Why Square Form looks Robotic

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvaXibEWIm8 "Robotic Tai Chi" Link. Why Classical Tai Chi Square Form looks "Robotic": Look deeper than the solid and broken I Ching lines in the diagram below. Note the points inside the circle below where straight lines actually touch the circle and voila we have eight, ( 8 ) straight lines, which is an Octagon. Now geometry tells us we can make those straight lines VERY small and have many POINTS. Note how the "roboticness" disappears as the number of straight lines increases we cannot see them anymore and yet a very nice circle results. Here's a link to a "Triacontagon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triacontagon where you can still see 30 straight lines and points making a circle. Here is a Chiliagon with 1000 sides making the circle which of course you cannot see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiliagon. The example of a chiliagon is also referenced by philosophers. David Hume points out that it is "impossible for the eye to determine the angles of a chiliagon to be equal to 1996 right angles, or make any conjecture, that approaches this proportion." When we do the small circle, small frame square form as you see in the misunderstood "Robotic Tai Chi" video link, those become very small straight lines. In fact, the more robotic the better. It gets very small straight lines, think things like 64, 128, to make the circle. How many there are depends on the skill of the practitioner. Yes, it also gives us more points on the circle and those points are where the form changes directions. Think of the possibilities as far as the martial application is concerned if you can change direction so fluidly going to a plethora of tight angles so well. Do you see all of the articulations at the joints, shoulders, elbows, knees, hips, etc? All of those articulations result in the extremities, arms, legs, etc. moving in straight lines from POINTS of articulation. Is this not seeking the straight from the curved and the curved from the straight as well? Just as the Tai Chi Classics say.