Sunklands

Rubi Diagonal is 256 x 14 x 1.41421 meters long, or 5068.53 meters long. This is 3.1494 miles, fairly close to pi (3.141519), which gave me the idea of reformatting the diagonal as a circle of 14 sections, end (Scotopteryx sim) connected back to beginning (Dierli sim). Pi of pies.

To make it exactly 3.141519 miles, you’d have to shorten the diagonal by about 12 1/2 meters, or an average of less than 1 meter per sim it passes through.

The centerpoint of The Diagonal is in the very center of the 2 completely water sims of the 14 (Biston and Hirtaria), another interesting tidbit to consider. Opposite this on the above wheel is more water at the top of Scotopteryx and the bottom of Dierli.

Almost all sims involved in The Diagonal appear to be named after various moth species. If so, Philudoria appears to be a mispelling of Philodoria. This could be interesting, because I’d already named another Second Life community Philo (or Hilo) — see here. And this is the sim VWX Town now appears in, which is kind of a replacement for this Philo.

The only sim in doubt of breaking this pattern, then, is Burnet, which does not come up in the top hits of wikipedia as a moth species. Instead, Burnet County, Texas pops up at the top. But in digging a little deeper just now, yes, it looks like Burnet is also the name of a moth. Rubi is rather ambiguous on the surface as well, but also the name of a moth, and that’s the obvious origin as a sim name. So — all 14 sims appear to be consciously named for a moth species.

Burnet County, a kind of oddball of the 14 as stated above, is also the last home of DB of Synchronicity Phenomena Forum, and there is a Dubia (DB) sim not far away to the south and east of the Burnet sim.

There are 2 high points on The Diagonal, the first (from the south) coming in Horisme near the Great Linden Wall, and the second in Hooktip, near the Hooktip train station, perhaps, which the diagonal runs directly through. There is a low point between the two, which represents Linden sea level — when you enter Hirtaria. 3 H’s, then, which are high, low, and high. That may be a central triangle as follows:

A logical extension of this to encompass the whole Diagonal:

Baker stands at 139 139 104 Lanestris, examing art (“Wizard’s Tower set” by Sarrah Docherty) in yet another Virtual Chelsea Hotel gallery space that The Diagonal passes directly through.

The Rubi Diagonal crosses the corner of a 512 square meter, banned parcel called Pitch Black near the center of Lanestris, not owned by the Chelsea Hotel group and probably predating its origins. The village was most likely built around this 2010 purchased parcel, in other words. Is it representative of a central black hole, perhaps?

The only structure on Pitch Black is this nondescript, 20 prim “purple tower house”. Baker Bloch stands at 086 086 014 to take these particular pictures.

Still in Lanestris, The Diagonal also knives through this mesh bristo that Baker Bloch can’t properly see with my outdated viewer.

Let’s go up The Diagonal to, well, let’s first visit VWX Town and Westside. Cardboard Derek Jones is super-excited to find The Diagonal passing through this erected pillar at 125 125 046 Philudoria. This is a repost of the last photo from “Around VWX Town 02.”

011 011 032 Scotopteryx: a Route 5 Texaco.

Baker on the edge of Heterocera’s eastern sea at 102 102 023 Scotopteryx.

The Diagonal at 079 078 118 Hooktip, just past Burnet. The SLRR develops into quite a maze of tracks in this sim.

The Rubi Diagonal almost passes through the exact center of the Hooktip railroad depot, with Baker here standing at 167 167 034.

Then continuing to follow The Diagonal north and east, we return to the complex sim of Lanestris dominated by the huge Virtual Chelsea Hotel. Let’s return to Lanestrum from the west, actually, where below we find Baker standing directly beneath a Chelsea Hotel sign at 211 212 081.

The first art Baker encounters on The Diagonal, continuing to trace its path to the east through Lanestris, is this tubed shell design by serra Qendra, on display at one of the many gallery rental units located in the Virtual Chelsea Hotel community.

The Diagonal then passes through this digital painting by bonafidenutts Aries in an adjacent gallery space (Lanestris 149 149 104).

The Diagonal disappears into this corner of the same gallery, between works called “Fire smoke and a thought” and “A long dark whisper”.

TEXT SOON.

Just when Cardboard Derek Jones was going to give up on arguing about Westside being unique and special, here comes the direct link to the Rubi Forest and the Rubi Diagonal. Westside *is* special!

RUBI DIAGONAL (EXTENDED):

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