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What is this object, or what do you want it to be? (update: it was in the building at ACC 2004 for those of you who were there). It’s now back at home.

42 responses to “What’s That? (12)”

  1. 72 TV-sets (or monitors)? In a security room of a futuristic building with alike rooms? I can’t be that far.

  2. on a second thought… It’s beneath your feet. It’s a large aquarium with a hungry shark inside, very well lit, ocean water is so pleasantly blue. You can’t appreciate much the fact that thick matt glass tiles separate you from this beast: your hands are handcuffed and you’ll be led downstairs and fed to this shark in about a minute, because you interfered with plans of some moody mafiosi. Am I still not right?

  3. led based display: with the optical lenses causing the distortion.

    centipede the video game.

    the breath mints nuclear fresh mega pack.

    a flouroscent jellyfish cutter.

    raver bubble pop.

  4. Wow!!!! The collective is very fast today (the prior posts were all in the first 15 minutes).

    One of TroyWorks’ answers is correct at the element level. What is the purpose of the system?

    (Meanwhile, I’m stuck in a bubble wrap popping loop)

  5. Troy works… Alas! that Raver Bubble pop is the BESTEST thing I´ve seen after the Virtual sea monkeys (may take a while to load) SH**!!! mine have died of "baterial infection"… Maybe as Mr.Miyagi says "Man who catch fly with chopstick can accomplish anything.", I have to give a try here first.

    Glad to see you Steve Accelerator, kiss^n to you there.

    :——/

    As for the puzzle that is like a plain video wall to me.

  6. movement captor? Based on the array idea 😉

  7. nope…..

    How many lights are there in the array?

  8. 12 squares in 6 rows… Let me play…

    This panel is an exposition of 6 different observations made on the behavior of some *bright* object (may be: a cosmic body; a tiny phosphorescent enzime; light; some body that under the experiment scanning reflects that bright blue light). Each array (row) is compossed of 12 shots because of some reason for that period -i.e. a year so there you have monthly shots; or because in 12 shots the "Thing"´s behavour completes its cicle-.

    As you see I made an BIG imagination effort talking about what I can even conceive! This mental challenges are kewl, like playing tetris… |-)

  9. I think that the light effects are reflexions of the flash light. A single light source.
    If truth, then the array’s elements aren’t equally reflective and/or homogeneously oriented.
    Some details indicate that the 72 "squares" were in motion.

  10. Whatever it is, I have the feeling it might fit in "illusions" …

    My first guess would be monitors.

  11. Oh! talking about Ilusions you may find some new pple joinning in soon, I´ve sent an invite to my friends.

    To Jurvey as well.

    0-)

  12. Merci. Pandalien: I think OldCola has qualified this one for the Illusion pool…

    This puzzle has also been decaffeinated….

    Don’t walk like an Egyptian; Think like an Alien.

    Look beyond the symbols into the matrix….

  13. I love the name "Pandalien" 0-)
    And thank you!

  14. Reminds me of the jeopardy question monitors.. I’ll take light number 1.1 for $100 🙂

    Also of an old curved CRT with lit up phosphor cells as seen through a square aperature grille up close.

    maybe more later..

  15. Ohh, perhaps it’s like the alien communication display used in that movie, where sounds and light strobes were flashed to the aliens.

  16. i love these guesses.

    Looking back, i realize that one of the numerical interpretations of the Alieness is partially correct in one of the display modes.

    My advice: ignore the current misleading pattern and think about the structure….

  17. me and my classic partial correctness…

    ggggrrrrrrrrrrr…..

  18. The structure (6×12) has an harmonic progression inherent to it. Maybe because they are not prime numbers (?). You can multiply it and you will always get a square or half a square (like this rectangle)

    I dunno if this figure (12×6) has some relevancy in technology and my knowledge in maths is too basic to move forward. Assuming I am correct in the importance of the 6×12 structure, I wouldn´t be able to say why. It´s a feeling… I would need help.

    Once again, appreciate my humble goodwill. 🙂

  19. Good question embedded there… There is no geek interpretation needed, or even tough math (like multiplication).

    The analog is probably visible to you right now…. 😉

  20. Hmm, ok so there’s 7 days in a week and there’s 6 images here on one side, perhaps there is no image for Sunday, day off 🙂
    The 12 image side could be the months of the year.
    The image could be the reflection of a body space in some reflective medium, such as a satelite in geo-sync orbit or a distant star.

  21. Also noticing the small light reflection smudges outside the grid, makes me think of a commercial ceiling light with the grid installed to prevent glare outside the area immediately below the light.
    Light could be off, and nearby lights are reflecting against it’s grid.

  22. You know, when in doubt I squint and not even squinting is helping me to find the true meaning behind the blue lights. Maybe I don’t have the knowledge necessary to solve this here puzzle…
    Having said that and throwing caution to the wind. And at the risk of sounding completely stupid, here goes "something".

