Welcome to TAMinations

TAMinations are the Square Dance animations of the Tam Twirlers Square Dance Club. Here you will find animations for calls from Mainstream through C3A. Most calls have several animations from different starting positions. TAMinations are written and maintained by Brad Christie, webmaster of the Tam Twirlers Square Dance Club.

For Square Dancers

• Detailed instructions on how to use TAMinations.
• What to do if you have problems.

For Webmasters

• How to link to the animations from your web site.
• How to download and run TAMinations locally.
• How to put TAMinations on your web site.

TAMinations Copyright 2012 by Brad Christie.
This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Affero license.

Call definitions Copyright by Callerlab Inc., The International Association of Square Dance Callers.

Recent Changes

2/3/2012	Add more animations for Vertical Tag.
2/2/2012	Add animations for examples of Twist and (Anything).
1/31/2012	Resize mobile animation for older devices to fit screen. Add more animations to Little. Add more animations for Tandem Concept.
1/28/2012	Fix scrolling on this page. Update dancer numbers on most Advanced and C-1 animations to match examples illustrated in definitions.
1/27/2012	Reprogrammed pages for mobile devices. Should look and work much better now. Some minor glitches remain, I will work on fixing them. Fix animations of Bend the Line from tidal formations.
1/23/2012	Fix animation for Explode and Roll. Add numbers display. Press the '#' button to number the dancers. For examples illustrated in the definitions, I'm working on making the numbers match the illustration. See Ping Pong Circulate for an example. This applies primarily to Advanced and Challenge levels, which have almost all the illustrated definitions.
1/18/2012	Update definitions for Wheel and Anything, Reverse Wheel and Anything, Little, and Plenty.
1/9/2012	Update definition and add animations for new examples for Transfer and Anything.
1/8/2012	Update definitions for Circle to a Line, Veer Left / Veer Right, Ladies Chain, and See Saw.
12/15/2011	Fix Stampede and add Left-Hand 3/4 Tag animation.
12/1/2011	Add more animations to Diamond Chain Thru. Fix Wheel Around.
11/21/2011	Fix links to Anything and Cross and Named Dancers Cross.
11/7/2011	Clarify Separate calls.
9/17/2011	Add more animations to Turn to a Line. Add concept animations to Peel to a Diamond and Trail to a Diamond.
9/12/2011	Add Acey Deucey from Trade By and Completed Double Pass Thru formations.
8/25/2011	Remove invalid animations from Sweep a Quarter.
8/21/2011	Add more animations to Peel Off.
8/20/2011	Add more animations to Once Removed Concept.
7/28/2011	Separate TAMinations for computers vs handhelds and let the user select which one from the home page rather than try to auto-detect. See the two buttons TAMINATIONS for Computers and TAMINATIONS for Mobile Devices on the home page.
7/16/2011	Add Hourglass Circulate from facing hourglasses. Add more formations and smooth out animations for Counter Rotate. Add some animations to Solid Concept
7/7/2011	Add T-Bone formations to Cross Over Circulate and Tally Ho.
6/8/2011	Fix Concentric Half Tag the Line
5/15/2011	Upgrade jQuery-UI to 1.8, fixes problem dragging the slider with IE 9.
4/25/2011	Fix handhold display for IE9. Also upgrade to JQuery 1.5 and now running local with IE9 works well.
3/30/2011	Correct Any Hand Remake. Add specific examples for Wheel And Anything.
3/23/2011	Correct Cross Over Circulate and Trade Circulate from left-hand waves.
3/19/2011	Add Peel Off and Roll
3/13/2011	Correct Peel Off from Left-Hand Box
2/28/2011	Add Any Hand Concept to Advanced.
2/21/2011	Correct Concentric Half Tag
2/8/2011	Add Walk and Dodge from T-Bones.
2/1/2011	For iPhone users: The name of the call is now at the top of the animation. Click on it to show the definition, or select hex or bi-gon variations.
