Glossary

See also icons

D-BL

Diagrams for Bobbin Lace - an umbrella for a suite of projects/applications related to bobbin lace.

Droste

Shorthand fur using thread diagrams as pair diagrams. See wikipedia for a more general meaning of the droste effect. For example in a diamond mesh ctct becomes a rose ground and ct a Paris ground.

Force graphs

An algorithm evenly distributes nodes and links, and organizes items so that links are of a similar length. These algorithms balance attraction and repulsive forces.

GitHub

Hosting service for software development and version control. Free for open source projects.

d-bl/github.io at the start of the address bar? You are at the published pages. github.com/d-bl at the start of the address bar? You are viewing the source code. Something else than d-bl? You are viewing (or editing) some copy, probably of contributors.

GroundForge

A suite of tools for continuous bobbin lace. Focussing on transforming pair diagrams to thread diagrams.

Stitch

Interaction between two pairs, for the application a stitch may consist of stitch-pin-stitch