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[[File:Thought_camera.jpg|thumb|Artist's depiction of a "Thought camera" (attributed to [[Nikolai Tesla]], but not necessarily informed by Tesla's actual inventions). This device is a precursor to modern scrying engines.]]A '''scrying engine''' is any [[engine]] which causes or facilitates [[scrying]].
[[File:Thought_camera.jpg|thumb|Artist's depiction of a "Thought camera" (attributed to [[Nikolai Tesla]], but not necessarily informed by Tesla's actual inventions). This device is a precursor to modern scrying engines.]]A '''scrying engine''' is any [[engine]] which causes or facilitates [[scrying]].


[[The Patrick Device]] is the first scrying engine invented, setting the standard for subsequent engines.
[[The Patrick Device]] is an early prototype scrying engine.  It set the standard for subsequent engines.
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[[John Brunner]] owns a Lee and Turner color projector which has been extensively custom modified for use as a scrying engine.  
[[John Brunner]] owns a Lee and Turner color projector which has been extensively custom modified for use as a scrying engine. Brunner has called it "the best bloody tool I ever bought."
 
The device uses [[Edward Turner]]’s original method for visualizing the [[Computational Human Phantom]] as successive frames on black and white film through red, green and blue filters and to project these sets of three frames superimposed through similar filters. Images are translated through red, green and blue filters into the scrying engine kernel at the rate of 16 pictures per second.
 
Brunner once called it "the best bloody tool I ever bought."
 
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The [[Rosenwald sheets]] function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a [[matrix (mathematics) (nonfiction)|matrix (nonfiction)]] for scrying routines.
The [[Rosenwald sheets]] function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a [[matrix (mathematics) (nonfiction)|matrix (nonfiction)]] for scrying routines.
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File:Hamangia-figures-Lorenz-attractor.jpg|link=Hamangia scrying engine|The [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]] computing the [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]].
File:Hamangia-figures-Lorenz-attractor.jpg|link=Hamangia scrying engine|The [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]] computing the [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]].
Brion_Gysin.jpg|Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to investigate the mysteries of creation.
Brion_Gysin.jpg|Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to investigate the mysteries of creation.
File:Universal Turing machine.svg|link=Universal Turing machine (nonfiction)|[[Universal Turing machine (nonfiction)|Universal Turing machine]] converted to scrying engine.
File:The Crystal Ball (John William Waterhouse, 1902).jpg|link=Scrying (nonfiction)|''The Crystal Ball'' by John William Waterhouse.  See [[Scrying (nonfiction)]].
File:The Crystal Ball (John William Waterhouse, 1902).jpg|link=Scrying (nonfiction)|''The Crystal Ball'' by John William Waterhouse.  See [[Scrying (nonfiction)]].
File:Universal Turing machine.svg|link=Universal Turing machine (nonfiction)|[[Universal Turing machine (nonfiction)|Universal Turing machine]] converted to scrying engine.
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Revision as of 23:10, 17 December 2016

Artist's depiction of a "Thought camera" (attributed to Nikolai Tesla, but not necessarily informed by Tesla's actual inventions). This device is a precursor to modern scrying engines.

A scrying engine is any engine which causes or facilitates scrying.

The Patrick Device is an early prototype scrying engine. It set the standard for subsequent engines.

John Brunner owns a Lee and Turner color projector which has been extensively custom modified for use as a scrying engine. Brunner has called it "the best bloody tool I ever bought."

The Rosenwald sheets function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a matrix (nonfiction) for scrying routines.

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