profshoelace

Thank to OP for posting this and thus educating others about the “Granny Knot” problem in relation to shoelaces. All of your comments have been quite fascinating! I'm pleased that so many of you have also learned a couple of my own knots. The “Granny Knot” info can be life-changing, while the “Ian Knot” and “Ian's Secure Knot” can both be “life-improving”.

That would have been my "IAN-KNOT.COM" executable animation, which was first built in Jul-1993 and then optimised in Feb-1994, and which was uploaded to various BBSs (as we did in the years before The Internet.) I should put that program on my website for old times' sake!

My guess, based on the similarity to aglets, would be coax terminators?

Thanks for your kind words. It is mind-blowing to share knowledge with people from all around the world. Hopefully my humble website remains visible amidst the ever-growing hubbub of business that the internet has since become.

Well described! The fingers are indeed in superior positions for grabbing the bunny ears.

Like you, I'd love to pass a simple minimalist string to a Javascript code to render images client-side. My more recent "Create-a-Lace" does just that, dynamically generating all the .svg images using client-side Javascript. However, I've yet to see browsers correctly render shadows, without which the diagrams lose depth. When that hurdle is overcome, I may well extend this concept to all lacing methods.

In the meantime, I do indeed need to resort to some 600+ individual .png images in order to render each of the 50+ lacing methods with their many variations and multiple numbers of eyelet pairs.

Thanks, everyone, for stopping by and visiting my shoelace website. Fun to see that it is still highly respected, and from folks such as yourselves, that's pretty cool!