[HN Gopher] NKRYPT Sculpture
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       NKRYPT Sculpture
        
       Author : goles
       Score  : 198 points
       Date   : 2024-09-26 14:24 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | TheRealPomax wrote:
       | I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
        
       | pmayrgundter wrote:
       | quick observation..
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       | The layout of the columns is a "constellation" that looks like
       | the little dipper... same basic layout, number of stars, curve of
       | handle
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       | If so, the H column is the odd one out, and if you look for an
       | interesting star around there, I find a syzygy of k Cephius & HIP
       | 99169, tho distance away isn't quite right. Or maybe HIP 92738
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       | Also note that stars come up in the symbology for F column, which
       | is speculated to encode spectra, maybe from stars
        
         | gigonaut wrote:
         | Not sure if this is relevant or not, but it might be worth
         | adding that the little dipper is not visible from the southern
         | hemisphere.
        
           | lisper wrote:
           | Given that the sculpture is in Australia, that seems like a
           | plausible clue to me.
        
             | pmayrgundter wrote:
             | Yeah, it's a good point. The end of the handle for the
             | Little Dipper is Polaris, the North Star
             | 
             | I have it lined up now in Celestia, to see how it would
             | project relative to someone looking down on the columns in
             | Canberra from above, and seeing the LD thru the Earth. The
             | whole constellation is flipped left-right, and would always
             | be a bit under the horizon looking North, and skewed if
             | projected on the ground plane.
             | 
             | Also filtered down to only visible stars.. looks more like
             | HIP 90182
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             | https://www.universeguide.com/star/90182/hip90182
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             | Another thing, pillar 4 (pillar instead of column on
             | dcrypt.org) uses a constellation encoding
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             | https://www.dkrypt.org/Pillar_4
        
       | colinprince wrote:
       | see also https://www.dkrypt.org/
        
       | thebeardisred wrote:
       | My introduction to most of these ciphers has been through DEF CON
       | puzzles over the last 20 years. This is a fun way of seeing them
       | presented to the world.
        
       | trigganiggaz wrote:
       | "you are so ugly, you could be a modern art installation"
        
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