Category Archives: Rubi

November 12, 2013 · 9:43 pm

VWX Town Rubi… So Far

1. Church of The Diagonal, Rubi Chapter
2. Castle of the 7th Spire*
3. House of Truth
4. Tower of TILE
5. Yeo May’s Residence
6. SoSo East Gallery
7. Kidd Tower
8. Blue Feather Gallery
9. Blue Feather Gallery Annex
10. Hole in the Wall
11. Damned Church
12. Town Hall
13. Sink Lair Gallery
14. Cottage by the Woods
15. Power Tower Gowlery
16. Temple of TILE
17. Home o’ Fibs
18. ToXic Art Gallery
19. Wall of Eyes
20. Home Orange
21. Slipper Coffee
22. Big Boy Tower
23. Piepodt
24. Table House
25. Confluence Place
26. SoSo West Gallery
27. Stares Gallery
28. Norum Gallery
29. Coolie Building
30. Tower of A. Mann
31. Rose Cottage
32. Norris Building
33. Norris Building Annex

* newly used structure.

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November 10, 2013 · 6:16 pm

VWX Town, Rubi Going Up Fast!

I’ve had so much experience building virtual villages now that I can lay these things out pretty thoroughly in practically a day.

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November 10, 2013 · 3:30 am

A Big Purchase

It’s the SL property I’ve been waiting for, seemingly. More details soon!

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4:21am update:

VWX Town reborn.

Church of The Diagonal, Rubi style.

97 97 97.

16 16 92.

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August 21, 2013 · 7:01 am

Extensions 01

The Diagonal seems to be predicted in the Jasper 07 collage from 2009 (“It’s up to us now”), presently hanging in Southside’s Gallery Jack.

Compare its central long, keyhole shaped image (tiles from the side of a Michigan building) with here:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/the-14-triplet-points-of-the-diagonal/

Even the foreground tile of the picture is adorned with a “D” (the logo of the Detroit Tigers, seen on all subsequent tiles as well extending into the background), just as the first sim on The Diagonal is Dierle, and associated with the letter “D” in the above grid diagram and also in the the microcosmic replica of The Diagonal in Westside’s Church of The Diagonal (below pic; far left letter).

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/vwx-town-stuff-02/

In looking further at Jasper 07, there’s no real doubt in my mind that this *is* a representation of the future, extended version of The Diagonal. Jasper 07 partially concerns — consciously, that is — the early version of The Diagonal, known only in its “Rubi exclusive” state then. See here for an interpretive post concerning Jasper 07, also from 2009.* And see here, once more, for my 2008 series about the Rubi aspect of The Diagonal if you wish.

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We switch subjects to VWX Town’s ties to the actual (*non*-virtual) Whitehead Crossing, or “WX” without the “V”, as it were. I see the link now mainly made through the big grey seal perched on a segment of the Power Tower Gowlery, an obvious and also conscious representation of WX’s pivotal Grey Seal (Grey Rock + Seal Stone). The stream below the virtual grey seal may also stand for WX’s Whitehead Brook, Little Whitehead, and No Name Spring one and all, as the Grey Seal rock formation lies relatively close to each.

Admittedly, there’s a tension between just giving up the virtual version of Whitehead Crossing — which actually has little to do with the real version except for the connections listed just above — and keeping it into October and perhaps beyond. On the one hand, I’m obviously going to be focusing more on the outdoors and Frank and Herman Parks for the next several months, taking time and energy away from Second Life. On the other hand, we have the growing story of The Diagonal, an exterior energy source for VWX Town that ties it to the whole continent of Heterocera and beyond. I’ll just have to play the two directions against each other for a while longer and see what happens. At any rate I’m certainly pleased about progress made on an interpretation of The Diagonal so far. It may even outstrip Jeogeot mysticism (Big E/Schwa, etc.) in the long run. And to close, I’d like to thank my virtual neighbor Veyot for testing out aspects of The Diagonal and calling it a very interesting theory. 🙂

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* In the post, I say of this collage and central image the following:

