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[UPDATE] Star Image 1
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Siege88
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Anonymous wrote:
Don't know if anyone noticed but there are 5 glyphs on the spinny thing.



I can't get a good enough screenshot of the other 4.


Yeah, there are 5, but the other 4 are greyed out right now. What's interesting is the orientation of the one highlighted glyph has the circle facing up, with the open space to the top-right. In StarImage1, the glyph is rotated counterclockwise one turn, so the open space is to the top-right. Time to rotate the image around anyone?


Edit: Can't post a pic, as I have to leave for work, but I rotated the StarImage1 picture 60 degrees clockwise (not sure if that's correct for a pentagon but looks about right) and it ends up looking like a section of a starmap, like there will be several more that are pieced together with it along the guidelines in Photoshop.

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 		Well okay

http://dave.stfu.ca/uploader/stored/StarImage1aligned.jpg

and for those who can't see guides

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How should I know? I don't really know what all that means. Wink

Sure it seems as if we are dealing with the end of the world and that sure sounded like THE end of the world to me.

But can it apply to the StarImage1?

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 		We have seen the guidelines. I have been rotating that pic around for hours. Flipping. Rotating. Transposing in on itself and everything else we have. It is labeled as "StarImage1" which would lead you to believe that there'll be atleast a "2".

I had imagined that we would get a second one with the same image as well as another image on it but a Star Map with multiple pieces sounds much better.

5 pieces though? How would that fit?

Probably only 4 with this one being the bottom right due to the placment and angle of the glyph.

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AngriBuddhist wrote:
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How should I know? I don't really know what all that means. Wink

Sure it seems as if we are dealing with the end of the world and that sure sounded like THE end of the world to me.

But can it apply to the StarImage1?


I looked at epsilon - based on the refernce to it in previous halo related material. this brought me to the star charts and hey presto.

But co-incidentially :-

July 17th Relevance?

Vega
In 1850, the Harvard Observatory (founded 1839) took the first photograph of a star. The observatory director, W.C. Bond and a Boston photographer J.A. Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega. A daguerreotype used a copper base with a thin film of polished silver sensitized by iodine vapors to form a thin yellow layer of silver iodide. After the photograph was taken, the plate was developed in a current of magnesium vapor at 75ºC, which adhered to the light-struck parts of the plate. The plate was then fixed in sodium thiosulfate, and rinsed. However, the astronomers could not be thrilled with the prospect of waiting hours and hours to get an image of a single star or nebula. Fortunately better photographic materials were later invented.

Olduvai Gorge
In 1959, Mary Leakey, the wife of Dr Louis Leakey, discovered the oldest human skull, a very significant find during nearly three decades of their lives dedicated to the careful exploration. The location was the Olduvai Gorge in the Serengeti Plains of Tanganyika (now Tanzania, East Africa). The skull is an almost complete cranium, with a brain size is about 530 cc. This was the first specimen of this species. Louis Leakey briefly considered this a human ancestor, but the claim was dropped when Homo habilis was found soon afterwards. The young male skull of Zinjanthropus boisei (the nutcracker man) has since been reclassified (1967) as Australopithecus boisei. It has has been accurately dated to 1.8 million years BC.

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 		Being a graphic designer, I decided to take a look at the image and see what I could garner from it.

Quite simply it looks to me like they were used just for the reason they are there to begin with-guidelines. Whoever has created the image has had a lower image with all the stars that they have created (Inverting it brings out much too crisp a picture to be a photo of stars or galaxies), and, using the guidelines, they've made 4 "boxes to place the symbol in. Thanks to a few simple small options, you can set it up that items will lock into place at certain points along guidelines (1/4, 1/3, 1/2, etc) and so the glyph has been put exactly in the middle of the bottom right box to be with the grouping of stars.

However, that isn't to say that what we're seeing here isn't part of some bigger picture. In fact, in all likeliness it is. Wether that picture be literal (More star pictures that fit together with guidelines) or or visual (There's a clue here, we just can't see it yet because we don't know what we're looking for), I don't doubt that this image has a bigger role to play at some level. Or to at least make a little more sense than a bunch of stars with a glyph.

However, to note is the one large difference between the SOTA glyph and the STAR glyph.



I think the one that the AR have might mean Containment. And the one on the star map means that containment has been broken.
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DM wrote:




I think the one that the AR have might mean Containment. And the one on the star map means that containment has been broken.



Could the symbol actually be a lock? And the change being the key?

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DM wrote:


I think the one that the AR have might mean Containment. And the one on the star map means that containment has been broken.


It might also differentiate between the Halo array in a dormant or active state.

Worth nothing that the same "open" form glyph appear on the Ark in the Halo 3 media reflected in the Master Chief's visor. In that shot, the Ark is opening, readying the firing sequence.

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 		Star Image 1
How many halos are there supposed to be? The new ring on the symbol might represent the location of 1/5 halos if there are indeed 5. Perhaps in relation to the new dot (star?) in the center. My memory of Halo facts is bad, but this is a fascinating thread. Sorry if I'm regurgitating old news.

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 		also the centre is now a dot rather than a empty circle

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 		Re: Star Image 1
Kurt_Rambis wrote:
How many halos are there supposed to be? The new ring on the symbol might represent the location of 1/5 halos if there are indeed 5. Perhaps in relation to the new dot (star?) in the center. My memory of Halo facts is bad, but this is a fascinating thread. Sorry if I'm regurgitating old news.


There are seven, of course. Wink

Perhaps not the Halo rings then, but planetary bodies? The spreading of seeds?

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 		a designer would not have used these guides to place anything, here is why:

Guides set at:

x=375 y=426

x=763.5 y=602.5


Image size 803px x 603px

Where Origin is top left hand corner. Why would you set a guide 0.5 pixals from the bottom of the image?

Also, not sure if this has been covered, but look at the top right hand corner of the image...? its not consistant with any other of the star shapes or types in the image. There seems to be the edge of a spherical glow estimated to be 15 times bigger than the biggest star in the image, with two pointed lines at 45 degree angles to verticle either side of it?

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 		from what I'm understanding the symbol is the symbol that I believe represents the structure on earth (the one that is reflecting off Master Chiefs visor while it was opening) is the symbol prehaps just showing the location of earth from some other location? (I'm quite certain there's no way to confirm this... us being earthlings and all... Wink )
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Anonymous wrote:
Fake edit: the white one is defiantly the one in the starmap. the other 4 I can't really tell that easily.


I hadn't noticed this until you said something, but there are four others, which makes a total of five symbols. I wonder if the symbols might be numbers of some kind. The one we're used to could be one (first symbol we saw) or five (server five was unlocked, iirc).

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 		Just out of interest, has anyone tried matching up or overlaying StarImage1 and the a-startile1.gif from the background of the SOTA site?

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