to understand a thing, like a bush.
is to understand the state of one or more attributes of a thing.
as the existence of a thing is defined by a cycle…
(and influenced by greater and lesser cycles of things)
…below can be used to gain an understanding of a thing over one or more cycles.
all units of measure can be converted to degrees.
by overlaying one or all of the following:
-a sine wave
-a circle
-a spiral
-a sphere
-a rotating pulse wave
then plotting the observed expressions on the above curves.
(or as radians as a previous anon noted, if one prefers)