• Re: ASCII Of? [Device] *revealed*

    From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.art.ascii on Mon Oct 10 15:47:28 2022
    On Tue, 30 Aug 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

    the answer is HELIOGRAPH.

    So that's the formal term of mirror-flare-in-the-sun! TIL

    Honestly, the very first thing I thought of was LIGHTHOUSE
    (but the alphabet chips lacked "T"), then the light's irregularity
    made me think of SIGNAL FLARE, SPOTLIGHT, SEARCHLIGHT (but their letter
    counts didn't fit) and FLOODLIGHT (alphabet chips lacked "D", "T",
    and didn't have enough "O" and "L").

    I think the mirror-flare-in-the-sun popped up in my mind at some point,
    but I didn't know what's the term to call it; so I just let it rest.

    Regards,
    ~xwindows
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