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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]].
== In the News ==
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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.
File:Lanfranc-canterbury-mandelbrot.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|[[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]].
Rotoscope.png|link=Don Tasmian|Artist-researcher [[Don Tasmian]] converts Rotoscope to scrying engine.
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.
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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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== Lee and Turner color projector ==


[[File:Lee and Turner color projector 1902.jpg|thumb|200px|[[John Brunner]]'s custom engine.]]
[[File:Lee and Turner color projector 1902.jpg|thumb|200px|[[John Brunner]]'s custom engine.]]
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== The Rosenwald sheets ==
The [[Rosenwald sheets]] function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a [[matrix (mathematics) (nonfiction)|matrix (nonfiction)]] for scrying routines.
 
== In the News ==


The [[Rosenwald sheets]] function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a [[matrix (mathematics) (nonfiction)|matrix (nonfiction)]] for scrying routines.
<gallery mode="traditional">
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.
File:Lanfranc-canterbury-mandelbrot.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|[[Canterbury scrying engine]] computes [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]].
Rotoscope.png|link=Don Tasmian|Artist-researcher [[Don Tasmian]] converts Rotoscope to scrying engine.
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.
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==

Revision as of 18:31, 23 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.

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

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

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference