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Rubi Trees/Golden Mean

Pretty strange: I took several hours to carefully count the number and types of trees in the Rubi Woods using an 8×5 grid method, and came up with the following sums. The total number of trees in the woods, counting those bordering Robin Lane in extreme north Rubi, is 199.

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These include 123 eucalyptus trees…

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… and 76 cypress trees of both green (larger) and brown (smaller) variety.

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The amazing part came when I started dividing the total and subtotals to compare percentages. A number very close to the golden mean kept coming up….

199/123 = 1.617886178861789

123/76 = 1.618421052631579

… or the golden mean +1 in this case:

199/76 = 2.618421052631579

What I soon found out is that I’d somehow stumbled upon a succession of what’s called Lucas numbers or Lucas series, closely related to the more famous Fibbonaci series.

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Some articles on Lucas numbers:

http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/lucasNbs.html

http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/lucas200.html

http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/lucas/lucas.html

(Continued in)

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Rubi Forest thoughts, etc.

“The easiest way to really get down and dirty in a study of the 8×5 forest, Hucka D., is to divide it into 40 sections of 32×32 square meters each. This may have been how The Ancients studied the forest as well.”

Hucka D.:

Yes. 8×5.

bb:

You’ve indicated The Notch feature. Can you speak of other features now?

Hucka D.:

The Big Dipper, the Little Dipper. The forest is the sky.

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bb:

In order to balance out VWX Town, I must coordinate it with the forest, the woods.

http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/stars/sch_.htm

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V shaped star formation. Notch parallel?

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Fal Mouth Moon 01

1st Floor: Gila series of Gilatona-Lis. And the rocket launcher.

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3rd floor: Lis series. 2nd floor we skipped contains the Latona series.

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And then looking down from the 5th floor to the 4th and the exposed Falmouth series, the capping “4 collages in 1 collage” work of Gilatona-Lis. Funtastic.

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There’s even a 6th floor to the structure, a type of attic. As mentioned previously there’s some room for new collages above and beyond Gilatona-Lis, unlike its old home, the Power Tower Gowlery. And also we have it combined with that oh so cool rocket launcher. Have you been to VWX Town’s Moon yet? You should go dear reader or readers.

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Whee!

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Carrcassonne gives a big thumb’s up to the Fal Mouth Moon. Well, a big arm’s up, since she has no thumbs. Or hands.

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The Rubi Forest 01

Overhead shot of the 5/8ths sim sized Rubi Forest, a protected Linden Lab property. There are 3 types of trees within the forest: eucalyptuses, brown cypresses and green cypresses, with the brown cypresses normal larger than the green ones. In the below photo, the 3 types of trees can rather clearly be discerned from each other, esp the 2 variations of cypresses. The eucalyptus trees, larger than the green cypresses even, are a little harder to pinpoint in this snapshot, since their foliage is both closer to the color of the ground and spread out a bit more.

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There are several varieties of “twinned” trees in the forest, this example being a merger of a eucalyptus and a green cypress. I believe this occurs in the north central part of the forest, not far from Robin Loop running parallel to its entire upper border.

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This is a fusion of eucalyptus and brown cypress, closer to VWX Town and the woods’ southern limit.

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Intertwined branches of same.

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Hucka D. has indicated to me that this is a forest feature called The Notch, made up of 6 brown cypresses sprouting in a “V” shape in its southwest area. The Notch can be clearly seen in the overhead photo above. Hucka D. has also recently indicated to me that other forest features have been named in the past but haven’t been revealed to me yet. All in good time, he recites.

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Looking into The Notch from the west.

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Uprooted tree, with only the barest of a point touching the ground, even. There may be examples of totally uprooted or “floating” trees in the forest as well — hafta check soon. I’d also like to talk about the grass in the forest shortly.

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Eucalpytus trees. These 1 prim linden trees are a remarkable product. All the linden trees and plants have their merit, and of course you run across them all over the place inworld. Not as much as you should in my humble opinion but they can be called ubiquitous still.

