Cellular Chainmaille Theory - Dilation Transformations What is a Dilation? Dilation is a concept that is probably familiar to many chainmaillers, but I don't believe that it's ever been qualified as a term before. In short, a dilation is a transformation ...

The 4th and 5th CCT articles are up on the site:

Dilation Transformations
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Oblique Transformations
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Not a problem :). The whole point of the site is to try and educate people about the art of chainmaille. The theories have come about as a result of recognizing repeating concepts when rendering the weaves and making samples. The articles have been in the works for a number of years now.

...be used to stabilize a weave form. Sorry for the multiple replies. Not used to a character limit ;)

... , terminations and the positioning of cellular connections. There is also a Dilation transformation where a root cell is made with 2 different size rings (which will be the next article released). You also have modifications such as reinforcing and variations such as stacking that can also...

Absolutely something that was considered. Root cells don't exist in a vacuum, so one that can't connect to anything else is about as useful as a single ring. :) Weaves are made stable through AR variances, number of root cells to make a weave cell....

Cellular Chainmaille Theory - Beyond The Basics Introduction Welcome to the second article in my series on CCT (the first can be found here). This entry is going to assume that you are familiar with the elements and concepts that have already been ...

Was never a big user of twitter/x so I forgot all about posting this here. The second and third Cellular Chainmaille Theory articles are up on the site.

Beyond the Basics
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Grains and Grain Transformations
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I'm so sorry that I didn't reply sooner. Don't come on here much. Easiest explanation is that stable means the rings are going to stay where you put them, unstable is that they won't. While a root cell is stable in that it will always be 2 rings, those rings can be freely manipulated.

Check out our first article on Cellular Chainmaille Theory (CCT) and the power of the Root Cell.

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