HP PhotoSmart R707 (V01.00)
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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
39 responses to “What’s That? (27)”
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It looks to me like it includes aquarium rocks and is viewed through imperfect glass due to the distortion just outside the top righthand corner of the dark area. The rocks look to be swirled not unlike how a galaxy would swirl. The dark area, however, appears to be a shadow with a bright light source above it. It appears to have diffraction patterns (red edges at the top and blue at the bottom.)
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On second thought, it looks like the photo was of the bottom of a pool of water with rocks on the bottom, not swirled… that’s caused by the ripples of the water. I still say the center is a shadow of something floating on top of the water. The distortion of the rocks is caused by the ripples in the surface that you took the photo through.
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I´ve got the impression that the material here is that hydrophobic sand… maybe the "black hole" is a water droplet. Or the first impact of water poured in a bowl with that sand. Now the bowl is full of water (that casues the distorion as Rockee mentions) and the mark of the first reaction of the sand against the water that reamined at the bottom.
Anyway, I wanted it to be the Door to the Beyond. Merry Xmas. 0-)
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rockee is right but for the source of the shadow. ok.
the "black holes" are a metaphor. ok.
there is something about the "pattern" the shadow forms. ok.Can it be the hole your fingertip left in the stone floor of your fishbowl?… and that you waited for the waters to be calm again before talking the picture?
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Thanks for the welcome, jurvetson. I just discovered the high res version and change my opinion about the color fringes, they have to be due to a water vortex. Since there appear to be stones in the shadow as well, could the shadow be from the vortex? Surprisingly well defined, in that case.
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it’s a shadow of something floating on top of the water. I first thought that it was a hermit crab hole, but there’s no indentation or build up around the hole. The only difference in the gravel is lighting and some reflections/diffusion of light off of disturbances in the surface of the water. As to what is floating there’s not enough evidence for anything other than a spherical object, hence the waves. edit Oh, and the light source is directly above the object.
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Fusing the last two thoughts (before you gave us that emboldened clue) would mean a vortex and a ball make the shadow and circular rippling pattern on the surface causing shadows of those ripples to almost look like the rocks themselves are in a spiral pattern.
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Bingo Genista, a new puzzle entrant who did the mental fusion, and earlier kudos to Rocketeer for the big picture. It is the shadow of a water vortex. The vortex is out of the frame, and this is the shadow that it casts onto the pebbles on the bottom of the pool.
I noticed this yesterday just in front of our offices. I had never looked at the waterfall closely before, nor this pool at the top. There is a flat bed of rocks covered by a generally still pool of water. Except for a stable vortex, like you would see in a bathtub when you pull the drain plug.
If this were not a puzzle, I would have titled it “EYE OF THE TORNADO” or maybe “SUNSPLASHED.”
The strange thing is that I don’t see a drain anywhere in the pool, and certainly not below the vortex. It was like a drifting “dust devil” in the desert. Just more wet.
There is a water inlet and the water flows out along one edge of the rectangular pool, so there is a constant flux of water through this pool, and perhaps the asymmetries of its configuration create relatively stable swirling eddies.
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Dialogue between the receptionists at the Office main hall:
– Have you seen Mr Jurvetson lately, he looks weird…
– More? 😉 Why?
– I don´t know, he has tied his camera to his neck with a cord and I´ve seen him taking strange close pictures… of the front waterfall, for example.
– oh! now that you mention I´ve catched him taking a picture of a pair of glasses!? strange indeed…
– yes, one time I saw him putting a laser against the camera. Don´t know what for… but he looked so amused and happy with that!Jurvey, you with your puzzle´s shots have become yourself a puzzle for the people that surround you. You should make an office puzzle: "What am I doing?" =)
Welcome the new successful guessers! Cheers! =D
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Ohhh, I wish I had the luck to capture one of those moments of his weirdness (´coz it would mean I am in california, so afterwards I would go to the beach and stuff…) =D
Some recepcionist should help.
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It is a floppy beach hat spinning in a pool of water and pebbles at high noon in the tropic near a bar with a drink special and cheap tacos.
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Wonderful and interesting shot! I would never have guessed what it was! Well spotted and captured.
Thanks for sharing in our "Shadows" theme thread
The World Through My Eyes -
I think it is a black hole. (But I already know the truth!)
The World Through My Eyes.
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