In a email from Parkaboy to Cayce he updates her on his process on decrypting the mysterious T-shaped like map they received from a Japanese game developer (in exchange for a photo). His friend Darryl and another friend of his developed software that would recognise objects based on their shape. What it ended up matching in the end is some dangerous explosives. Read quote!
"The T-thing Taki sent. Darryl got all hacker on that, whit this buddy of his in Palo Alto who`s one project to build a new kind of visually based search engine. Buddy has these bots that are CAD-CAM-based, look for things on the basis of how they`re shaped. Darryl got him to send two out, one to search for a section of the map that would correspond to the streets in the T. That was the ones they had high hopes for, but it came up zero. The other one was kind of an afterthought, find something shaped like this T-shaped thing. Well, they got a 100% match-up on 75% of Taki`s T. Except for the branch with the ragged edge, this looks exactly like one specific part in the manual arming mechanism of the US Army`s M18A1 Claymore mine, which is basically a wad of C4 explosive packed behind 700 steel balls. When the C4 goes off, the balls come out in a 60 degree pattern that expands to six feet; anything closer than 170 feet (with trees or foliage in the way, milage may wary) is thereby made hamburger. Used for ambushes, remotely detonated. Looks sort of like an overweight but very compact satellite video-dish, rectangular and slightly concave. Don`t ask me: its what the bot brought home. Will you call me please, NOW and tell me EVERYTHING? p. 273-274
| Title | Publication Type | Year | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pattern Recognition | Narrative, Novel | William Gibson |
