Scrying engine
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
Rick's Monkey pre-visualized by CERN scrying engine.
Typical 1922-era scrying engine with CCRU Modulem, visualizing the CCRU Spinal Diagram.
July 12, 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.
August 13, 1897: Inventor, engineer, and crime-fighter 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.
January 8, 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.
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.
May 24, 1540: Physician, Gnomon algorithm theorist, and cartographer Gemma Frisius invents a new type of astrolabe which functions as a scrying engine.
Inventor David Brewster demonstrates his "lenticular stereoscope" (the first portable, 3D viewing device), predicting that it will find widespread use in scrying engines.
Crime-fighter John Brunner uses a modified Lee and Turner engine.
Diagramaceous soil yields new variety of Bingo algorithm, useful as clarifying agent in wager-based scrying engines.
Canterbury scrying engine computes Mandelbrot set.
Artist-researcher Don Tasmian converts Rotoscope to scrying engine.
The Hamangia figurines computing the Lorenz system.
Brion Gysion uses newly-discovered scrying engine to investigate the mysteries of creation.
Universal Turing machine converted to scrying engine.
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse. See Scrying (nonfiction).
Fiction cross-reference
- Diagramaceous soil
- Glass-Darkly scrying engine - a brand of scrying engine, popular among Gnomon algorithm theorists
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Phanerogram - a Gnomon algorithm function used in scrying engines as a sigil visualizer.
- Scrylmn - a film created using one or more scrying engines in any of various capacities. Most scrylmns are either documentary films or experimental works such as The Mandalorian Dog.
- The Patrick Device
- Tiresian blue - a shade of the color blue which is commonly associated with prophecy and fortune-telling.
- Wave scrying - the scrying of waves, typically large bodies of water
- TO_DO : investigate possibility of Wave scrying in liquid region of Jupiter; Red Spot focus?