| Perple_X is a collection of
Fortran77 programs for calculating and displaying phase diagrams,
phase equilibria, and thermodynamic data.The following directories contain uncompressed Perple_X
files.We will be happy to see you there!Lola is in Toronto for fashion week!Spring 2007 runaway show at Ultra Supper Club : join us this coming Friday 20 Oct, 2006 at Ultra Supper Club and get your medicine against reality!Summer 2007, while handing out free prescriptions against reality.Perplex and Lola take on the Black Gold Army in style."See a map of synonyms of perplex in the Visual Thesaurus."The first "season" of the game had players looking for "The Receda Cube" (referred to simply as "The Cube"), a priceless scientific and spiritual artifact to the people of a fictional metropolis known as "Perplex City", that had been stolen and buried somewhere on Earth.Like most alternate reality games, the story of Perplex City is told through blogs, puzzles, and other various media.According to Mind Candy, the first wave of cards for the new game season, called Perplex City Stories would be released on March 1, 2007.Perplex City
Perplex City is a massive fictitious metropolis that has an unknown number of connections to Earth.There is also a slightly more Utopian element to city life than we commonly find on Earth.Citizens of Perplex City
Key figures in city life include Sente Kiteway, Master of The Academy (The academy being an advanced learning institution in the city) and former custodian of the Cube.His two daughters, Scarlett and Violet, communicate regularly with the people of Earth through their blogs.Plot
Note: This section is about an alternate reality game plot, and, thus, any discussions of plot should be assumed to be fictional unless explicitly stated as real.In Perplex City, the Cube Retrieval Team (CRT) was formed to try to retrieve the cube.Sente Kiteway, Master of the Perplex City Academy, soon contacted Earth and asked its citizens for help in finding the cube, as the residents of Perplex City were not able to travel to earth.The thief who stole the cube, identifying himself only as "Combed Thunderclap"(CT), began leaving clues about the location of the cube on the cards.Pietro begins to investigate the theft independently.Monica and Pietro go to the Perplex City police and tell them all that they have learned about the Third Power and the Reconstructionists.The next day, Pietro is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and falls into a coma.He briefly regains consciousness two days later and constructs a maze.Four days later, he dies.Monica Grand is murdered.Her final words are, "We never held it", implying that the Third Power was foiled in their attempt to steal the cube.It is discovered that the Third Power has agents on Earth who are also looking for the Cube.Beit Quadrangle on September 19.The film shown at the designated theatres, which also displayed several images (including a diagram of the Cube which revealed its size to be 10 cms x 10 cm) was supposedly a trailer for an upcoming movie, The Receda Sign, and its website contained a contact phone number for The Receda Institute for Somnatherapy's automated telephone line.If players who dialed the number at night made it through a maze of extensions, they were given a set of GPS coordinates.Knowing that there must be a Receda website next on the trail, players did a search and discovered The Receda School of Music, leading to the next part of the trail, and what many people consider to be the highlight of the entire game.Receda's Revenge promised an adventure game like no other would soon begin.Although there is no location in Manchester called "Sky Centre", players who went to Manchester at the given time realized that this actually literally referred to the center of the sky.Earth to meet up in Clapham Common in London on October 22 to try to track down the Third Power on Earth.With assistance of players on the internet, players soon realized that the person who had organized the event was a member of the Third Power, and, what's more, there was a mole among the groups the whole time.In her research on the Third Power, Violet needs access to the diaries of prolific writer Anthony Grainier.She begins to post sections of it on her blog.Kurt skips town and gets arrested after messing up a Police raid on the Third Power, but he now trusts Helena.Kurt finds out that Miranda was the one who murdered Isaac.He enters, and a live event occurs to help Kurt get through the mine.As Wave 4 of the puzzle cards are released on Earth by Sente, he notices odd marks (named by Earth player "meta puzzles") that were not on the cards when they were designed.Nobody at the Academy knows how they got on there, but they put it from their minds as there are more pressing matters at hand.Finally, her body is discovered in the Catacombs.Although terrible, there is little time to grieve.Anna's memorial service, the Third Power manage to destroy Perplex City's connection with Earth.Cube Hunters on Earth spend a day of events in San Francisco performing a variety of tasks and solving several puzzles to restore the link.The link is connected, and the Third Power warns the Cube Hunters to stay away or they will get hurt.Back in Perplex City, Scarlett begins investigating puzzles left by Granier to his children.Scarlett, Violet, and Kurt head to the islands and discover the Lancewood Laboratory.They quietly return to Perplex City.Beginning of the end (September 2006)