The overall shape of the orange tiled surface, in combination with the circular shape containing the keyhole at the top of the collage, is also keyhole shaped, Hucka D. The shape runs from the very top to the very bottom of the collage. This collage also happens to be 1024 pixels wide and 682 pixels high, making a relationship of 3:2 between the sides. 1024 is the size of the parcel I just rented in Klein, Hucka D [made up, as well, originally of 2 side-by-side 512 parcels]. The middle of the orange tile lies about 512 pixels from either side as well; exact center of the collage left-to-right, then…. This despite the fact that the overall shape of Jasper 07 is not based on any found photo this time, Hucka D. It is instead *tiled* from an edited picture of a toy, found in a search for Rookwood+tiles…

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August 19, 2013 · 12:51 pm

The 14 triplet points of The Diagonal

All but 2 of the 14 sims along The Diagonal contains one and only one point where all 3 location coordinates become the same number. In addition, one sim has 2 that Baker Bloch can identify (Rosieri) and there’s even one Diagonal sim with 3 such points (Tiretta). Even given the exceptions, I’ve still decided to call these numbers the master numbers of any Diagonal sim.

Master numbers that are twinned or almost twinned (within one meter of each other) are bolded in the slurl listings below of each of these spots. Notice that with the exception of Hirtaria near the center of The Diagonal (Hirtaria 15/15/15), *every other* sim starting at the northeast end of it has a twinned master number. Again: interesting.

The twins are Scotopteryx/31/31/31 (1) and Burnet/32/32/32 (5); Lanestris/97/97/97 (3) and Rubi/97/97/97 (11); and Miata 37/37/37 (9) and Tiretta/37/37/37 (13). Early conclusion: The Rubi Diagonal, strong and sufficient in and of itself in 2008 (seeded by the fixed position of Rubi/97/97/97), has now extended itself across the whole continent in order to survive and thrive, with a major twinned “seed point” being Lanestris/97/97/97. In fact, Lanestris/97/97/97 might have been specifically crafted, as it were, to act as a twin to Rubi/97/97/97, and build upon its potential.

The Diagonal twisted back upon itself. Profound implications here. The master numbers of each half of the central purple, red and orange sims (colors determined by height of sim, purple being the highest) add up to the same number (60+97+135=192; 80+97+115=192), with the two red sims (Rubi and Lanestris) having the same master number (97). Moreover, the change between the 3 numbers, on each side, is constant (37 between 60-97-135; 17 for 80-97-115). The master numbers of the yellow-green and lower yellow sims add up to the same number (32+23=55; 37+18=55). *And then* the overall number of, moving top to bottom, the orange, red, purple, lower yellow, and yellow-green sims add up to the same number (247). Could this tie into the meaning of the central diamond shapes in Enola Vaher’s desperate woman from “Don’t speak”? Could it relate to the string of yellow submarines Standing Baker is pulling out of the Greenup Gill landscape in Greenup 16? How about Kentucky’s Bee Line found in Herman Park last Fall? — I think that too has to factor in here.

* 9:58pm correction:
Baker Bloch was checking Tiretta/37/37/37 just a moment ago and noticed that there is a Tiretta/36/36/36 and also even a Tiretta/35/35/35 location he can position himself in. So Tiretta seems to have *3* master numbers: 35, 36, and 37. This comes about because the bank that the master number positions are on rises about a meter in elevation for every meter increased in both height and width within the sim. There’s almost a Tiretta 38/38/38, but Baker, despite several tries, cannot focus in on this number, nor Tiretta/34/34/34 in the other direction. I’ll make a close inspection of other master number locations along The Diagonal to see if Tiretta’s multiple master number situation is unique. My guess is that it will be. It would have to be a similar situation — a bank with similar qualities at the right location in any sim.

Oh fudge.

10:23pm update:

Hucka Doobie has very cleverly rezzed a row of cubes showing the progression of the triplet diagonal number on the Tiretta bank in question, one meter at a time. For him, the triple number appears at 34/34/34 (foreground cube), because of his lower stature. Baker Bloch is more a normal sized avatar, and for him he can manifest the master number of the sim now at 35, 36, and 37 positions. One can assume a taller avatar would have additional master numbers of 38 and 39 (back cubes in the below pic) and perhaps beyond.

