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Example of scrying engine in use.

In the news

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  2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.

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  1890: Scientist, inventor, and APTO marketing director 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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  September 4, 1769: Polymath and crime-fighter 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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  May 24, 1540: Physician, Gnomon algorithm theorist, and cartographer Gemma Frisius invents a new type of astrolabe which functions as a scrying engine.

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  Inventor 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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  Crime-fighter John Brunner uses a modified Lee and Turner Scrying engine.

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  Diagramaceous soil yields new variety of Bingo algorithm, useful as clarifying agent in wager-based scrying engines.

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  Canterbury scrying engine computes Mandelbrot set.

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  Artist-researcher Don Tasmian converts Rotoscope to scrying engine.

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  The Hamangia scrying engine computing the Lorenz system.

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  Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

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  Universal Turing machine converted to scrying engine.

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  The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse. See Scrying (nonfiction).

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Phanerogram - a Gnomon algorithm function used in scrying engines as a sigil visualizer.
• Scrying engine - related technology.
• Tesla! - a reality TV show in which participants compete to emulate Nikola Tesla.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)

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