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History of D-BL and GroundForge

D-BL started as DiBL under google-code. By the time that google-code discontinued, an account by the name dibl was already taken and the i replaced by a dash.

The dotted polar grids were exercises to master new technology.

Timeline

  • end of 2001:
    • The first release for flanders thread diagrams
  • before 2008:
    • A desktop application with a few more traditional grounds, each predefined with a tedious process and some custom XML. This has a textual tree view of the diagrams, drilling down from spider to stitches to cross/twist. You can try to execute it with OpenJDK 8.
  • 2013:
    • Discovery of PhD research in progress that lead to tesselace
    • Redesign using SVG, a combination of a web application and inkscape plugins
      this allowed again more patterns but still had a limited choice of stitches
  • fall 2015:
    • Proof of concept with force graphs,
    • Inspiration for this cheat-sheet.
      Both reduced the burden of complex GUIs with file IO and parsing complex data structures.
  • 2017:
    • Discovery of Jo Edkins' index on an out-of-copyright book, the sampler by Gertrude Whiting.
    • Request for a guinea pig to review GroundForge.
    • Discovery of the Droste effect: using thread diagrams as pair diagrams.
  • January 2018
    • More tile configurations than bricks and bathroom.
  • Mid 2019:
    • Extended the cheat sheet for longer lines between stitches.
  • August 2021:
    • Tutorials for a workshop at IOLI UnConn 2.0 hosted by the lace museum
    • birth of the nets page
  • May 2022:
    • birth of the pdf/print friendly page
  • January 2023:
    • birth of the symmetry page
  • Mid 2023:
    • Split the main GroundForge page into pattern/stitches/droste
    • the separated pages are print friendly by themselves
  • Fall 2023 Proof of concept for snowflakes recipes without having to distort initial geometry
  • November 2024:
    • reduced the all-in-one page to links to the new pages and clean-up
  • December 2024:
    • Snowflakes recipes integrated into a mixer of four snowflakes
    • Droste page (pair diagrams to thread diagrams) now uses the clickable new color code