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krukef

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The Recursive Amethyst
« on: December 28, 2008, 04:26:51 pm »



Nothokog, The Obeisant Club, a perfect amethyst:
This is a perfect amethyst. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.
On the item is an image of The Obeisant Club the perfect amethyst in Amethyst.


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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2008, 04:28:18 pm »



Nothokog, The Obeisant Club, a perfect amethyst:
This is a perfect amethyst. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.
On the item is an image of The Obeisant Club the perfect amethyst in Amethyst.


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Oh I get it. Ya that would be cool dood.
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2008, 04:41:11 pm »

I wonder how many times he had design that weapon on that weapon?
(Since the image of that club is infact the club, wouldn't he have to draw the image again and again?)
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2008, 07:14:37 am »

I wonder how many times he had design that weapon on that weapon?
(Since the image of that club is infact the club, wouldn't he have to draw the image again and again?)
Not more than a couple thousand times. After that he reaches the nanometer level and you can't really draw lines thinner than one atom.
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2008, 07:18:49 am »

I wonder how many times he had design that weapon on that weapon?
(Since the image of that club is infact the club, wouldn't he have to draw the image again and again?)

...Weapon?

It's a gemstone. It just got named like that.

Anyways, i'd like to think that it's recursive by some clever carving which shows a 'reflection' of itself or something.
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2008, 07:22:43 am »

HOW

If it's got an image of something on it surely it is not perfect.

The only thing that could make this better would be if it had actually been called 'The Perfect Amethyst'.
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2008, 09:50:46 am »

See, it's got, um, reflective, um, surfaces inside it, um, or something, yeah, that reflect itself back out, and, um, maybe it's, um, like layer or, um, something, yeah?

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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2008, 11:41:19 am »

I wonder how many times he had design that weapon on that weapon?
(Since the image of that club is infact the club, wouldn't he have to draw the image again and again?)
Not more than a couple thousand times. After that he reaches the nanometer level and you can't really draw lines thinner than one atom.
He's a dwarf.
He can carve on protons if he wants to.
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2008, 12:00:10 pm »

It's quite simple:
It is a perfect amethyst, no?  Then its edges are straight lines.  This lines form a 3-dimensional image; the image of itself!

Like I said, simple  ;D
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2008, 02:29:29 pm »

I wonder how many times he had design that weapon on that weapon?
(Since the image of that club is infact the club, wouldn't he have to draw the image again and again?)
Not more than a couple thousand times. After that he reaches the nanometer level and you can't really draw lines thinner than one atom.
He's a dwarf.
He can carve on protons if he wants to.

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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2008, 03:34:38 pm »

'Pico-femtotech', a dwarfen cultural birthright.
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2008, 03:51:12 pm »

I wonder how many times he had design that weapon on that weapon?
(Since the image of that club is infact the club, wouldn't he have to draw the image again and again?)

...Weapon?

It's a gemstone. It just got named like that.
Well, it is something that dwarves call "perfect".  And for dwarves, being able to kill things is a prerequisite for perfection ;D
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Re: The Recursive Amethyst
« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2008, 09:30:05 pm »

And for dwarves, being able to kill things is a prerequisite for perfection ;D

Considering that Dwarven adventurers are quite profficient at mutilating others with the art of "Use-whatever-is-in-your-hand", that prerequisite is like telling a dwarf that he has to be able to drink alcohol.
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