Tassel Hassle: Outflows That Curl and Subdivide

Dr. Steven B Halls | November 2025

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2025-11-21 - view original post.

Tassle hassle. In 2023 I thought tassles were an outflow symbol. Today the examples are also outflows. But in Feb 2025 I was swayed by the "little lines" symbol being a marker of high-density and often flowing toward the core, which would be an upward inflow when the tassle is below the waist. https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/little-lines/

Tassels read as outflows, though earlier work treated the little lines symbol as a high-density marker flowing toward the core. Studying flux tubes that end and spill wavy flow, sometimes forming subdividing new smaller tubes, explains the tassels better, and some tassels may still flow upward toward the waist.

I also called image E's tassles an upward flow in February, but now I think I was wrong about that. Recently I've been studying examples like image G, I and J where flux tubes come to an end and wavy flow comes out and sometimes forms subdividing new smaller flux tubes. This pattern makes more sense to explain image E's tassles, and the other examples I'm showing. Flow that expands and then wants to curl up and disappear after exiting its flux tube. I have a tassle collection, https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/tassels/ and I'm not discarding the idea that some of them flow up upward toward the waist or horizontal plane. Perhaps the ones that aren't wavy. Needs more study.

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