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[UPDATE] Scarlett Kite - 13 Sept 06 - Squiggle-squiggle
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] Scarlett Kite - 13 Sept 06 - Squiggle-squiggle
http://www.thescarletkite.com/archives/2006/09/squigglesquiggl.html

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Well, as I suddenly have nothing at all better to do with my time, I've been staring at those funny lines on my key all day and pretending it's a legitimate assignment in Historic Logic Patterns or something Smile Good practice, really, and a much more memorable way to learn about it than reading some dull old tract on how "multiple perspectives and repeating patterns or themes were a hallmark of early-AC Perplexian puzzle design." Maybe I'm better off with this independent course of study after all!

So I'm going over what we know about the puzzle, and it seems to be directing us toward a specific place, so it would make sense that it's some sort of, well, map, right? A map to a place than Anthony Granier wanted his children to know about. I get the feeling from his letter that it isn't even a place in the city, to be honest, or else why would he have been away from his children at all?

I did get a good thought from Anji Petrizzo, who said it might be a skyline seen from a lighthouse in the picture. I think there has to be something to that, though I do have some qualms. The city was under very heavy construction at that time - Granier couldn't have known what roofs would be there even a few months after he died. So it must refer to something more permanent than the roofs of buildings. Also, there seem to be many traces - maybe it's views of permanent natural features taken from several different vantage points?


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 		So that is what all the references to the Ascendancy Point were about? To make us think of the skyline?

I do think that starting from the lighthouse makes sense, why doesn't Scarlett go there? Also, she knows about the Granier diary doesn't she? So why doesn't she just guess it must be someplace in Viendebourg?
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I get the feeling from his letter that it isn't even a place in the city, to be honest, or else why would he have been away from his children at all?


Could this mean that Grainer has info on the portal to earth? Perhaps the "experiments" he talks about in his diary refer to the completion of the portal. If he was in the third power, they could have used his research to open their portal. Unlikely, but just a thought.

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 		Has anyone considered tomography? If each trace corresponded to one of twelve positions around an object, with high representing "light passes" and low "light blocked" (or vice versa), then you could get a reasonable 2d slice...

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 		Spooky Coincidence
Hi all....first post, so be gentle.

The diagram looks spectacularly similar to a page in "Cryptonomicon" where it is described as the trace you might get if you stick a lamp on someones head and then watch the light as they walk in a line through a city (the kerbs providing the up and down movement).

In the book, the suggestion is made that you might be able to build a map of the city if you get enough traces and have a suitably gagrantuan brain to work out which roads are involved!

The coincidence is that I read this page just yeasterday!!

Martin

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 		Oops
Just found the puzzle thread with my suggestion in it (just days earlier!!)

Trout away.

Martin

PS Yeasterday is obviously a Freudian slip - meaning a previous occasion on which I had beer Smile

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 		Re: Spooky Coincidence
martinp wrote:
Hi all....first post, so be gentle.

The diagram looks spectacularly similar to a page in "Cryptonomicon" where it is described as the trace you might get if you stick a lamp on someones head and then watch the light as they walk in a line through a city (the kerbs providing the up and down movement).

In the book, the suggestion is made that you might be able to build a map of the city if you get enough traces and have a suitably gagrantuan brain to work out which roads are involved!

The coincidence is that I read this page just yeasterday!!

Martin


Kind of a little troutworthy, in that it's been pointed out by a few people already - but still a really good catch. Smile And nice coincidence, also.

EDIT: Whoops, you already found it. Trout is nice, though. I caught one once, and screamed a lot and hit it with a stick. But it tastes good. <3
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 		sorry if im repeating stuff.
Scarlett wrote that it should be something more permanent, has anyone thought of a mountain range.

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charcoaldragon wrote:
sorry if im repeating stuff.
Scarlett wrote that it should be something more permanent, has anyone thought of a mountain range.


Welcome to the boards, fellow Aussie. Wink Watch out, UK, we're spawning.

But yeah, it has been considered. Smile There's a few threads around discussing this, because we're messy people, but if you go to the Puzzles forum, there's a post there that should have most of the suggestions so far. Give that a readthrough, maybe? Smile
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