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Figure 6: Elementary and composed measures
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Motion of forearm contains three elementary measures (between two continuous
lines).
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Motion of arm contains three elementary measures (between two continuous lines).
The lowest “common denominator” of the forearm's three elementary measures and
the arm's three elementary measures produces four composed measures of the two links.
These composed measures are denoted by the numerals 1 - 4.
Each partita can be seen as a collection of measures, where
each measure is actually
an ordered structure, made up of sets of three bits
. As already noted, due to the general
nature of their structure, each partita can be independently examined.
Figure 8 illustrates fi ve composed measures:
Measure 1:
ascending structure
. The relevant limb's dimension (velocity or any space
dimension) changes in a gradual manner, according to the limb hierarchy, starting
with the lightest limb, the one borne by all the other limbs, and concluding with the
heaviest limb, the one that lies at the base of the limb structure.
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Measure 2:
a vertical structure
, where all limbs change their positions simultane-
ously.
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Measure 3:
descending structure
, where the change begins at the base limb, and
continues at a steady pace up the hierarchy to the lightest limb.
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Measure 4:
descending graded structure
, which is very similar to the descending
messenger structure, except that the time lapse within which changes occur are not
uniform.
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Figure 7: Binary composed measures
