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[ariock]

[ariock]

[Weezel]

[Ranger D]

[HitsHerMark]

[ariock]

[joeyhess]

Is there a good diagram for drawing a 3-circuit training labyrinth to the codex's 12x14 ft scale?

I had an idea.. the center circle of a basketball court is 12 ft diameter. (So's the freethrow circle.) A 3-circuit lab should mostly fit within that. Even a full 7-circuit lab can fit on a basketball court. A pic of the labrinths superimposed on a backetball court would be both a handy way to get a feel for the sizes, and should make it very easy to draw one on an actual court (using string).

[HitsHerMark]

[mr.judkins]

And six's image he uploaded in this thread gives you the center-points of your curves.

We got away with marking off 2ft (0.61m) dashes and joining them up for each circuit, but will work with a rope protractor next time. Will definitely be necessary in getting the larger size labyrinths looking right...

[ariock]

Per HitsHerMark and mr.judkins above, I'm attaching the best video I've seen of the method. You just follow one knot at a time, otherwise it'd be impossible.

Also, because I'm a little odd, I felt the need to draw it with chalk like we had laid down the yarn earlier. But doing the shortest paths first, then sequentially moving out and drawing each longer path, you'd probably get it done more quickly.

Also Also Wik, we didn't use posts. We used our hands or feet to hold the rope down and allow the sweeping end to rotate.

[Morgance_Fury]

I was always under the impression drawing a labyrinth would be very hard. But the Rope Protractor has definitely made the process easier, I see.

[quote=Ranger D]Does grass hold the chalk lines? We may want to make a bigger labyrinth, and if there isn't a bigger paved or gravel area, part of it may have to be drawn on the grass.[/quote]

I'm still catching up so I don't know if you've already tried, but usually when I've seen chalk used on grass it's always been ground into dust. And I think even then the grass doesn't hold the lines very well or for very long. I could be wrong but that's my guess.

[HitsHerMark]

[Morgance_Fury]

[unagi]

I discussed 7- and 5-circuit labyrinths with DDincrement, and we have some questions.

- Is the radius of the wall around the starting point of the 5-circuit labyrinth one foot or two feet? The illustration of 5-circuit in Chapter 5 is ambiguous, but in another illustration it looks like two feet. But I rather think that the central part of 5-circuit labyrinths is the same as that of 7-circuit ones, which means the radius is one foot. I think running a 5-circuit labyrinth should be a good training for running a 7-circuit, so similar designs should be desirable.

- Should we form a diamond at the center or draw just a cross there? Walking around an arc of 2-foot radius and turning a right angle are different in many ways.