Ploidacot: Difference between revisions

Restore old intro. This isn't a scale naming system. Also try to clarify its relation to pergen
Pergen square -> pergen. The pergen square is said to be a visualization; this isn't. The pergen square is said to be JI-agnostic; this isn't. This depends on the JI subgroup -- the community is entertaining a different terminology for non-octave temps
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The '''ploidacot''' system is a classification of [[rank-2 temperament|rank-2]] [[regular temperament|temperaments]] based on how a temperament can be thought of as a union of copies of [[Pythagorean tuning]]. It is similar to the [[pergen]], and is a canonical naming scheme for [[pergen #Pergen squares|pergen squares]] in that every pergen square that covers both 2/1 and 3/2 has a unique name in the ploidacot system.
The '''ploidacot''' system is a classification of [[rank-2 temperament|rank-2]] [[regular temperament|temperaments]] based on how a temperament can be thought of as a union of copies of [[Pythagorean tuning]]. It is similar to the [[pergen]], and is a canonical naming scheme for pergens of rank-2 temperaments of the 2.3.… [[subgroup]] in that every such pergen corresponds to a unique name in the ploidacot system.


The ploidacot system was developed by [[Praveen Venkataramana]].
The ploidacot system was developed by [[Praveen Venkataramana]].