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File:Don Tasmian calibrating a Rotoscope scrying engine.png|Artist-Engineer [[Don Tasmian]] using rotoscope as [[scrying engine]] emulator.
File:We_Were_There,_Time_Was_Away.jpg|link=We Were There, Time Was Away|The San Pietro scrying engine makes a cameo appearance in the romantic crime drama film '''''[[We Were There, Time Was Away]]''''' as a Papal Legate algorithm secretly infatuated with Barbra Streisand.


File:Hamangia-figures-Lorenz-attractor.jpg|link=Hamangia scrying engine|[[Hamangia scrying engine]] (c. 5250-4550 BC).
File:Don Tasmian calibrating a Rotoscope scrying engine.png|Artist-Engineer '''[[Don Tasmian]]''' using rotoscope as scrying engine emulator.
File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|A [[Scrying engine]] is any [[Engine (nonfiction)|engine]] which causes or facilitates [[Scrying (nonfiction)|scrying]].


File:Canterbury Cathedral 1890-1900.jpg|link=Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|2016: Festival at [[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|Canterbury Cathedral]] celebrates history of [[scrying engines]].
File:Hamangia-figures-Lorenz-attractor.jpg|link=Hamangia scrying engine|The '''[[Hamangia scrying engine]]''' (c. 5250-4550 BC).
 
File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|A '''[[scrying engine]]''' is any engine which causes or facilitates scrying.
 
File:Imagine There's No Satan.jpg|link=Imagine There's No Satan|Scrying engine detects possible melody from allegedly lost Lennon song "'''[[Imagine There's No Satan]]'''.
 
File:Canterbury Cathedral 1890-1900.jpg|link=Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|2016: Festival at '''[[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|Canterbury Cathedral]]''' celebrates history of scrying engines.


File:San Pietro scrying engine.png|Earliest known representation of the San Pietro scrying engine.
File:San Pietro scrying engine.png|Earliest known representation of the San Pietro scrying engine.
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* ''[[We Were There, Time Was Away]]''


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

Latest revision as of 09:14, 12 July 2021

The scrying engine portrait bust of Antonio del Pollaiolo, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli. Here the engine is processing Spirograph data.

The San Pietro scrying engine is a scrying engine built into the portrait bust of Antonio del Pollaiolo in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli.

Originally designed to simplify the process of creating liturgical calendars, the San Pietro scrying engine has, over centuries of use, accumulated the world's largest library of calendrical and theological subroutines.

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External links

  • [ Post] @ Twitter (12 July 2021)