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Solution to 'Stanton St. Bernard' 29.05.2005 I contributed some material a few weeks ago and a forerunner to this, some days ago to Mark, with no reply so far. Perhaps his email address has changed. I know that weather and global finance is weighing heavily on conditions in Europe right now, and perhaps the explanation lies there.
This follows the first email, where I indicated to Mark
that I saw no purpose in the design other than a puzzle
challenge for Photoshop devotees. However after some
thought, I changed the arrangement slightly and offered
an interesting (I hope you agree) interpretation.
The archive address for 'Stanton St. Bernard 29.05.2005'
is:
Milk Hill 2005
Michael Glickman contributed a solution to the puzzle
along with explanatory drawings, but I think you will
agree that this was one occasion when idealising the
proportions and shapes may not have been the intention
of the maker. Michael acknowledged the idealised process
in his notes. In my opinion, it is clear from the
attached that the departure from perfect symmetry was
deliberate and had to be absolutely precise in it's
execution.
I looked the formation up because a contact through CCC said she dreamed about it and another one I called The Haunted Hall (West Kennett Longbarrow 28.06 2007) BEFORE they were made. She wrote as follows:
"Looking at the images you have sent in your e-mail, I
have remembered a curious event: years ago I have
dreamed, in two different periods, two crop circles
BEFORE they were made (one of them is the Haunted Hall
Fig. 11). Then, time after, I have found them casually
looking the web site of LucyPringle.co.uk
This has no reason to be...I didn't know the meaning
before and I didn't know the meaning after. It just
happen...and it has never happened again."
I have added another comment to the previous file. I just realised that the formation's 'self-confirmation' is a master stroke. The maker could have made it look more like a jig-saw piece by changing the smooth curve to the familiar jig-saw 'lock' shape. But the undulating 'wave' pattern would not have appeared, which suggests that the 'wave' pattern is an important element in the design for some reason.
I have some further development to report on the 'underpants'
jig-saw piece. It's a bit astonishing for me.
The correspondent I mentioned who dreamed about this formation
before it was reported, had a feeling that the Y shape dividing the
formation was significant. In the photo that I worked with, the
'leg' of the Y is not as prominent as the V fork at the top (because
it doesn't throw a shadow, due to it's angle to the sun) but looking
at a shot from another angle, I can see that it is standing crop,
not a division in the lay direction, and just as prominent as the V.
My correspondent thought the bend in the leg of the Y was
significant.
So I traced only the Ys on a layer above a tight composite of 8
abutting jig-saw pieces, then deleted the jig-saw pieces, leaving
only the 8 Y's. A pattern of Ys remained. I made duplicates of the
pattern and abutted them together to make a netting pattern as
attached.
At first I thought 'it's just netting... so what?'
Then it dawned on me. Perhaps his represents the internet. The
medium whereby crop circle images and research is shared and
discussed.
Here's how I see it at the moment. The jig-saw piece was designed to
be assembled in the only possible way (because of that 'freehand'
curve). The Y shape is the essential element. It makes the net when
duplicates of the jig-saw piece are assembled together in the manner
as 'dictated' by the jig-saw pieces. The jig-saw piece is the
'carrier' of the Y shape.
The bend in the Y leg (I suggest) is because of the 'freehand'
nature of the Y. It is a bit 'skewed', wonky... not symmetrical, and
not standing 'square' with the jig-saw rectangle. This appears to
have been done purposely, so as not to convey a strict and regular
'mechanical' looking net, which it would have done if everything was
straight and square. It's more 'organic', so to speak.
So why give us a picture of a 'wonky' and 'growing' net?
It is sometimes expressed by researchers, that crop circles give us
pictures and symbols reflecting back to us our collective life
experience including past and present cultures. The internet is very
much current culture. You and I, my correspondent, the CCC site,
photographers, pilots, technology experts, have all contributed to
this report.
My hypothesis at the moment is that an unknown, but suspected
'aspect' of ourselves (sometimes sensed via hunches, feelings or
dreams) is attempting to convey to our 'everyday' aspect that it
does indeed exist, is very much alive and enjoying the crop circle
game. The variety of formations attests to the variety of interests
within our unknown aspect. We/they are not a boring, common bucket
of conforming 'souls'. We/they do it because our everyday aspect can
access technology that makes it possible. Our unknown aspect
actually requires our everyday aspect to assist. I am heartened by
what I call the 'innocence' of the formations to date. Not a hint of
violence or nasty stuff.
The black and white tracings I sent
recently showed the wavy edge while eliminating the straight
edges. If we say the jig-saw piece only functions as a carrier
for the Y segment, then every edge should be eliminated. It's a
shame in a way. I like the wave pattern, but I'm guessing this
is the maker's intention.
Meanwhile, the underpants 'jigsaw'
formation, yielded a further development when black and white
tracings were logically interlocked.
Best wishes, and thanks for the opportunity to share these findings
with others.
Jack Newnham
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