On a separate note, did you invent this knot, as in design its creation to utilise specific knot elements
and attributes (see for example the KC Hitch on this forum), or did you discover it as in its creation
came about as a consequence of twiddling or playing with knot manipulations (see 'from the pocket of DerekSmith').
Then again, did you re-engineer a discovered knot to remove faults and enhance it to include advantages.
If you indeed invented or re-engineered it, then I would seriously like to read the process you went through during its creation.
Okay, so we now know it's not your
monitor that kept you from reading
Nufced states that he was seeking to tie SmitHunter's bend in the middle of a line (an interesting sort of challenge),
and this led him to his discovery --which though is a bit shy of the original challenge. Btw, that challenge can be
met (well, what one ties isn't the bend per se but rather a double-eyed knot that entails the bend, so to speak).
... but then what?
Although in a way his path doesn't lie completely in any of your categories, does it?!
He had a goal, if not quite
design, in mind --instantiating the SmitHunter's bend
in the bight--;
but that isn't quite striving for "specific knot elements," to my mind (though one might expect
to inherit those of the goal knot --except that in the bight one clearly isn't joining ends).
What might emerge by some hidden magic
out of the pocket (or otherwise just
found)
can become refined by some realization of merit in the structure. E.g., in the brief research
into
History & Science of Knots, I saw a sketch (in another chapter) of an Inuit (stopper?)
knot, and realized a potential for a stopper knot with an Ashley's stopper-like working face,
but with greater bulk behind and hence greater strength (presumably) and resistance to
deformation/capsizing/pulling-through. --wasn't so much by design but serrendipity, though
after the initial encounter some
designing refining came into play. (And so now another
bit of play-rope lies
tied up and NA for me until that knot gets recorded in ink on paper.
#20070719h23:54)
--dl*
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ps: I find that using for H&S text above the intro symbols [ i ] [ u ] (spaced here to deny effect)
that if I close with only the end symbol for the first (here, [ i ]) --i.e., [ / i ]--, I close BOTH the
italics & underlining!? (I'd gotten a hint of this when I inadvertently used both closures in
the order begun (i u ... /i /u) instead of the reverse order (inside-out: i u ... /u /i ): in this
case, I saw the '[ / u ]' exposed, and so moved it before the i-closure, even though the end
of the underlining had been effected. .:. So, at least in for these two, a shorthand exists. Hmmm!
[7/23 edit for line-length balance and "a"=>"an"]