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Baker Bloch thinks a path may have laterally run through the center of the forest at one time, judging by the green, open area he’s standing in below. Personally I’m not convinced of this.

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Baker also likes to often reduce his viewing range while within the forest to make it appear larger and also more misty and mysterious seeming.

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“Not much happening…

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… over at *Ye Ole Watering Hole*, Hucka D.” (smiles) Just Karoz and Bracket Jupiter sharing a beer and not being able to see each other.”

Hucka D. (jumping right into it):

We have the Alpha and the Omega defined now. Alpha is The Wizard of Oz, the light, the good. Omega is the dark. It is The Shining, and the black and white photograph at the end of this movie is also the end of your world. And my world. You start somewhere and you end somewhere. Fal Mouth Moon is a way to get out, to go home.

bb (offering):

The Moon?

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New VWX Town Map

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New structures since last map created approx. 1 month ago:

34. Bodega Market
35. Marble Tower (replaced 32)
36. Unnamed structure (replaced 26 and 28)
37. Elephant effigy (replaced 19)
38. Fal Mouth Moon (replaced 20, 21 kind of)
39. VWX Tower (replaced 15 kind of)

Deleted but not replaced:

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This is the Blue Feather Gallery and Blue Feather Gallery Annex.

Other thoughts:

City Hall remains, but it has been greatly enlarged. It has stolen the cat sculpture from nearby Confluence Place, itself enlarged and modified in the same process. The Confluence Place cat was moved *directly up* and repositioned atop the 5 story City Hall, which now arches over The Table House toward the more southern building. VWX Tower is based on the same module, but it, in turn, represents another type of enlargement of the new City Hall. And although I claim above that VWX Tower replaces the Power Tower Gowlery (kind of), the Fal Mouth Moon (former hotel) just to the east of this recently derezzed structure, represents more of an actual replacement, since it is now the home of the Gilatona-Lis collage series formerly exhibited in PTG. I believe the FMM now becomes the centerpiece of the town, along with perhaps the directly attached and nearby structures The Table House, Confluence Place, and also both the similar City Hall and VWX Tower arching over all.

Hucka D.:

If Confluence Place is part of the center, then so is the Castle of the 7th Spire. And also the Church of The Diagonal. And how about the Church of the Damned? Or The Hole in the Wall, which I would suggest you re-name The Watering Hole or Ye Ole Watering Hole or something like that? See what’s happening there tonight.

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Fal Mouth Moon, The

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New structure in town, but actually quite old. Formerly a haunted hotel, now it functions as a gallery for the Gilatona-Lis[-Falmouth] series (replacing the Power Tower Gowlery on that) and also as a portal to The Moon (replacing the Norris Building on that). More soon!

And, oh yeah, I’m definitely in Rubi for another month. Decision gate passed through.

The Fal Mouth Moon has connections with Bay City’s similarly fowl Falmouth Hotel via wig topped Red Skeleton. It’s also associable with The Shining’s cursed Overlook Hotel in snowy Colorado. An exorcism may have taken place there in past/present/future.

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Bracket Jupiter
The Fal Mouth Moon, VWX Town
July 4, 1921

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Fal[se] Mouth & disappearing WIG WGI.

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Chilbo

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8042061376F46999

What could have been.

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I don’t think…

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… I’m going to be able to give up my Rubi property in the next several days. Set it up for sale? I could make my money back on a sale, but I have to weigh continued creative value (including value to this blog, of course) with giving it up and shifting to other emphases.

Check out the map of the Rubi sim above: The VWX Tower can be seen spanning the entire length of my town/property there, [over] 2/3rds of a sim long, but probably [considerably] over a sim’s length walking it from top to bottom. Interesting fun fact: You can’t walk it in reverse. But one thing I noticed on the map is that the [cat topped] City Hall lies almost precisely halfway down the length of VWX Tower, making a right angle with it.

Hucka D.:

1996. It was a good year for crop circles. You have two on your property now. Well, not crop circles. Glyph art. Composites. VWX Tower is a tile uniting audio and video. What is the audiovideo tile referred to?

bb:

It’s a towering tile, whatever.

