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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]].


[[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.
The [[Rosenwald sheets]] function as rudimentary scrying engine, apparently providing a [[Diagramaceous soil matrix]] for scrying routines.


Brunner once called it "the best bloody tool I ever bought."
== In the News ==
 
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File:CERN_Scrying_Engine_-_Rick's_Monkey.jpg|Rick's Monkey pre-visualized by CERN scrying engine.
 
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: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.
 
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]].
 
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.


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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.


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


== In the News ==
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.


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File:John Brunner's Lee and Turner engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|Crime-fighter [[John Brunner]] uses a modified Lee and Turner engine.
File:John Brunner's Lee and Turner engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|Crime-fighter [[John Brunner]] uses a modified Lee and Turner engine.
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: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]].
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:Don Tasmian calibrating a Rotoscope scrying engine.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]].
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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== 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 07:06, 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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