1/22/2011	Add Spin Chain the Gears from a Tidal Wave and Two-Faced Lines.
1/15/2011	Correct Butterfly Pass In and Concentric Linear Cycle.
12/6/2010	Enabled a simplified interface for iPhone and iPod Touch. It should also work for other smartphones such as Android with browsers that can handle SVG and JavaScript. Note that this is just another web interface, not an "app". You need to be connected to the web, either through the iPhone data connection or a Wi-Fi connection. The animation is not as smooth as on a desktop or laptop, if you find it too jerky try running at the "Slow" speed.
12/4/2010	Move tips to TAMinator quotes
12/3/2010	Update C-2 calls with the 2010 changes from Callerlab.
11/30/2010	Update C-1 calls with the 2010 changes from Callerlab. Butterfly calls are now listed under Butterfly Formation / Concept, likewise O calls under O Formation / Concept.
11/25/2010	Add All 4 Couples Turn Thru and All 8 Veer Left, Walk and Dodge, and Zoom
11/16/2010	Add Left Grand Quarter Thru and Left Grand Three-Quarter Thru.
11/15/2010	Update Mainstream definitions to the Callerlab March 17 2010 version.
11/14/2010	Add Named Dancers Cross and update the definition for Anything and Cross.
11/12/2010	Add Heads Wheel Thru and Left Wheel Thru.
11/11/2010	Enabled SVG for IE9 beta, looks ok except for handholds. Minor fixes for SVG popup menu, bi-gon display. Now you can right-click to get the SVG popup.
11/9/2010	Mouse wheel now scrolls the SVG animation. Give it a try!
11/8/2010	Grid now works with Bi-gons
11/7/2010	Replaced Hex button with Paths button, moving Hex to the right-click SVG menu. Add Bi-gon animations (SVG only), also available from the right-click menu.
11/3/2010	Correct Crossfire from inverted lines.
10/29/2010	Add difficulty ratings to Plus calls.
10/28/2010	Add some difficult T-Bone formations to Chase Right
10/26/2010	Add more formations to Boys Trade and Girls Trade.
10/25/2010	Add more formations and difficulty ratings to Crossfire
10/24/2010	Add Acey Deucey from 3/4 Tag
10/23/2010	Adjust SVG handhold calculation to fix Circle to a Line Add more variations to Circle By
10/21/2010	Fix As Couples Bounce the Ends
10/19/2010	Add difficulty ratings to many Mainstream calls.
10/1/2010	Add Motivate from Completed Double Pass Thru Add Right Roll to a Wave Three Times
9/30/2010	Add Circulate from Trade By and Completed Double Pass Thru.
9/16/2010	Add Flutterwheel and Roll and Reverse Flutterwheel and Roll
9/11/2010	Restore missing call The Gamut to the C3A menu
8/29/2010	Fix direct linking to some calls.
8/21/2010	Fix Centers Cast Off 3/4 from Left-Hand Wave
8/19/2010	Add Right-Hand Wave and Left-Hand Wave to formations for Cast Off 3/4.
7/8/2010	Add Boys Face your Partner, Grand Square
6/25/2010	Fix file name for O circulate.
6/8/2010	Add Sashayed Couples and Lines to Star Thru and Slide Thru.
6/5/2010	Add special features Barstool and Compass to SVG animations. Access by shift-clicking on a dancer.
5/6/2010	Add variations to Step and Fold
5/4/2010	Add Load the Boat from a wave between mini-waves Smooth out Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears and add variation turning the star a full turn.
4/24/2010	Show dancer path by clicking on the dancer. SVG only.
4/20/2010	SVG Path display now working.
4/17/2010	Handholds for SVG now working. Path display yet to do.
3/23/2010	Add Horseshoe Turn from 3/4 Tag Add Heads Spin the Top
3/22/2010	Add more examples to Partner Tag
3/20/2010	Added Split Circulate from Completed Double Pass Thru
3/16/2010	Add more examples to Separate.
3/5/2010	Fix text display on How to Use page, and updated for the SVG animation.
3/4/2010	Corrected Slide Thru at end of Scoot and Cross Ramble
1/25/2010	Corrected Cross Ramble and Scoot and Cross Ramble
1/21/2010	Added Left Roll to a Wave from Two-Faced Lines
1/19/2010	Corrected 1/4 Mix and 3/4 Mix from Right-Hand Columns
1/18/2010	Added Right Roll to a Wave from Two-Faced Lines
1/17/2010	Added Left Pass and Roll