The Emergence Machine

Smocking

process · Technology · Level 3 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Action, a dynamic pattern of movement and transformation, and process, a sequence of changes driven by energy and occurring over time, come together to form smocking, a textile process that creates decorative embroidery patterns.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “smocking” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “smocking”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
smocking
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0SmockingSystemFormProcessStructureActionChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesSmockingL3ActionL1ProcessL2SystemL3E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Action L1 (requires)
    Understanding action is foundational to the process of smocking
  • Process L2 (requires) Systems sense
    Smocking is a textile process that creates decorative embroidery patterns.
  • System L3 (requires) mutual systems-theory sense
    Technology concepts are part of systems.