Further notes:

For the considerably shorter Hucka Doobie, the master number of Philudoria appears to be 59 instead of 60, 96 instead of 97 for Lanestris, 31 instead of 32 in Burnet, 22 instead of 23 in Cosmet, 14 instead of 15 in Hirtaria, 79 instead of 80 in Rosieri (Baker Bloch has also discovered he can position himself at Rosieri/79/79/79 with some effort). We’ve already discussed the more complicated situation in Tiretta, where Hucka Doobie seems most stable at 34/34/34. Then in Dierli, we have another loss of a meter for the master number in terms of Hucka: 4/4/4 instead of the 5/5/5 for Baker Bloch.

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August 19, 2013 · 3:08 am

The Diagonal — More Studies 02

(Continued from The Diagonal — More Studies 01)

The next sim down from the north part of The Diagonal is Biston, whose triple coordinate number comes in at a low 18/18/18. This means it’s an underwater position once again like in the preceeding sim of Hirtaria, since the water level of all lagoon sims is 20 meters. This also means the depth of the water here is only 2 meters (as opposed to 5 meters for Hirtaria/15/15/15), with Baker’s perpetually hat topped head barely submerged beneath the surface.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Biston/18/18/18

The master number of Miata is 37, but the attached spot (37/37/37) lies on blocked land. However, since the land is flat here, once can deduce that no elevation change would take place from the edge of the property Baker Bloch stands at below (30/30/37).

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Miata/37/37/37

Another shot of the frosty shack on adjacent property first pictured in the Rubi Diagonal (Extended) 03 post. The Diagonal passes directly through its front door, and I thought I’d include another photo here to reinforce the perhaps interesting coordinates here, where the elevation is *twice* that of the sim width and height coordinates: Miata/19/19/38.

And here’s a similar spot just up the hill in Horisme, but with the numbers flipped. The elevation is *half* that of the identical width/height numbers (198/198/99). May turn out to mean something sometime in the future.

The triple number location in Horisme. This is the second highest such location on The Diagonal after Hooktip/135/135/135. The Great Linden Wall looms in the background.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Horisme/115/115/115

The famous Rubi/97/97/97 once more (as opposed to the twinned and *in*famous Lanestris/97/97/97). Again, this lies on the southern edge of the Great Rubi Forest, and can be seen as the seed position for the The Diagonal as a whole.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rubi/97/97/97

The master number location in Rosieri. Again, we’re just moving down The Diagonal sim by sim to identify these locations. More recently, Baker Bloch has found that he can also position himself at Rosieri/79/79/79, making this sim the first, for Baker at least, to have *2* master numbers (79 and 80).

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rosieri/80/80/80

And then we come next to Tiretta, where a yet more complex situation has arisen. Upon a recheck, Baker, just by himself, has identified not 1 not 2 but 3 master locations (35, 36, and 37) on Hucka Doobie’s designated Bank of Despair. See more of this situation toward the end of this post just above. Hucka D. also believes that the various properties of this bank are symbolically represented in both the Greenup 15 and Greenup 16 collages, now hanging in Westside’s House Greenup.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tiretta/37/37/37

The final sim on the Diagonal: Dierle, with the lowest triple coordinate point at 5 meters. Baker is well underwater here. A note: you cannot teleport directly to this location either. The best way to reach it is to teleport into the southeast corner of neighboring Garuda and walk east.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dierli/5/5/5

Sitting on the southwest corner of the Costra Nostra urban mall and club just above.

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Diagonal Paradox:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiagonalParadox.html

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July 25, 2013 · 5:45 am

Rubi Diagonal (Extended) 02

Dierli 195 195 029: A rooster on the diagonal. When I revisited the scene through Baker Bloch just now, a horse was also sleeping just beside the rooster, head very close. To exactly walk the Rubi Diagonal, Baker would have to step over this non-phantom fowl. Is this, instead, Ruustre?

Tiretta 014 014 035: Passed through this large Christian oriented billboard. Not the last such billboard I’d encounter while exploring The Diagonal.

Tiretta 051 051 041: Mushrooms; billboard still in plain sight.

