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libraryofbabel - 07-DEC-06 - Pathways

[BrianEnigma]

If anyone wants a video recording of the Flash (to make for easy pausing and stepping forward/backward), there's one here: http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/FirefoxScreenSnapz002.mov

I'm working on extracting out good stills of the paths. Edit: added.

[BrianEnigma]

So, the four lines:

L R
S D

Each go (using U=up R=right D=down L=Left):
L - L L D D L
R - R U U R R R U L
D - R D D D R D L
S - L L L L L L L L L (diagonal:dl)

[poozle]

Am I the only one who thinks this refers to number stings on the cards, 1, 2, 3 and 4 are directions and the .5 is the diagonal, I just don't know how to put this all together. It seems too coincidental thought that the last one is about the order of them, and this one is the meanings.

[drinkmonsters]

look at the key compared to key square on the map of perplexcity... follow out the number strings, and lets see where these journeys end.

[BrianEnigma]

It actually fits pretty well. The blocks are sort of differing lengths--for instance the lower-left line that goes out 9 spaces I thought didn't fit at first, but then realized one of the diagonal streets intersects a "regular sized" block and turns it into two smaller ones.

Significance? I don't know. Maybe the paths lead somewhere, or maybe this is just a primer for something else (similarities to the unknown number strings on the cards has come up in IRC.)

[drinkmonsters]

 

[marobashi]

It's very interesting.

[BrianEnigma]

Line Terminations

[marobashi]

[BrianEnigma]

To bring in some solving skills from this Perplexorum post:

[Ashin]

PXC never ceases to crack me up at this point. Without CT prodding us along inch by inch, we would never be solving any of this. I wonder if the original intent was to have us figure this out without any help. Just leave us with Wave 4 until someone found the cube (but I think it's pretty obvious without CT, the cube would probably never have been found).

As for this puzzle, I think all the number sequences may chain together off of each other around the map. Chances are there's only one chain that works off of each end point. Thus all the numbers would be used, and you would have a whole sequnce of stuff to work with after that.

[James Siegesmund]

[Agent Lex]

[Caol]

Hi guys, long time no see.

So, I was curious about something in this latest update that no one else seems to have mentioned. I noticed that throughout the animation, the key retains the ability to be clicked, though nothing obvious happens when you do so. As a last page in the animation, the key fades in the jumble of letters to the white box on a black background reading "Motion, held fast." and a rectangular area in the center is "clickable", even though the area clickable on the key was never rectangular. Do we perhaps still have something to find here?

I've included a picture of the last page with the rough area that can be clicked outlined.