Mills Mess State Diagram
Barton Chittenden
tiger at iglou.com
Sun Jun 6 19:39:23 EDT 2004
Charlie Dancy's "Encyclopedia of Ball Juggling" contains a method of
notation for mills mess type patterns, called a "Mills Mess State
Diagram".
The basic idea is that there are states that are determined by how the
hands are crossed (left over right, right over left or uncrossed), which
hand is throwing (left or right) and what type of thow is being made
(cascade or reverse cascade).
It turns out that a lot of the twiddly patterns that we like to juggle
(mills mess, burke's barrage, rubenstein's revenge) fall into this
category.
I've always wondered how hard it would be to figure out combinatorially
all of the possible states/patterns for a given length of pattern, and
then how hard it would be to translate that to a jugglemaster style
(especially because jugglemaster has no concept of hands "crossing over"
vs. "crossing under".
--Barton
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