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File:Lanfranc-canterbury-mandelbrot.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|[[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]].
File:Lanfranc-canterbury-mandelbrot.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|[[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]].
Rotoscope.png|Rotoscope upgraded to scrying engine.
Rotoscope.png|Rotoscope upgraded to scrying engine.
File:Hamangia-figures-Lorenz-attractor.jpg|Hamangia figurines computing the [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)]]. Computations are represented by yellow lines outside vitrine. Colored lines on figurines result from the monitoring process.
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.
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== The Patrick Device ==


[[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)]] has a built-in scrying engine which is reliable for simple calculations across a wide range of time and space.
The [[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes a simple display of the [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)]] using the statue of [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)]].
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== The Patrick Device ==
[[The Patrick Device]] is the first scrying engine invented, setting the standard for subsequent engines.
[[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.
[[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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Revision as of 06:57, 13 June 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.

In the News

  • Rotoscope upgraded to scrying engine.

    Rotoscope upgraded to scrying engine.

  • Hamangia figurines computing the Lorenz system (nonfiction). Computations are represented by yellow lines outside vitrine. Colored lines on figurines result from the monitoring process.

    Hamangia figurines computing the Lorenz system (nonfiction). Computations are represented by yellow lines outside vitrine. Colored lines on figurines result from the monitoring process.

  • Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to investigate the mysteries of creation.

    Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to investigate the mysteries of creation.

The Patrick Device

The Patrick Device is the first scrying engine invented, setting the standard for subsequent engines.

Lee and Turner color projector

John Brunner's custom engine.

John Brunner owns a Lee and Turner color projector which has been extensively custom modified for use as a scrying engine.

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."

The Rosenwald sheets

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

Gnomon algorithm

Scrying engines are assumed to use some form of the Gnomon algorithm for energy, control, etc.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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