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2022-01-29: On marginalia

Updated LP source on this portal

Today I did a pretty hard job revamping my page with links to source images. Before, it was just 75 links, numbered, one after another without any structure.

Now I decided to make it tastier. The links are at the Try3301 index page, under the "Assets" header.

Here they are:

Liber Primus (solved transcriptions)

This one containes the transcriptions for solved pages along with accompanying links to source images. Note that I rewrote this by hand, so there may be typos etc. I mostly did this for reference.

Liber Primus (by sections)

This one presents subdivision of all LP pages by solved/unsolved, and by section.

Liber Primus (by informational clues)

Here, particular pieces of information present in LP are referenced, such as DWH or number squares.

Liber Primus (by marginalia)

This one I find especially interesting: all kinds of marginalia, sorted and with descriptions. Enjoy!

Marginalia

Some of the things about marginalia are interesting... I will just put it here in no particular order.

1. Things are kind of... sorted in patterns? Consider the sideview cicada.

Page 1: 2 cicadas. Page 9: one cicada looks west. Page 13: one cicada looks east.

Then:

Page 15: 2 cicadas. Page 16: one cicada looks west. Page 19(02): one cicada looks east.

See? There's a pattern: two packs of three.

2. Pattern of "one is not like the others". This happens with sideview cicadas, too, but also:

There are 3 cicada logos, only 1 of them small.
There are 4 lying men, only 1 of them headed to the east.
There are 5 pages with mayflies, only 1 of them is sideview.
There are 4 pages with crosses, only on 1 page there's a horizontal cross.
There are 4 pages with Mobius stripes, only on 1 page it's large.
There are 4 pages with the five-dot constellation, only on 1 page it's small and juxtaposed with the cross.
There are 7 pages with cuneiform, only on 1 page it's at the bottom of the page.

This all seems topsy-turvy, I know, but still.

3. 5-dot constellation (I was unable to think of a better name so I'll just use this one) exists in three varieties:

pointing northeast
pointing southeast
pointing northwest.

There's no constellation pointing southwest.

Crosses, Man and Constellation

Particularily interesting is this: there are three marginalias that kind of "converge" on page 39(22).

Three lying men to the west on pages 14, 15, 16; and a lying man to the east on page 39(22).
Three vertical crosses on pages 17(00), 18(01), 19(02); and a horizontal one on page 39(22).
Three big five-dot constellations on pages 24(07), 40(23), 73 (56); and a small one on page 39(22).

See? That's curious. What's with this page? This juxtaposition ends a pretty long section which starts with the fibprime spiral. Of all the disconnected and seemingly random LP marginalia themes, this one manages to connect three of them.

This section, by the way, also starts with a big Mobius stripe, small versions of which exist on the same three pages where vertical crosses exist: 17(00), 18(01), 19(02).

I tried to visually (poorly) depict this pattern on this image.

Illustration