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I'm in love with labyrinths, these ones, hence my icon, hehe..
And I have drawn and painted them on 3D objects aswell, but I never knew about this, wow, I need a labyrinth sphere now!
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It now seems likely that more complex labyrinths can be mapped onto spheres. I hope to write this up when I know more.
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Indeed. For me it repays study.
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I going to dig one on my land this year.
Approx. 18 m. in diameter.
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Very nice tut, Don, and an excellent bead.
Back in '07 I did a bunch of internet research on labyrinths and eventually spray-painted (in day-glo green) a temporary one on the lawn at our church. It enjoyed a moderate attendance. It was a modified/ simplified "Chartes"-style. If I remember correctly it was a 5-ring about 30 feet in diameter.
There's also a concrete 7-ring in park in nearby Bellflower, CA. I've walked it a couple of times.
Keep up the good work, my friend, I still enjoy your designs.
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St. Albans Episcopal, near me, has a permanant labyrinth pattern in their entry courtyard, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco has one, and there are labyrinths in at least six other Bay Area churches and at least three of the local parks. Plus some at schools, spas, and such. I designed a labyrinth for a local festival, and am designing another for a friend. Some of this will probably show up in my gallery at a future date.
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This is a great tutorial...thank you...I will have to check out the book you reccomend...just picked up a book full of native american designs...am very interested in the worldwide use of patterns and designs which are abstracts of transcendent thinking.
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It's a pricey book, but the photos are amazing. Let me know what you think of your new book.
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This is Called "PADMA VYUHAM" from Indian mythological story "Maha Bharatham".It is a design of a trap in war created by 'Kauravas', to defeat '
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It is in many places and many stories. I had not heard of this one. Thank you.
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I remember seeing labyrinth instructions like this years ago back in elementary school or something. I drew out a labyrinth and glued yarn over the paths...
I want to try this again on a bead now.
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I was a week too fast for this tutorial ... I was doing sketches for Threefold and looked up labyrinth patterns when I absolutely failed to figure it out on my own. Still, doing the pattern on a sphere makes a neat three-dimensional version of it. I would never have thought of that.
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I think the neatest part is the way the "inside" and "outside" become identical and symmetrical. Until I made one, I would never have thought that was possible. There is something I find magical (in the sense of producing an unusual and pleasant mental effect) in actually holding one of these and tracing the path, which is one reason I'm encouraging other people to make them, even just a simple pen or pencil drawn one.
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I want to see more people doing these.
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Doing Labyrinths or posting tutorials???
By the way your labyrinth has been a mental mantra for me lately.
I have discovered that I was looking for a βlinearβ direction to my βcyclicβ patterns in life. By reviewing your labyrinth bead I consciously and subconsciously realized that I was trying to reach and attain a point. '
Thus if I reached a point in my mind I would no longer feel the need to neither grow nor continue further. Relatively regress rather than experience and progress.
Thus this representation of the sphere (bead), along with the Labyrinth (originally represented as a linear / although circular formation) combined with the point to thread the bead βΊβ¦through...well, It has all brought me to a broader perspective and I believe it has actually changed me unconsciously. Phew! 
I hope to expand on this in my current piece somehowβ¦titled βDragon Windβ [link]
If I do not add the labyrinth now it is due to the fact I am still caught in it β¦(LOL)
Have a WONDERFUL DAY!!!
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I meant doing labyrinths, but I like to see people posting tutorials, too.
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I shall attempt the Labyrinth
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After you do one or two it should be easy. Get a ping-pong ball or a cheap wood bead and try it (you don't have to carve it, just do the drawing).
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Sounds easy enough, Don, but every time I try it on a 4-dimensional tesseract at least two of the paths drop off into null-space. LOL ...Embarassing, especially when all my friends insist that I'm a certifiable Cretan (sp.?).
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(It is well to learn from the errors of others, since there is not time enough to make all of them by yourself.)(Swedish saying)
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Sounds like I need to re-write it again.
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I think it's just me. LOL I was never very good with maps.
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