| Chart (below) and
hand drawings ©1994, 1996 Stan Tenen — Upper body postures courtesy
Karen Ann Carty
From Mr. Tenen's description of the first published version of this
chart, from TORUS, the Journal of the Meru Foundation, Vol. 2, #4, page
20:
The model and letter-shapes in the chart below are carefully hand-drawn
tracings of shadowgrams of one physical model right hand. The hands shown
holding the model hand are an attempt to show what a right hand looks like
– from the point-of-view of a person wearing the model on their own hand.
In a few cases there are minor distortions in the drawings to enhance their
clarity. In other cases there are distortions and inconsistencies due to
my lack of artistic ability. Since it is our objective to show enough of
the gesture for each letter for it to be identified by the reader and to
define a pointing direction and orientation for each letter, these inaccuracies
should not be a problem. Likewise, some letters are truncated (or otherwise
simplified) views of the whole model. These partial views are fully usable
as long as they are sufficient to specify the particular pointing direction
for each gesture.
©1994 Stan Tenen
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