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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 [[Nikola 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]].


== In the News ==
[[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. Brunner has called it "the best bloody tool I ever bought."
Rotoscope.png|Rotoscope upgraded to scrying engine.
Brion_Gysin.jpg|Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to investigate the mysteries of creation.
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== The Patrick Device ==
The [[Rosenwald sheets]] function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a [[Diagramaceous soil matrix]] for scrying routines.
[[The Patrick Device]] is the first scrying engine invented, setting the standard for subsequent engines.
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== Hamangia scrying engines ==
[[File:Hamangia-figures-Lorenz-attractor.jpg|thumb|Hamangia figurines computing the Lorenz system. The computations are represented by the yellow lines, outside the vitrine. The colored lines on the figurines themselves result from the monitoring process.]]


The Hamangia culture invented a variety of primitive yet surprisingly powerful scrying engine techniques.
== In the News ==


[[John Brunner]] has speculated that the figures deliberately arranged to have themselves placed in the museum, for their own unknown reasons.
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File:CERN_Scrying_Engine_-_Rick's_Monkey.jpg|Rick's Monkey pre-visualized by CERN scrying engine.


== Lee and Turner color projector ==
File:Scrying_Engine_with_CCRU_Spinal_Module.png|link=CCRU scrying engine module|Typical 1922-era scrying engine with [[CCRU scrying engine module|CCRU Modulem, visualizing the CCRU Spinal Diagram]].


[[File:Lee and Turner color projector 1902.jpg|thumb|200px|[[John Brunner]]'s custom engine.]]
File:San Pietro scrying engine.png|link=San Pietro scrying engine|July 12, 2017: The [[San Pietro scrying engine]], among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process [[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.


[[John Brunner]] owns a Lee and Turner color projector which has been extensively custom modified for use as a scrying engine.  
File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|August 13, 1897: Inventor, engineer, and crime-fighter [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] gives a public demonstration of his latest invention, a surveying instrument which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] principles to detect and neutralize the effects of hostile [[scrying engines]].


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.
File:Charles-Émile Reynaud.jpg|link=Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|January 8, 1890: Scientist, inventor, and [[APTO]] marketing director [[Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|Charles-Émile Reynaud]] discovers a previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] function which causes a Praxinoscope to function as a simple scrying engine.


Brunner once called it "the best bloody tool I ever bought."
File:Johann Heinrich Lambert.jpg|link=Johann Heinrich Lambert (nonfiction)|September 4, 1769: Polymath and crime-fighter [[Johann Heinrich Lambert (nonfiction)|Johann Heinrich Lambert]] discovers new type of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which convert map projections into optical projections. These projections will quickly find applications in scrying engine technology.


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File:Reinerus Frisius Gemma, by Maarten van Heemskerck.jpg|link=Gemma Frisius (nonfiction)|May 24, 1540: Physician, [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist, and cartographer [[Gemma Frisius (nonfiction)|Gemma Frisius]] invents a new type of astrolabe which functions as a scrying engine.


== Canterbury scrying engine ==
File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|Inventor [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] demonstrates his "lenticular stereoscope" (the first portable, 3D viewing device), predicting that it will find widespread use in scrying engines.


[[File:Lanfranc-canterbury-mandelbrot.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Canterbury scrying engine]]]]
File:John Brunner's Lee and Turner engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|Crime-fighter [[John Brunner]] uses a modified Lee and Turner engine.


[[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)]] has a built-in scrying engine which is reliable for simple calculations across a wide range of time and space.
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|[[Diagramaceous soil]] yields new variety of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|Bingo algorithm]], useful as clarifying agent in wager-based scrying engines.


The [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes a simple display of the [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)]] using the statue of [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)]].
File:Lanfranc-canterbury-mandelbrot.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|[[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]].
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== The Rosenwald sheets ==
File:Don Tasmian calibrating a Rotoscope scrying engine.png|link=Don Tasmian|Artist-researcher [[Don Tasmian]] converts Rotoscope to scrying engine.


The [[Rosenwald sheets]] function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a [[matrix (mathematics) (nonfiction)|matrix (nonfiction)]] for scrying routines.
File:Hamangia-figures-Lorenz-attractor.jpg|link=Hamangia scrying engine|The [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]] computing the [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]].


== Gnomon algorithm ==
Brion_Gysin.jpg|Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to investigate the mysteries of creation.


Scrying engines are assumed to use some form of the [[Gnomon algorithm]] for energy, control, etc.
File:Universal Turing machine.svg|link=Universal Turing machine (nonfiction)|[[Universal Turing machine (nonfiction)|Universal Turing machine]] converted to scrying engine.


== Universal Turing machines ==
File:The Crystal Ball (John William Waterhouse, 1902).jpg|link=Scrying (nonfiction)|''The Crystal Ball'' by John William Waterhouse. See [[Scrying (nonfiction)]].
 
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[[File:Universal Turing machine.svg|thumb|A [[Universal Turing machine]] '''U'''. '''U''' consists of a set of instructions in the table that can “execute” the correctly-formulated “code number” of any arbitrary Turing machine '''M''' on its tape. In some models, the head shuttles back and forth between various regions on the tape. In other models the head shuttles the tape back and forth.]]Scrying engines are closely related to [[Universal Turing machines]].
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Diagramaceous soil]]
* [[Glass-Darkly scrying engine]] - a brand of scrying engine, popular among [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorists
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Phanerogram]] - a [[Gnomon algorithm]] function used in scrying engines as a [[Sigil (nonfiction)|sigil]] visualizer.
* [[Scrylmn]] - a film created using one or more [[scrying engines]] in any of various capacities. Most scrylmns are either [[Documentary film (nonfiction)|documentary films]] or experimental works such as ''[[The Mandalorian Dog]]''.
* [[The Patrick Device]]
* [[The Patrick Device]]
* [[Tiresian blue]] - a shade of the color blue which is commonly associated with prophecy and fortune-telling.
* [[Wave scrying]] - the [[Scrying (nonfiction)|scrying]] of waves, typically large bodies of water
** TO_DO : investigate possibility of [[Wave scrying]] in liquid region of [[Jupiter (planet) (nonfiction)|Jupiter]];  Red Spot focus?


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

Latest revision as of 08:06, 5 February 2024

Artist's depiction of a "Thought camera" (attributed to Nikola 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 Diagramaceous soil matrix for scrying routines.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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