that a fic demands a comment in exchange, necessarily. This isn't one-in-one-out capitalist exchange. But someone created something that you got to enjoy. That in turns, calls on you to contribute something too! Anything! A comment, a conversation, some exchange, some human connection!

We create these communities as a gift economy network, sure that if we make something, we will receive that energy back from the fandom in some form.

So how do we keep the fandom gift economy healthy and reciprocal?

[evilminji]

You know The Force™? Yes, from Star Wars.

What if It and Ectoplasm, as a vague, all encompassing Primordial Force That IS... were Exs?

Now, now, I here your scepticism. But hear me out! I am going somewhere with this! Possibly somewhere amusing! Might be candy! Who knows! ANYWAY~☆

The Primordial Forces That ARE.™

Imagine um like infinite, multidimensional, multidirectional, endlessly stacking, 2-D pancakes! That are ALIVE. Gods beyond godhood. Inherently Amoral. Not IMMORAL... Amoral.

As in removed from morality.

Outside it.

Just as they are with most things. Time, change, entropy and order. They are the textbook definition of "I EXSIST" in the eldrich sense. It's like trying to understand the thought process of rocks. A black hole.

The best thing everyone can do is move on and accept that our fleshy little meat brains are incapatible with the information we are trying to take in. They DO like us though! For the given quality of "like" as they are capable of understanding it.

It's neat. They are neat!

Why bring um up, though? Well~ >.> remember that "stacked" thing? Not EVERY universe has all of them. In fact, MOST universe don't have more then one! Why would you need TWO Infinte Powers watching you? You're not that special!

And if you ARE, that's not a GOOD thing!

So like? Star Wars? Has The Force. As does every variation and fic offshoot universe. The spin off series. Unknown, undiscovered, "and everything was peaceful, safe, and fine" universe's where nothing story worthy happened.

Danny? Gets Ectoplasm.

The Zone.

Which? Is where Ectoplasm stores their blorbos. The FUNNY ones. The INTERESTING ones. The "I just think they're neat" ones. And FRANKLY? It HAS TO STOP! It's getting out of hand! A hobby is ONE thing, but THIS? The last one tried to invade OTHER UNIVERSE. And now you want to put ANOTHER little crown on your favorite OC?

Stop TORMENTING the little thing! This is BENEATH YOU! No more "edgy" halfa creatures!

Give me that!

Aaaaaand Danny is in Space? W...Why is Danny in space? Danny doesn't WANT to be in SPACE. Danny was about to finally have a burger and a NAP! Guys? Guys, this isn't funny! Where the FUCK is he?? Why are all the ghosts blue?

Why can random space monks body him? But like... only conditionally? The swords are Tingly but the hand wave throw thing? Yeets like the football? And, hell yeah aliens? But boooo, most of them are jerks?

Also >:/ not so thrilled about how people talking about Clones. Or treating them.

And your "Chancellor" fruitloop is very... Vlad. Vibes be RANCID.

He wants to go home but might Have To Cause Problems On Purpose first.

Meanwhile? Skywalker n his secret wife are somewhere VERY green and the white not-wookies are very concerned about her health. But don't worry! They caught the problem early. And prenatal care in important. Also so is mental health. Here, talk to this soft pile of fur with a soft understanding voice! That's elder Councilfang!

Why? Because Ectoplasm is petty. Fuck YOU, Force. If you're gonna take THEIR favorite bloro, then Ectoplasm is gonna take YOUR current favorite TOO! See how YOU like your bloro missing!

@babbling-babull @the-witchhunter @hdgnj @hypewinter @mutable-manifestation @spidori @lolottes @legitimatesatanspawn

[dykesynthezoid]

Between the Gemma/Helly R parallels and the Devon/Reghabi crumbs and the Reghabi and Cobel being exes fodder this really was They most lesbian episode so far 2 me. Mark/Gemma you move me so deeply and Mark/Helly I appreciate you so much but I think most of all I want to see Mark inexplicably caught in the midst of multidirectional nuclear level dyke drama with no idea how it happened

[dwarvendiaries]

I suppose I could build The Wasp Factory(structure) from The Wasp Factory(Book) in Dwarf Fortress, but even I think that’d be gratuitously cruel and poor taste

Just finished The Wasp Factory. Holy fuck that was just like being slowly being bitten into by a creature. I predicted the twist a couple chapters ahead because reasons, but still have so many thoughts

[notchainedtotrauma]

I have written this short (paywalled) essay as an accounting of the cross-pollination of Black gossip, warnings, stories, and whispers. I have also spoken to the corrosiveness and death making that result from those pathways becoming hypervisible and easily accessible. This essay is behind a paywall so I'm going to quote some of it to hint at both the tonality and the content.

As an informational multidirectional pathway, woke/ness functions as the lens stripping the skins off a webbing of sleek systems, and mass echo of chemical burns. Yet, there's a breach through the boundaries of urgent whispering, and the leak spreads as the slovenly work of a filmic allyship. Nobody can be woker (if there is such a thing) than an amalgation of good-willed people whose commitment to goodness can only be delineated by seized semiotics.

Rumors, gossip, backend whispers, behave as both tentative information and shuttered performance. There's hunger in the nameless nick. Beyoncé uses Lemonade not only as an art object, but as a sly way to perform the simultaneity of gossip, of her reality, and of her gashes. She says everything. She says nothing. Speculation breeds the heft of the tale. What happened ? What's happening ? How will it end ?

[cyndellw]

World Building Notes: Language

I decided to start publishing little world building and writing notes for my fanfic, Small Creatures (mostly to help me keep track of them). While the primary focus is the relationship between Performance Guide and Frantic Stagehand, I explore a lot of their relationships but I also take the opportunity to explore a lot of the surrounding world of Sky. If you like to discuss with me please do! I love hearing people’s headcanons and theories!

(Also you should go read it there's links all over my tumblr lmao)

On Language Development

So I do think that there are linguistic differences between the different realms of Sky, to the point that there is enough of a barrier that someone raised in Valley might not be able to immediately communicate with someone raised in Golden Wastes (or Golden Sands, as I’ve been calling it since this is pre-Shattering). However, I think that they all have the same root language, which is the one in Isle of Dawn, likely spoken by Passage Guide if we go from the idea that they are a very ancient spirit (very likely).

Additionally, I do think that there’s a shared written alphabet. Based on the Vault OOB area we can assume that the alphabet is something similar to Hebrew so it’s likely an abjad system with niqqud used to denote vowels. However! One thing that can be noticed is that in many places the script is the same just written backwards! I personally like to think this means that their writing system may be multidirectional, and perhaps they wrote from the outside of the page in at least in terms of books, and then beyond that it may have been dependent on dominant hand.

(For reference)

Not going into verbal and nonverbal communication, admittedly a lot of my focus is on Valley because that’s where a majority of the fic takes place. For some reason I imagine them speaking rather quickly, and rather loudly. Additionally, there is probably a lot of indirect cues. For example, saying “that’s interesting” so someone with a bad haircut instead of just telling them it looks bad, which someone from the Golden Sands might be more likely to do (indirect vs direct). It’s my personal nightmare as an autistic person but go off.

I’ll add to this post more later I just wanted to put this up here and see what other people think!