Knot Quiz

[alpineer]

http://www.ropelab.com.au/ropelab-quiz-4-knot-or-not/

[Knutern]

Wasn't able to view the images in full scale (I tried only chrome). It just started loading forever.

[alpineer]

That's a bit odd and unfortunate. I tried the link myself and I was able to get full scale images, which you really need to have in order to do the test. I use Firefox, but it shouldn't make any difference. If you right click on an image do you see an option in the context menu to view full scale?

[Mobius]

It worked fine for me Linux/Firefox

[asemery]

I was stumped by question # 4.  I had never heartd of a figure-of-nine knot let alone a figure-of-ten.
  That brings up a a question
Is the correct term   figure-of-eight knot   or  figure eight knot?  Does the figure-of-eight term have snob appeal?     Cheers.  Tony
                                           

[alpineer]

I was stumped by question # 4.  I had never heartd of a figure-of-nine knot let alone a figure-of-ten.
  That brings up a a question
Is the correct term   figure-of-eight knot   or  figure eight knot?  Does the figure-of-eight term have snob appeal?  Cheers.  Tony
                                         

Figure-of-eight is the formal term, so in that sense would be correct. But I don't think there's any snob appeal associated with it.

[Dan_Lehman]

> ... I was able to get full scale images,
> which you really need to have in order to do the test.

That's an understatement : in the grapevine images,
I'd say that many of them satisfy the question --it's
a dubious determinant to lean so hard on slight
differences in *bulges* and so on (they are not exploded).
Also, it's arguable about excluding the "wrong" orientation
of the opposed overhands, though I concur in choosing
the common, "concordant" (C.Warner's term) one.

Btw, I was especially pleased to see the one trick "fig.8"
(rightmost, IIRC), in which one line makes not that but
an overhand --and the structure is asymmetric,
so one should wonder about which loading gets what
behavior pluses/minuses!  (I myself have long thought
that that knot makes a good legend-buster about how
the intended knot is so readily recognizable : I surmise
that one could present that bogus knot to many who
assert this characteristic and prove them wrong!)


--dl*
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