Writing an absurd amount of scheme code to simply try and figure out how to continue this weaving pattern I started a few months ago (and after several studio moves) lost an important piece of paper...
#weaving #tabletweaving
Another full day of debugging this weave on paper and in code, and I managed to finally get going again today.
The trick was to ignore the tablet orientation and unpick and record the previous rotations I made for each tablet at a known good weft position. Then I could search through all the instructions for candidates that matched, and cross ref with the simulation.
I'd LOVE to know how people did this three thousand years ago when the original was made. Iron age women ftw.
It was worth the hassle because it's thrown up something I've long suspected - that the simulation (https://pattern-computer.thentrythis.org) may be displaying the reverse side of the weave! More debugging to come - and I'd like to get some of these diagnostic tools in that system too.
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