San Pietro scrying engine
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.
In the News
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.
Artist-Engineer Don Tasmian using rotoscope as scrying engine emulator.
The Hamangia scrying engine (c. 5250-4550 BC).
A scrying engine is any engine which causes or facilitates scrying.
Scrying engine detects possible melody from allegedly lost Lennon song "Imagine There's No Satan.
2016: Festival at Canterbury Cathedral celebrates history of scrying engines.
Earliest known representation of the San Pietro scrying engine.
Fiction cross-reference
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Hamangia scrying engine
- Imagine There's No Satan
- Scrying engine
- Don Tasmian
- We Were There, Time Was Away
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Antonio del Pollaiolo (nonfiction)
- Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)
- Lanfranc (nonfiction)
- Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)
External links
- [ Post] @ Twitter (12 July 2021)