Tiretta 097 097 044: Almost collided with a Linden cypress tree no. 1 (098 096 043) just off the Sandgrass Road.

Rosieri 089 089 083: Passed through edges of plumeria off Robin Lane.

Rubi 000 000 107: Edge o’ Rubi, if not the Rubi Forest quite yet. I won’t revisit The Diagonal in the forest through the current blog series since it’s been chronicled here.

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July 24, 2013 · 1:25 pm

Rubi Diagonal (Extended) 01

The Rubi Diagonal, first described in this *2008* series of posts (almost 5 years ago!), has been extend to meet the 125 Pillar of Westside, making that sector of VWX Town special indeed, just as uber-supporter Cardboard Derek Jones claimed all along. Extending the diagonal both northeast and southwest to encompass the limits of the Heterocera continent shows it crossing 14 total sims, including 2 water sims in the middle (Biston and Hirtaria, sims 7 and 8 up from the southeast corner respectively). It also crosses the heart of the fabulous Lanestris sim with the Virtual Chelsea Hotel before reaching Philudoria and the 125 Pillar of Westside. This strongly hints that the Virtual Chelsea Hotel and VWX Town (*Virtual* Whitehead X-ing Town, after all) have ties in unexpected and unknown ways still. The Diagonal also passes through the southern tip of the Great Linden Wall, itself extending through 14 sims in a generally northwest-southeast direction. A little bit more about synchronicities surrounding the Great Linden Wall are found in this earlier Frank and Herman Einstein blog post.

RUBI DIAGONAL (EXTENDED):

Dierli
Tiretta
Rosieri
Rubi (Rubi Forest)
Horisme (Great Wall)
Miata
Biston (water)
Hirtaria (water)
Cosmet
Burnet
Hooktip
Lanestris (Virtual Chelsea Hotel)
Philudoria (VWX Town (Westside!))
Scotopteryx

The Extended Rubi Diagonal.

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May 6, 2013 · 4:19 pm

Withdrawn

“Are you then cancelling the second meeting of the Council of the Sylver Forest, baker b.? I hear you’re thinking about already pulling out of Rubi, or the Rubi Forest environ. Environment?”

bb:

Unsure, Hucka D. Maybe we should just call a meeting about that decision.

Key:

I came back but then I need to go again.

Coke:

Me too. Good luck!

Ratti:

I am taking over. I take over all things. I am the artist of the sim.

Karoz:

Where’s the, sorry…

[delete name]:

Where’s the Korean Channel?

Hybuli:

Not much on mainland any longer, baker b. Sad it comes down to you and me and a handful of others. We’re the last ones standing, almost. I don’t blame you for pulling out. Wait until July and then rent again. You only have…

Hucka D.:

You only have a month until England. And you have so many other projects to do. I’d pull out.

bb:

You too, Hucka D.? Do we have any more opinions? Or any more people back there, period?

Hucka D.:

Only yourself.

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4:05:

For now I’ve compromised between giving up my land and keeping it by putting *half* of it up for sale, ratcheting me down to the next tier level (15 bucks cheaper for the month). The Power Tower Gowlery is gone for now. It will come back but I’m not sure if it will be in Tyta. We’ll see if the land sells before tomorrow.

6:52:

One-half is now sold, and the other half is up for sale. I’m simply sick, it seems, of Linden tier, as I was putting it to a prospective buyer. Focus should be on *England*. England England England!

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9:21:

It’s all sold.

I’ve still got the Tower of TILE.

There’s always the future.

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May 6, 2013 · 4:11 pm

Giving it up already?

I either do that or start working on a skybox creation. I have to pay 40 more dollars tomorrow or else opt out. Mainland is pretty much a rip off any more with its outmoded tier system.

Or I could just wait til June 06-07 to dump this land, and see what develops in the meantime. I just got here! — maybe the second option is the better plan.

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VWX Town Rubi… So Far

VWX Town, Rubi Going Up Fast!

A Big Purchase

Extensions 01

The 14 triplet points of The Diagonal

The Diagonal — More Studies 02

Rubi Diagonal (Extended) 02

Rubi Diagonal (Extended) 01

Withdrawn

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