[ANSTHRLD] conflict check please

[Hedwig Seiffensider]

Thank you so much. I feel much more confident now as what you just told me
is exactly what I did! Yeah...I'm not as backward and behind as I've been
thinking I was. Thank you thank you thank you!
 Hedwig
(walks off standing taller very gratefully!)

 On 10/5/05, tmcd at panix.com <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Hedwig Seiffensider <lochherald at gmail.com> wrote:
> > *Per bend azure and gules, in sinister chief a cat sejant guardant Or*
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> > So, far I've not found anything
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> If you want to learn more about conflict checking, you could mention
> what categories and such that you looked at.
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> How I did it, too tersely expressed (ask me if you want anything
> expanded):
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> "Per bend azure and gules" is not *incredibly* common (36 items), so I
> looked first under it.
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> If there were two or more charges and neither was catlike, then there
> are CD for change of type of all charges in a group + CD for number;
> or, if the added charge was a secondary charge, CD for type of primary
> + CD for addition/removal of secondary. Either way, 2 CDs, so I could
> skip to the next.
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> The remainder:
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> Edmund Cavendish
> Per bend azure and gules, a cross formy Or.
> -- RfS X.2, substantial difference in type
> (alternately, CD for type + CD for location on the field)
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> Arend Adler
> Per bend azure and gules, a portative organ argent.
> -- same concept
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> Katrina von dem Schwarzwald
> Per bend azure and gules, in bend sinister a domestic cat sejant
> affronty and on a bend argent, three hearts palewise gules.
> -- CD for addition of the bend + CD for putting charges on a
> bend. Also CD for change of position of the cat + CD for
> change of tincture of the cat.
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> Rodrigo de Vargas
> Per bend azure and gules, in pale three lions dormant Or.
> -- CD for change of number + CD for change of posture
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> Nothing else. Therefore, any other possible conflict has at least one
> CD for the field tincture. That makes it easier to scan: henceforth,
> I only have to find one CD from anything and I can go to the next.
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> Note: there are other ways to clear the above conflicts. Most of them
> are also clear by X.2, because they fit the necessary preconditions
> and have substantial change of type. However, that requires more
> thought: I have to check for no more than two types of charge directly
> on the field and no overall charges. Personally, in this case I found
> it faster to count to two ("CD for number") and then scan for anything
> catlike ("CD for type"). The key for bulk conflict checking is to
> reject conflicts quickly and accurately.
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> Note: strewn charges (semy of whatever) count as a charge group.
> I think there was one in this set and several in the next. Since
> that's addition of a charge group, I handled it silently above and
> below.
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> Unfortunately for me, there's only one other thing that can be checked
> -- the cat. And there's LOTS of cats in the SCA. "Guardant" I
> ignore, because head position on a beast is not a CD. So its
> important attributes are
> - one
> - cat
> - sejant
> - Or
> - in sinister chief
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> Checking the on-line Ordinary, I see
> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Couchant
> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Passant
> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Rampant
> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Sejant
> Beast - Cat - <other tinctures>
> Beast - Cat - <other numbers>
> so everything but the location (in sinister chief) get filtered first:
> if any of them differ from your proposal, there's a CD for number,
> type, posture, or tincture, depending.
> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Sejant
> is the only category I open. 59 items -- sigh.
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> Looks like number is a quick eliminator now too. The easiest words
> for me to scan for are "on", "within", "between", and "and".
> "Contourny" and "to sinister" are in some of these items too, and
> they're the necessary second CD too (posture).
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> Mooneschadowe, Shire of
> (Fieldless) A lion-dragon statant contourny Or.
> -- 1 CD for the field (as with all of these) +
> 1 CD for change of type (half the charge changed)
> Not sure what this is doing under "sejant".
> No CD for location on the field: a fieldless badge has no
> location.
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> Leonessa des Belles Fleures
> Azure, a winged lion sejant Or, beneath the forepaws two garden
> roses argent, stalked and leaved proper.
> -- 1 CD for the field + 1 CD for adding wings +
> 1 CD for position on the field.
> Note: I don't know whether the roses are large enough to be
> worth a CD. Another key to fast conflict-checking is going
> for the easy CDs.
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> Ariel of Glastonbury Tor
> Gules, a winged lion sejant affronty Or.
> -- same as Leonessa + 1 CD for posture (affronty)
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> Kathleen MacChluarain the Pure
> Per chevron embattled azure and vert, a lion sejant Or langued
> gules orbed sable.
> -- 1 CD for the field + 1 CD for the position on the field.
> Armed, langued, orbed: not CDs (minor artistic details)
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> Michael Vladimir Gerewolf
> Per pale ermine and counter-ermine, a three-headed cheetah sejant
> affronty, outer heads addorsed, Or.
> -- *twitch*
> same as Kathleen: field + position
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> I see nothing else, so it looks clear to me. But I'm somewhat rusty.
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> Dannet de Lincoln
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> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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Hedwig Seiffender


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