Polyhedron flowers

Polyhedron - a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces.

I've started this thread to embark on a journey; a journey of nth dimensional poi constructs.

The 2nd dimension: (Height, width)
Most people spin in the second dimension almost exclusively(well almost, more on that later). They stick to one plane usually at their sides or in front of their body. On these planes their poi live, spinning circles, isolations, and beautiful flowers. The thing is while this is great for learning it extremely limits our possibilities as poi-ist.

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Now earlier in the post I said that people almost exclusively spin in the second dimension. While this is true perhaps I should have said people almost exclusively draw in the second dimension.

"Draw? What do you mean draw! With what pencil?"
"Imagine the poi head as your pencil"
"Oh! I get it"

While I'll admit these are extremely beautiful patterns, we need to expand our minds. By adding a third dimension

How do we add a third dimension(breadth) to our spinning you ask? Plane changes, which believe it or not every one who masters the three beat weave has mastered one form of changing planes.

What do I mean? Well imagine the symbol for infinity ∞ (a Lemniscate) and fold it in half length wise. Does this remind you of anything? It should be the very first move you ever learned, the three beat weave. Which is a nifty way of changing from a plane on one side of your body to another on the opposite side.

See you already know one way of changing planes. Lets add a few more... queue the third dimension!!! duck

The 3rd dimension: (Height, Width and Breadth)
3D spinning has been popping up every where on the internet lately and its just what this community needs!

The simplest way of entering the third dimension while spinning is to take the Lemniscate and bend it length wise only 90 degrees - forming a corner. Lets practice this a bit:

Perform a two beat weave with one poi, one circle on the left of your body then another on the right(folded lemniscate) and work on unfolding this by 90 degrees. So you end up tracing one circle in front of your body and another to the right(or left). Congratulations you've purposely entered the third dimension!

Now this may not seem useful at first but, you've just opened a whole new world of spinning. Which brings me back to the topic of this thread

Polyhedron Flowers
Now that we can unfold the lemniscate what can we do with it you ask? I've found that this unfolding lends its self well to flowers. For instance if you are spinning a normal four petal flower in front of your body(wallplane) with one hand you can seamlessly transition into one of the side planes by unfolding the flower into the next plane.

I like to imagine a polyhedron surrounding my body, the easiest of which is a cube. I limit myself to only spinning on the faces of the cube.

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If you use both poi in same time same direction with your arms moving in split time it seems as if you are spinning two flowers side by side. But you're not since they are surrounding your body.

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This is only the tip of the iceberg. You can easily spin on other polyhedron, one I've been playing with is a octahedron.

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Give it a try and see what you can come up with! you're really only limited by your imagination.

Sadly this is all I have time for today but, soon I will return with studies from the fourth dimension.

Hint:
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Till then my friends

Peace, Love and Circles
-Gerald

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