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LordC
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 		Image within image
Using the black version of the images above, I see something worth discussing:

The new AR call-icon pattern is within the "Iris" on the right, but that pattern is also blown up as the "overlay" around the entire image.

The status indicator at the lower left corner of the jpg is the solid bar on the bottom left of the Iris pattern to the right.

I first thought I was looking at a sort of player frame, with a health or ammo indicator at the bottom, and then noticed the same thing within the iris on the right.

Not sure if it means anything, but may imply that we're looking at a blow-up of the image on the right. I'm thinking that thing is a souped-up monitor, and that the background image is that same monitor, but implying rampancy or something.
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 		Re: Image within image
LordC wrote:
Using the black version of the images above, I see something worth discussing:

The new AR call-icon pattern is within the "Iris" on the right, but that pattern is also blown up as the "overlay" around the entire image.

The status indicator at the lower left corner of the jpg is the solid bar on the bottom left of the Iris pattern to the right.

I first thought I was looking at a sort of player frame, with a health or ammo indicator at the bottom, and then noticed the same thing within the iris on the right.

Not sure if it means anything, but may imply that we're looking at a blow-up of the image on the right. I'm thinking that thing is a souped-up monitor, and that the background image is that same monitor, but implying rampancy or something.



Yeah, I noticed that too. I hadn't thought about the rampancy aspect, but I did pick up that the background was a close up version of the iris/monitor on the right.

I believe we're actually looking at 4 different images layered over each other.

1. The iris symbol.
2. The iris/monitor on the right.
3. A close up of the iris/monitor on the right as a background
4. A flash of light as a background.

I think the flash of light is a separate image because it is off center to the close up image of the iris/monitor. It's centered in the total image, but not in the circle of the iris/monitor.

I'm not sure what all of this means, but because the iris symbol is a separate image, I believe it's the clue to our next step.

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 		I've been staring at the cycle response picture for a while and I think I may have found a correlation to terminal.

The cycle respone picture has two different images of the earth on the left and right side with a graphic of the moon phases and the sun in the center and above the two earths.

In terminal, there are two images left and right with a central flash of light and a larger background.

So maybe the images are of the same thing? The iris symbol and the monitor on the left and irght of the Terminal.jpg are the same and represent the earth. And the flash of light represents the sun in the middle.

I also thought it was interesting they used the word cycle. There is a lunar eclipse coming on August 28th.

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 		the top central diagram in terminal.jpg isn't moon phases... or at least, it's not the moon around the earth. The central sphere is a light source, the surrounding object is receiving the light... so the obvious interpretation is the earth around the sun. It can't be the moon around the earth unless it's not a representation of light and face (most unlikely). It could in theory be any celestial body orbiting a star, but given its context, it's almost certainly the earth around the sun.

But we shall see... IF there's more to come *tsk*
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thebruce wrote:
the top central diagram in terminal.jpg isn't moon phases... or at least, it's not the moon around the earth. The central sphere is a light source, the surrounding object is receiving the light... so the obvious interpretation is the earth around the sun. It can't be the moon around the earth unless it's not a representation of light and face (most unlikely). It could in theory be any celestial body orbiting a star, but given its context, it's almost certainly the earth around the sun.

But we shall see... IF there's more to come *tsk*


I see the central object as the sun, and the object rotating around it as the moon.

The bottom phase where the moon is below the sun is dark, because it's between the sun and the earth and it would be dark.

Of course now that I think about it, the moon doesn't really rotate around the sun, or at least not in the way as represented here. But the earth doesn't rotate around the sun like this either.

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 		uh, how does the earth rotate around the sun then? Barring the obvious 'diagram' alterations in that the earth is definitely not 3x the size of the sun, nor that close to the sun, nor in a perfectly circular orbit...

it's the most accurate explanation, ahead of a lunar orbit diagram...

also, we've had lunar orbit examples in previous servers. This image is entirely earth-focused. I don't believe there's any reason to think it's depicting something related to the moon here.

but as I said, we'll hopefully see, and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong Razz
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 		how may overlays?
Well, if we go with the close-up of the Iris frame, the hex grid and the crystalline pattern (not crystal-based, but best way I could describe it) may denote the "eye-ball receptor grid, similar to a retinal scan, but a scan of a bionic eye.

Also, the Iris on the right seems to have floated out of a horizontal socket of sorts - just a bit too small for this Iris to fit through.

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thebruce wrote:
uh, how does the earth rotate around the sun then? Barring the obvious 'diagram' alterations in that the earth is definitely not 3x the size of the sun, nor that close to the sun, nor in a perfectly circular orbit...

it's the most accurate explanation, ahead of a lunar orbit diagram...

also, we've had lunar orbit examples in previous servers. This image is entirely earth-focused. I don't believe there's any reason to think it's depicting something related to the moon here.

but as I said, we'll hopefully see, and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong Razz


Smile I think the problem I'm having is the shading. If it's the earth, then the shading wouldn't matter because the earth spins as it orbits around the sun. So at the four different positions, it could really be light or dark.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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 		i think it has AR's image and what looks like a monitor for a reason. to show that AR is the monitor/facilitator of the ark.

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grey101 wrote:
i think it has AR's image and what looks like a monitor for a reason. to show that AR is the monitor/facilitator of the ark.


The glyph? Yeah, I've heard that tossed out before. Could be.

I wonder what the glyph meant...

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KLind wrote:
grey101 wrote:
i think it has AR's image and what looks like a monitor for a reason. to show that AR is the monitor/facilitator of the ark.


The glyph? Yeah, I've heard that tossed out before. Could be.

I wonder what the glyph meant...
same here,it's in every server and in alot of other places

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