    One thing that comes to mind though, through my studies in film/video/animation (yes, I escaped math in every possible way) is the movement of that light. How it seems to be progressing frame by frame, quite like in animation drawings or animation cells.

    ____________________________

    Alieness, I think it is very brave how your’e not afraid to explore within your answers. I’d rather be always partially correct than consistently wrong (or too afraid to even try). 😀 That to me is admirable!

  23. Ah yeah, a word that comes to mind as well, is loop. Which is also tied to the concept of animation.

  24. iv0: right you are. Have no fear. It’s in spiral animation mode in this photo…. Which can be misleading, and create the illusion of motion….

    The purpose of the system is indicated by the number of cells. 12 months. 12 Monkeys, Ocean’s 12, base12….

  25. 12 apostles, 12 zodiac signs… etc. Is this a numerology mystical thing???

    *need input*

  26. Ok, this can be a schedule or a timetable. Each columh represents an hour (60") divided in periods of 10" so you get 6 squares.

    At the same time 12 hours in row represents half a day, but in the anglosaxon way of expressing day time (1,2,3,4,5,6, AM / PM) this is not a problem, you only need 12. Maybe this has not been even a thought for the designers. (I realize it for the difference with here. We say 1 to 12 to express the AM time and then continue 13, 14, 15hs -1, 2, 3 PM-).

    So there you have an electronic timetable or schedulle, of a complete day even in detail of 10 minutes.

    0-)

    (Or this is it, or this is the most crazy delirium in my entire life. Ah, no there is another one I still can´t believe I am living it…)

  27. IVO! you are SO sweet. Forget about shyness, girl! Besides, when you are "incorrect" you has also been creative in the answers, and we all value creativity more than not guessing correctly.

    I love to read crazy answers. To see how far goes the imagination of others. I do value it a lot, and learn from it. So does Jurvey it seems…

  28. There is something between a dodecahedron (which should have pentagonal facets) and an hypercube that float in my mind.
    But nothing that I’m able to focus enough to get an interpretation.
    And iv0, if there must be someone shy around here, let me be the one 😉
    Look, I’m hidden behind my sunglasses

  29. Absolutely. And Bingo Alieness for the system and TroyWorks for the LED elements. Special mention to iv0 for spotting the decorative animation and Old Cola for fixing the picture.

    It’s a watch. A digital watch. So it normally tells the time, but it has a date mode too. But it’s not the usual configuration. It has a row of 12 lights for the hours, and a rectangle of 60 lights for the minutes, in banks of 5. Like an traditional analog watch, the “hour hand” lights align with 5 “minute hand” lights.

    More specifically, it’s a Blue LED Pimp Watch from TokyoFlash. Those wacky folks describe it as such:
    “Super flashy and you will be Pimpin large. Pimpin was never easy till now… If you need some help pimpin, we recommend the book below. Enjoy Pimpin!… The Blue L.E.D. was invented in Japan and the inventor was given approximately $200.00 USD for his invention. Just recently the inventor sued the company he was working for and won $200,000,000.00 USD. The company is appealing the case.”

    They don’t state it openly, but they basically sell watches that are difficult to read.

  30. Awww I’m filled with warm and fuzzy feelings right now. 😀

    (And then I went off on a tangent…)

    At the same time I’d like to share something interesting I found in the information super highway… (thanks to my friend Nelly!)

    "All forms are made up of their own combined energies or Sephiroth. The Sephiroth is also known as the Tree of Life. It is explained in scriptures that the Tree of Life has twelve braches and resides in the center portion of a living being next to or alongside of its "river of life". This would be the center area, portion or position of any living being."

  31. Posted my last comment allmost at the same time as Steve !
    Bravo to G and everybody else.

  32. Holy sh*t… my mind is oficially blown…

    Great thinking Alieness!

    *Need more input!*

  33. …Thank you for the congrats, but like the previous puzzle WE made it. 0-)

    I must admit that in the middle of my wonderings… I thought it could be this:

    A new laser LCD super modern criogenetic cosmic release, but still Simon in esence…

  34. OH mannnnn I LOVE the Simon!!! You are just re-kindling all my electronic 80’s gadgets loves huh Alieness? 😀

  35. Simon says:

    …A-hem… |-)

  36. Awesome.. reminds me of the binary clock one can buy these days at thinkgeek. I remember making one in electronics class.. Great puzzle Steve.

  37. that was a grandios quess!
    Thank you

  38. Your totally dysfunctional timepiece.

  39. wooo gr8 puzzle!

    & congratz 2 alien 4 figurin it out!
    :p

  40. Fascinating! Thanks for posting to the Timepieces pool.

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