The Grid

The Kinetic Alphabet is based on a 4-point grid.

The Kinetic Alphabet is based on a 4-point grid. There are two 4-point grids: box mode and diamond mode. This guide is written in diamond, but everything translates to box. On this grid, there are three types of points:

Two hands on the diamond grid: blue at west, red at east.

The center point is the hub that everything revolves around. The four hand points are halfway between the center point and the outer points. The outer points depict the outer edges of the grid.

Together, diamond and box form an 8-point grid:

Diamond
Diamond
Box
Box
8-point grid
8-point grid

We’ll use diamond mode to learn each concept.