Category Archives: Heterocera

Edwardston plays a new song in the Rosieri village church called “Starting to Understand”. Rosieri, to remind, is the sim caddycorner to Rubi to its southwest. The church is part of a small village Edwardston first ran across several days back, exclusive to that sim. This represents his second and more extended visit.

In the cemetery behind the church: ghosts!

“Where’s the darn gate again?” Edwardston wonders, looking for a quick escape from the cursed place.

“Woah, I hope whatever was in this cage isn’t heading up to Rubi and VWX Town!”

Edwardston encounters skid marks in the road while walking away from the cemetery and the church. He’s seen several motorcycles in the village. “Maybe they made these,” he thinks. “Hogs.”

Chill’n in a village diner, hoping a biker gang doesn’t suddenly show up, actually.

Further north on the main road, Edwardston spies a familiar object hanging in the sky. It’s his neighbor’s crystal-like skybox, low to the ground.

He heads back home through bramble marking the village’s western border. VWX Town just ahead!

Queerly, Edwardston finds he’s lost a day as he passes through the town and into the Rubi Woods for more exploring fun. He cannot remember the Rosieri trip because that actually occurs tomorrow, when he plays the piano in the church. Is he trapped in an eternal loop? We’ll see!

Edwardston studies the brown cypress tree arrangement Hucka D. has called The Notch, a prominent Rubi Woods attribute.

6 such trees form a v-shaped formation here. Edwardston pays particular attention to the brown cypress sharing trunk space with a larger eucalyptus tree. As he’s noted previously, there are maybe close to half a dozen twinned trees like this in the forest.

The Notch from above. Is this truly related to the Hyades star cluster?

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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.

These include 123 eucalyptus trees…

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

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.

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

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“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

V shaped star formation. Notch parallel?

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

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

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.

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.

Whee!

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.

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.

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.

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

Intertwined branches of same.

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.

Looking into The Notch from the west.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

8, 9

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.