<div>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! </div>
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<div>Hedwig</div>
<div>(walks off standing taller very gratefully!)<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:tmcd@panix.com">tmcd@panix.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:tmcd@panix.com">tmcd@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Hedwig Seiffensider <<a href="mailto:lochherald@gmail.com">lochherald@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:<br>> *Per bend azure and gules, in sinister chief a cat sejant guardant Or*<br>><br>> So, far I've not found anything<br><br>If you want to learn more about conflict checking, you could mention<br>what categories and such that you looked at.
<br><br><br>Spoiler space ...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>How I did it, too tersely expressed (ask me if you want anything<br>expanded):<br><br>"Per bend azure and gules" is not *incredibly* common (36 items), so I
<br>looked first under it.<br><br>If there were two or more charges and neither was catlike, then there<br>are CD for change of type of all charges in a group + CD for number;<br>or, if the added charge was a secondary charge, CD for type of primary
<br>+ CD for addition/removal of secondary. Either way, 2 CDs, so I could<br>skip to the next.<br><br>The remainder:<br><br> Edmund Cavendish<br> Per bend azure and gules, a cross formy Or.<br> -- RfS X.2, substantial difference in type
<br> (alternately, CD for type + CD for location on the field)<br><br> Arend Adler<br> Per bend azure and gules, a portative organ argent.<br> -- same concept<br><br> Katrina von dem Schwarzwald<br> Per bend azure and gules, in bend sinister a domestic cat sejant
<br> affronty and on a bend argent, three hearts palewise gules.<br> -- CD for addition of the bend + CD for putting charges on a<br> bend. Also CD for change of position of the cat + CD for<br> change of tincture of the cat.
<br><br> Rodrigo de Vargas<br> Per bend azure and gules, in pale three lions dormant Or.<br> -- CD for change of number + CD for change of posture<br><br>Nothing else. Therefore, any other possible conflict has at least one
<br>CD for the field tincture. That makes it easier to scan: henceforth,<br>I only have to find one CD from anything and I can go to the next.<br><br>Note: there are other ways to clear the above conflicts. Most of them
<br>are also clear by X.2, because they fit the necessary preconditions<br>and have substantial change of type. However, that requires more<br>thought: I have to check for no more than two types of charge directly<br>on the field and no overall charges. Personally, in this case I found
<br>it faster to count to two ("CD for number") and then scan for anything<br>catlike ("CD for type"). The key for bulk conflict checking is to<br>reject conflicts quickly and accurately.<br><br>Note: strewn charges (semy of whatever) count as a charge group.
<br>I think there was one in this set and several in the next. Since<br>that's addition of a charge group, I handled it silently above and<br>below.<br><br><br>Unfortunately for me, there's only one other thing that can be checked
<br>-- the cat. And there's LOTS of cats in the SCA. "Guardant" I<br>ignore, because head position on a beast is not a CD. So its<br>important attributes are<br>- one<br>- cat<br>- sejant<br>- Or<br>- in sinister chief
<br><br>Checking the on-line Ordinary, I see<br> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Couchant<br> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Passant<br> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Rampant<br> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Sejant<br> Beast - Cat - <other tinctures>
<br> Beast - Cat - <other numbers><br>so everything but the location (in sinister chief) get filtered first:<br>if any of them differ from your proposal, there's a CD for number,<br>type, posture, or tincture, depending.
<br> Beast - Cat - 1 - Or - Sejant<br>is the only category I open. 59 items -- sigh.<br><br>Looks like number is a quick eliminator now too. The easiest words<br>for me to scan for are "on", "within", "between", and "and".
<br>"Contourny" and "to sinister" are in some of these items too, and<br>they're the necessary second CD too (posture).<br><br> Mooneschadowe, Shire of<br> (Fieldless) A lion-dragon statant contourny Or.
<br> -- 1 CD for the field (as with all of these) +<br> 1 CD for change of type (half the charge changed)<br> Not sure what this is doing under "sejant".<br> No CD for location on the field: a fieldless badge has no
<br> location.<br><br> Leonessa des Belles Fleures<br> Azure, a winged lion sejant Or, beneath the forepaws two garden<br> roses argent, stalked and leaved proper.<br> -- 1 CD for the field + 1 CD for adding wings +
<br> 1 CD for position on the field.<br> Note: I don't know whether the roses are large enough to be<br> worth a CD. Another key to fast conflict-checking is going<br> for the easy CDs.<br><br>
Ariel of Glastonbury Tor<br> Gules, a winged lion sejant affronty Or.<br> -- same as Leonessa + 1 CD for posture (affronty)<br><br> Kathleen MacChluarain the Pure<br> Per chevron embattled azure and vert, a lion sejant Or langued
<br> gules orbed sable.<br> -- 1 CD for the field + 1 CD for the position on the field.<br> Armed, langued, orbed: not CDs (minor artistic details)<br><br> Michael Vladimir Gerewolf<br> Per pale ermine and counter-ermine, a three-headed cheetah sejant
<br> affronty, outer heads addorsed, Or.<br> -- *twitch*<br> same as Kathleen: field + position<br><br>I see nothing else, so it looks clear to me. But I'm somewhat rusty.<br><br>Dannet de Lincoln<br>--<br>
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