Various questions about The Rithmatist
Yes, 5 and 8 point defenses (constructed from applying the 9-point circle construction to right triangles and isosceles triangles respectively) could exist. They haven’t really been explored in world though. You can always bind more than one thing to a bind point, but binding multiple things weakens the point. It is a much better idea to add a small circle that gets 3 additional bind points. It doesn’t change anything if the point comes from multiple points in the 9-point construction. When I showed him the 9-point ellipses constructed from different triangle centers (see the constructions here ) he stared at them for a moment before answering. He hesitantly said that, yes, those constructions should be valid in theory, but that they shouldn’t be used in practice. The sides of ellipses are weak enough that if you expect to need to defend your sides you really should be using a circle. Yes, Lines of Vigor behave like light waves. Yes, this means that higher frequency waves are better for doing damage, lower frequency waves are better for transferring energy (and thus moving things). Yes, Lines of Vigor follow the rule that the angle of incidence = angle of reflection when bouncing off Lines of Forbiddance. LINES OF VIGOR ALSO REFRACT. I asked it in terms of whether they slightly change speed and direction when they move between materials like, say, concrete and asphalt. He said yes and that you also get the wavelength adjusting. Another version: So, 9-point circles are really important. You can get all the different point placements as special cases of the nine point circles
Uh-huh.
You can also get 5 point; is that valid Rithmatically?
Yeah, that would work.
And 8-point?
8-point they haven’t done very much experimentation with.
But you could!
Yes, you could.
So when you have multiple points, that are like a point where there are multiple things, could you bind multiple things to that point?
Um yes, and you can always bind multiple things to a point–
Oh you can always bind–
So you can bind a chalkling and a circle to the same point…
…but it’s going to make it weaker, so you don’t usually want to do it. You are better off to just stick circle on and get multiple points off of that.
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But if it had multiple ones, would that make it less bad to bind two?
No–
So it doesn’t–
It doesn’t. Good question!
If you use different circle centers rather than the orthocenter, you cando 9-point conic constructions and make 9-point ellipses?
Yes.
Is that valid?
I would say yes, it could be valid.
Wasn’t there a rule about ellipses being weak?
Yes, they are a little less strong.
Because the long sides are weaker than the short sides.
Yeah, but this would work. There’s not much reason to use it because the other is naturally– has a stronger integrity than this, but you could theoretically do that. The defenses that make use of an ellipse make use of the strengths of an ellipse already. But yeah that would be possible
With an ellipse you are asking for your opponent to flank you and come at you from the sides. And then if he pushes your circle out you’re in trouble. […]
Do Lines of Vigor behave like light waves?
Yes.
So a higher frequency means it’s better at penetrating, lower frequency transfers energy and moves stuff?
Yes.
Nice, I didn’t know that one.
So, when they bounce off Lines of Forbiddance, do they follow laws of reflection?
Yes.
They should always reflect at the same angle. Think of, like, a pool table.
If a line of vigor is moving from concrete onto asphalt…
Yes.
Is it changing–
It’s going to act like light transferring to a new medium.
So it refracts?
It’s going to– Yeah, it’s going to refract.
It changes speed as it moves?
Yep. And you get a different wavelength, etc. as it transfers onto a new medium.
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