Hucka D.:

Think.

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Edwardston R. discovers the former, fuller Rosieri urban area.

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Dueling borg cubes, 2009 (Rubi Forest front left).

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Collage always there is.

“I wonder if Bracket Jupiter came back as a Tylepire on the Heterocera continent, specifically around Slosser?

Hucka D.:

Baker’s not here tonight, Edwardston. I will help[ instead]. I am Bracket as well.

Edwardston Resident:

Are you?

Hucka D.:

Yes.

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Edwardston Resident:

It [the post] says, that Slosser was full, and it had done its bit. So bit equals bite, as in the bite that turns one into a, um, tylepire.

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Edwardston R. (still reading):

Looks like the last bit of Heterocera mythology I really have to deal with comes from the Pond District. Lakeview is afterwards, but no mythology developed there.

Hucka D.:

Not really.

Edwardston R.:

Slosser is sort of a broken off part of the Pond District, really.

Hucka D.:

Kind of.

Edwardston R.:

I think I want to study all the streams of Heterocera, and all the gorges, either dry or wet. Like HEC Canyon, which I still haven’t read about.

Hucka D.:

All centers around Rubi. Even when none of the [Baker] family lived there… here. Because we still live here, right? Last time I checked.

Edwardston R.:

Yes, because my house has not been deleted.

Hucka D.:

Good enough. Baker b. plans to set the land for sale soon, perhaps today. And he told me you’re okay with this.

Edwardston R.:

I suppose.


Heck’s Canyon.

Buses, Boats, Bibles, Butterflies, Beads, Bends, Bugspikes and Beards

Edwardston R.:

Hucka D., do you know this Nish Mip?

Hucka D.:

Yes, she is an explorer friend of Baker Bloch’s. Former friend… I don’t think they’ve communicated in years. Baker Bloch use to have a number of SL explorer friends but they, one by one, gradually dropped by the wayside as all moved on from Second Life and into real life or else other fake lives, or a combo of both. Another prime example would be Headburro Antfarm, who was also a friend of Nish Mip’s. You should study Antfarm’s work as well.

Edwardston (still reading Heterocera related posts):

And I see Heck’s Canyon has direct ties to Corsica continent. It is equated with the Valley of Nye, the huge, hypothetical ocean gorge that separates Corsica from Nautilus continents. Baker’s square Edwardston Station Gallery in the sky, the archetypal cube, peers down into it like a giant eye. Thus Eye of Rye. And appropriately the cube is the same as Jasper County, Illinois, and Jasper is the first name of Jack Daniels, whose namesake company just put out an unaged version of a rye drink.

Hucka D.:

You are becoming more and more like baker b.

Edwardston R.:

Maybe. (pause; still reading) Now I’ve come to the literature about the Pond District black hole, Hucka D. That’s another directly link with Corsica… literally, because the hole connects the center of Heterocera’s Pond District with Corsica’s Bracket sim and Comma Islands. I have done my homework!

Hucka D.:

Impressive. (pause) Too impressive?

Edwardston R.:

Now I have to understand about this King and his Queen in Ratcliff, Pond District, and their All White Horses shop in the downtown area.

Hucka D.:

It’s all a downtown. But… yes. You do.

Edwardston R.:

Bracket Jupiter is of course the King of the Stans, and his Queen there is the Brackage Queen. He just saw a picture of her in the art gallery on the mountain where his castle use to exist. Question: Is this the same as the King and Queen of Ratcliff?

Hucka D.:

A question to be asking.

Edwardston R.:

That is a central issue, and one I must confer with Bracket about. Is there any way to properly meet him?

Hucka D.:

There’s always collage.


“A” is Mount Pond;”B” is Baker’s new 512 parcel; “C” is what Hucka D. claims is The King’s old shop in Ratcliff, which he has just now identified by name (“All White Horses are One White Horse”, which the locals, again according to Hucka D., most frequently shortened to “All White Horses”); and then “D” is the site of the miniature city of New Gummton on the shores of Lake Sesia.

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