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Sanborn's Antipodes Sculpture
by Elonka at 3:58 am EDT, Aug 27, 2003

Update: Various photographers (some who wish to remain anonymous) have been sending me pictures of the Antipodes sculpture at the Hirshhorn.

For those who have been following the story in my blog, this sculpture was particularly intriguing because it appeared to have the complete text of the Kryptos sculpture upon it, *and* the complete text of the Cyrillic Projector, and an additional 20% or so of other ciphertext in both languages.

It was my hope that perhaps there was extra text on the English side which would shed a clue towards cracking Kryptos. As it turned out, there *is* some additional ciphertext on the Cyrillic side, which does not appear anywhere on the Cyrillic Projector. On the English side though, it is just a mix and repeat of the code sections that are already on the Kryptos sculpture.

It's still useful though, because it is reassuring to see that Part IV is exactly the same length on Antipodes, as it is on Kryptos. There'd been some speculation that Kryptos part IV might only be the first part of a lengthier code, with the rest of the ciphertext "sucked into the whirlpool", but Antipodes seems to show that this is not the case.

Pics are now online, along with some additional info about the sculpture. Big hugs and thanks to all you anonymous photographers out there! :)

RE: Sanborn's Antipodes Sculpture
by Dr. Nanochick at 12:24 am EDT, Aug 28, 2003

Elonka wrote:
] Update: Various photographers (some who wish to remain
] anonymous) have been sending me pictures of the Antipodes
] sculpture at the Hirshhorn.
]
] For those who have been following the story in my blog, this
] sculpture was particularly intriguing because it appeared to
] have the complete text of the Kryptos sculpture upon it, *and*
] the complete text of the Cyrillic Projector, and an additional
] 20% or so of other ciphertext in both languages.
]
] It was my hope that perhaps there was extra text on the
] English side which would shed a clue towards cracking Kryptos.
] As it turned out, there *is* some additional ciphertext on
] the Cyrillic side, which does not appear anywhere on the
] Cyrillic Projector. On the English side though, it is just a
] mix and repeat of the code sections that are already on the
] Kryptos sculpture.
]
] It's still useful though, because it is reassuring to see that
] Part IV is exactly the same length on Antipodes, as it is on
] Kryptos. There'd been some speculation that Kryptos part IV
] might only be the first part of a lengthier code, with the
] rest of the ciphertext "sucked into the whirlpool", but
] Antipodes seems to show that this is not the case.
]
] Pics are now online, along with some additional info about the
] sculpture. Big hugs and thanks to all you anonymous
] photographers out there! :)

This is really neat stuff, Elonka:) - Nano

Sanborn's Antipodes Sculpture
by Rattle at 2:19 pm EDT, Aug 27, 2003

Elonka Sanborn research update: Various photographers (some who wish to remain anonymous) have been sending me pictures of the Antipodes sculpture at the Hirshhorn.

Pics are now online, along with some additional info about the sculpture. Big hugs and thanks to all you anonymous photographers out there! :)

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