A fashioned edge at 1 wales in 2 courses
A knitted panel narrowing by 1 wale every 2 courses, drawn at the fabric's own aspect: a wale is 1.2791 times as wide as a course is tall, which is Munden's ratio of the two published constants. The edge therefore stands at 32.60 degrees from the wale, and that angle is the same in every yarn, at every gauge and at every loop length. Marks show where the 11 transfers fall.
2 essays call
shaped-panel. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every
call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever
member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the weave its essay
argues about.
Where it is called
Changing this generator changes every one of these figures.
Knits and other structures
A fashioned edge has a quantised angle
A knitted panel is shaped by transferring loops, so its edge steps by whole wales at whole courses and its angle is the arctangent of a fraction. The available angles turn out to be the same for every plain knit there has ever been — in any yarn, at any gauge, at any loop length — because the constant they scale by cancels the loop out. There are eighteen of them, and 16.67° between the last two.
Knits and other structures
A tube can only be shaped by its loop
On a circular machine the needle count is the cylinder, so a seamless tube's circumference is its wale count times its wale spacing — and the wale spacing is the loop length over one constant. The loop is the only free quantity, the yarn bounds it at both ends, and what is left is a taper of 18.8 per cent bought at the price of a fabric half again as dense.