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[eccramer]

[INFO] Starimage2 overlayed

[skybruin]

Yes but should they be? i mean what if you use the guide lines and stars in each image to see if they fit side by side, And this is being discussed in the other thread we need to house keep a bit.

[Awhite2490]

I posted an overlay I did in the Server 2 unlocked thread.
If you line up the photoshop guidelines on the two images, the glyphs overlay exactly.

[eccramer]

[srsizzy]

Can we change this into a StarImage02 thread? We don't have one.

Anyways, I wanted to point out that the glyphs are backwards on both star images. They should be facing he other direction. There might be a reason for this.

Also, I'm guessing that they are the positions of the Halos.

[MariusDarkwolf]

Here's one I did, not sure of the opacity, but its a pretty good overlap. If anyone wants to try something a little different, let me know.




Edit: Here's another one, that's just img 2 overlayed on img 1 with blend set to lighten, and at only 80 opacity

[LordC]

basic stuff first

[Arashi]

Is it possible (I'm suggesting, not telling) that the star maps are actually time lapse? Basically, I'm suggesting that they are pictures of the night sky taken from some point on Earth (or somewhere) over a period of time.

[LordC]

help.

[Siege88]

I believe it's already been proven that the starmaps (or the first one, at least) have sections copy/pasted and flipped or rotated to help them fill the space up with stars quicker. I forget the exact post, but I think it was on args.bungie.org somewhere. You can definitely see that some parts of starmap1 were reused in other parts of the image. That doesn't necessarily mean that it won't still overlay somehow with starmap2, but I think it they really intended for them to overlap they would have been more careful about the star placement.
My guess is they're meant to be placed next to each other and may eventually map out to something similar to the spectrograph image, with Sol at the center or something like that, but I haven't really looked at them yet.

[coloneloneill]

did anyone notice

[J2G]

So, i have been away for a while, and some things have happened, developments have been made, and this thread seems to have died a death... is there some other place this is being discussed? cos i couldn't find anywhere.

So, i have recreated what LordC had done but not managed to upload (TIFF's are not very web friendly) so i have created a GIF.

It shows all the elements unique to StarImage1 in RED, all elements unique to StarImage2 in BLUE, and all elements common to both images in GREEN. Although, there doesn't seem to be any hidden image or any meaning what-so-ever, apart from to show us that the stars in this area of space have changed between the two images.

The other thing that has changed, is the glyph. and it is in the same place on both images. This means that the glyph doesn't nesseceraly represent a location (since it would be the same in both if it did) but it seems to represent time, some sort of long count calendar made by the acients. See details on the Mayan Long count calendar here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#Long_Count

(I know there is already speculation about it linking to lunar phases, but i think it deals with longer time periods than a month.)

Imagine that each level or ring (or part ring) represents a different scale of time, in the same way as we have seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years.

Now exactly what it counts and how, i am not sure. Its hard to tell which image is the more recent, so i cant tell if the glyph is counting up or down. Also, for the Stars to move/disappear to tht level "naturlly" would take millions of years, but it makes no sense to have the glyphs outer most unit counting in millions of years.. so maybe all these stars were destroyed un-naturally.

I probably need to see more glyphs, and certainly more StarImage's to make a proper assumption.

(am searching ALL glyphs now to find a pattern to support my theory)

Any thoughts?