thank you, that does explain a lot, very good description. i have never heard of this anywhere else before so it would be interesting to test, i don't know if it would work... but testing will determine.
if you were to take a single loop of wire and cover it in soap to make a bubble-film-layer, then the magnetic flux through the loop would go through one layer of bubble-film, meaning 1 turn, if you had two loops, the bubble-film would make 2 layers, for 2 turns, and if you had 100 loops, the magnetic flux would travel through 100 layers of bubble film for 100 turns... this is the concept of how the flux works and how 'turns' work, if you were to imagine a surface like bubble-film connecting all the loops, each layer through the coil increases the effect by so much.
so if you were to wrap a coil around a playing card, or piece of cardboard from a cereal box, and then wrap that around the primary bobbin cavity in the VIC, then all your bubble-layers would be in the center of the coil where the cardboard is, like a tall thin toroid, and your turns would count as the wraps around this cardboard, and yours flux path would be inside the coil... like a tall thin toroid... so how would this interact with the other coils?
all i can say is it is very interesting, and i hope a few of you try it, i'll try it when i get to that stage
