Opera Glasses from the Great Beyond

[WalterBishop]

Ignore the title. :D I doubt September is from the great beyond.

I've decided to do a run-down diagram of all of the interface elements of September's binoculars.

http://i33.tinypic.com/2u6jwis.jpg

1- Apparentally a logo or symbol of sorts. Bears resemblance to certain crop circles.

2- Part of the upper data display. I have absolutely no clue what the upper label says, something like Getowidth. The variable says 1500 it or ib. Anyone have an idea what this may be? The bottom half says Pulse Width, which may relate to the frequences the Cylinder is broadcasting.

3- Upper half says "Clutter Filter",(Which is set to 3) which may be a visual clutter filter. Something that would remove clutter from the visible spectrum, which would have to be quite futuristic. Lower half says Radar Type, which says OWSR-BBS or similar, which I don't believe is any modern-day radar type.

4- Range Nomalization, or Normalization. I have no clue whatosever. Lower half says Antenna Height. I didn't see any antenna on the outside of the binoculars? Possibly the antenna that he is broadcasting to?

5- Upper half I can't really make out. Lower half says Samples, which is probably color samples for picture clarification and contrast alteration.

6- Upper half unreadable once again. Lower half says Unfolding, which I have absolutely no clue about.

7- Apparentally the zoom function's visual display. Any clarification on this? Does it move when he zooms in?

8- I have no clue. If anyone could find another frame of the binocular sequence, I could potentially identify it.

9- Range calculator. Probably a representation of all visible objects in a 3D space. Very high-tech.

10- Possibly the zoom function's display, if #7 ends up being something else.

11- Possibly the zoom display or a vertical range meter. (Displays the vertical angle of the binoculars)

12- Local terrain analysis? Spacial spectrum display? Space-time fabric representation? Sound measurement? It could be anything. Would need another frame to confirm.

13- Compass/Horizontal range meter. Displays the direction the binoculars are pointing at.

14- Lower tag says "Qb (mil/min)", AKA: "Millions of Qbs per minute", of which I have no clue what a Qb is. Any possible meaning?


Basically, those binoculars are one heck of a piece of machinery. I want a pair. :haha:

[D-Roc]

Excellent thread WB!

I'm not sure if we're supposed to know what a lot of the stuff on his interface says but I do hope it means something in scientific terms. Like you said, hopefully someone with the knowledge of any of this stuff can lend a hand.:hope:

The "Clutter Filter" intrigues me no-end:shiny:

[GaBa73]

http://i33.tinypic.com/2u6jwis.jpg

The "dots" are yellow, yellow, green, red on this pic...:shiny:

[Wondermind]

WB, I like the way you dissected out the various sections of the visual image field. It makes it easier for analysis. Here is a thread that I had created sometime earlier on section #9 (Range Calculater) of your list. Maybe later we all can continue to work on figuring out the rest.
Great job on the catagories. :happy15:

http://fringe-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=847


I believe #4 (Range Normalization) might be referring to what is known in mathematics as a fractal antenna. It’s actually an antenna designed to capture a set of variables used for mapping a topological range based on it the signatures of its signals. Thus certain objects emits its own range of signals and thus his binoculars have a field signal detector (if you will) that can pick up on those signals based on the range and depth of the object. And since we are talking high tech…the antenna is probably built-in and hidden from view.
A fractal antenna is an antenna that uses a fractal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal), self-similar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-similarity) design to maximize the length, or increase the perimeter (on inside sections or the outer structure), of material that can receive or transmit electromagnetic signals (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Electromagnetic_signal&action=edit&redlink=1) within a given total surface area or volume. Such fractal antennas are also referred to as multilevel, and space filling curves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_filling_curves), but the key aspect lies in their repetition of a motif over two or more scale sizes,[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna#cite_note-0#cite_note-0) or 'iterations'. For this reason, fractal antennas are very compact, are multiband or wideband, and have useful applications in cellular telephone and microwave communications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna)



Here is another example of how fractal mathematics can be used to map out a mountain range. This also ties into the image on your section #12 (Local Terrain Analysis).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Animated_fractal_mountain.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Animated_fractal_mountain.gif)