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[UPDATE] Path of Least Time - 15 Sept 06 - The Archipelago
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] Path of Least Time - 15 Sept 06 - The Archipelago
http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html

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The Archipelago
Friday, September 15 2006, 05:37 PM

The puzzle that Violet gave me on Thursday was definitely an interesting one, and it ended up diverting me away from work for a fair while (I told Garnet that I was 'brainstorming network topologies'), but ultimately not that difficult to solve once I knew the problem. It seems like you guys were getting close in the idea that the lines wrapped around 360 degrees and represented the horizon or sightlines, but really for me to find out which was right was to try them by hand.

To cut a long story short (which I am not usually wont to do), based on the various clues from Granier's letter, I decided that the lines were individual wraparound views, with the blocks representing some sort of major visual features. Since there appeared to be interesting and conserved patterns across the lines, I assumed that each line was viewing the visual features from a different - but nearby - perspective. Thus, each trace was a map of the horizon from a particular location.

After lots and lots of moving bits of paper around, I found one particular configuration of the traces where they all 'agreed' with each other. It was fairly simple to place the traces which were obviously off to 'one side', such as the fifth, sixth, eigth and ninth, but filling in the middle was much trickier. Luckily, the traces were all drawn to a high degree of accuracy so it was still doable. In any case, after I'd done most of them, I recognised the location of the visual features to mirror that of the Lancewood Archipelago, a fairly famous set of islands in the east.

What someone - probably Granier - had obviously done was to stand on a high vantage point on each of the islands. He then drew a trace that went 360 degrees, starting at north, with bumps to represent those directions in which his line of sight was obscured by the other islands. I don't know exactly why he did this - it must have taken him a while - but then again I suppose there wasn't much else to do there back 300 years ago.

The interesting thing is that the puzzle pinpointed a particular island in the archipelago. I'm going to leave that as an exercise for the reader to work out, but suffice to say that Scarlett and Violet have one particular place to go out of all the islands there.

As for Special Project 487, I found something interesting. Not information, but rather, a lack of it. When I conducted another search using the same parameters in my last post, the results changed. They're not supposed to do that. Someone, or something, is monitoring searches including that term.


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 		huh?
so we couldn't have solved this anyway? So what was the point? Confused
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 		Re: huh?
rose wrote:
so we couldn't have solved this anyway? So what was the point? Confused


I guess we were supposed to get a teeny bit closer - working out that each was the view from a different point and that they meshed nicely. But..hm. Ah, well - we were close? Smile
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 		Re: huh?
rose wrote:
so we couldn't have solved this anyway? So what was the point? Confused


Well, it got the grey cells going, and as Achenar says, we got close.

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As for Special Project 487, I found something interesting. Not information, but rather, a lack of it. When I conducted another search using the same parameters in my last post, the results changed. They're not supposed to do that. Someone, or something, is monitoring searches including that term.


Hmm... is it possible to find out who would be monitoring those searches? potentially in a roundabout way so that it doesn't trigger any red flags? Because the only ones who would monitor those searches are those with a vested interest in hiding it. The catch is, following the trail before it becomes impossible to find.
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 		Sigh,

Rule number one when trying to do anything covertly: Never EVER check the box that says "Send anonymous usage statistics to Microsoft"...

What? You mean to tell me we've known about Perplex City for two years and Microsoft still hasn't gotten their foot in the door yet?

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