Most players consider the beginning of the end to be when, in September 2006, the mysterious "Combed Thunderclap" began leaving flash animations on their website, "The Library of Babel".These puzzles were the biggest clues to the location of The Cube.The final clue posted on January 27 was a picture of The Cube buried in the ground, some trees surrounding it, and an odd wooden structure.Players on Earth helped the Perplex City Police infiltrate the security system of Ascendancy Point, a building believed to contain the headquarters of the Third Power.After a bloody assault, Scarlett was discovered severely tortured.Players quickly realized that the message referred to some amorphous blobs that had been put onto the fourth wave of cards.When properly assembled, these cards formed the Jurrasic Strata in England.Players coupled this with a clue from CT, "You will know which path to take when you find it if you know who I am", and assumed that Combed Thunderclap was Scarlett.To locate the Cube in the woods, players use the text from a card "The End of the Line":
"Precious are the stones my children, precious that which is dug from the earth.They mingled them with sapphires, so I threw them both from me.Only one choice remained and from then nothing was right.But after only 20 ammot the light was upon me.Precious, my children, is the light."Players believed that this directed them to take the purple path (amethysts) until it connects with the blue path (sapphires).Stop when you reached a quadruped, then turn your back to it and walk 20 ammots to find the cube.It was officially announced on February 2, 2007 that Andy Darley (Rand0m) had found The Cube in Wakerley Woods in England.Andy followed the End of the Line directions, and ended up taking a purple path, meaning that Combed Thunderclap was Violet.Andy was escorted to Mind Candy headquarters where he returned The Cube.The prize money was awarded to Andy at a large party held by Mind Candy on February 24, 2007.Theft of The Cube
After The Cube was found, it became clear that Violet Kiteway, Sente's daughter, had stolen the cube.She had learned that agents of a terrorist organization called the Third Power were planning to steal The Cube the night of the Perplex City Academy Ball.The Cube then transported Violet back to Perplex City.An example Perplex City card.Mind Candy sells a series of collectible puzzle cards.They are sold in booster packs, with each pack containing six random cards from the total possible 256 cards.The most common cards are red, then orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, and the rarest are silver.Instead, each card depicts a different puzzle, with the rarer cards also featuring more complex riddles.Cards are marked with unique identifiers which can then be entered onto the Perplex City website, earning points and a place on a leaderboard.Once players solve a card, they should go to the Perplex City website and enter the answer in.If they are correct, they receive points for the card, as well as a position on the chronological solves board for that card.If all four cards are solved by a player, they receive double points for each card in the set.Out of print cards
Currently, Mind Candy no longer prints two cards.While these problems have been rectified, Mind Candy has no plans to replace or reprint these cards in the future.ARG features
The puzzle cards are intended as an introduction to the characters and story of Perplex City itself, and the deeper mysteries of the Cube theft.Clues found on the cards direct players to various websites, blogs, emails, phone calls, and SMS messages, originating from Perplex City.These often feature puzzles of their own, whose solutions lead to further puzzles.Perplex City has been running since late 2004, much longer than the traditional ARG.Some examples of this include:
Players wrote a book to enable a character to become a "published author" and gain access to relevant archives.CD of cryptic techno music was released by a Perplexian musician.Manchester with a keyword that enabled access to a new area of the game.Mind Candy
Perplex City is notable within the ARG field for charting new water with a unique business model.ARG run by Electronic Arts, which received a poor commercial reception.By majority, most players seem to buy roughly 20 or 30 cards and engage in occasionally reading the web elements.On September 7, 2006, Mind Candy announced that GameStop was to begin carrying Perplex City cards in 700 stores in the United States.As of September 26, 2006, some 682,425 cards have been marked as solved on the Perplex City leaderboard, with 45,215 players registered.Index Ventures, an investor in Skype and other technology companies.In June 2007 Mind Candy announced that it would be putting season 2 of its ARG on hold indefinitely.Digital Treasure Hunt gets Winner, a BBC story.London Live Event from Perplex City official site.Besuchern ein geruhsames Weihnachtsfest und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!We know that we promised you that we'd be launching Season Two this Summer; we thought we would be too.Unfortunately, this is no longer going to be possible.Perplex City is, as you all know, an immense project.Equally huge is the amount of time, effort, and brainpower that you all put in to create the amazing community surrounding Perplex City.For this reason, we're holding off from launching Season Two for now.We want to reassure you that this is not the end for Perplex City; we've invested far too much love, time, and energy in this to stop now.What we have to ensure, though, is that we are creating something that is both fun and sustainable.Right now, we need to continue thinking about and then developing before we relaunch.If you'd like to know as soon as we break ground on the next season, please enter your email below.Thank you so much for your patience in letting us get things just right.Got Perplex City puzzle cards?Perplex is a thermodynamic calculation package suitable for rapidly creating phase diagrams of all types, creating pseudosections (phase diagrams that include only those reactions experienced by a particular bulk composition).Principles
In order to create a phase diagram, the identity, abundance, and composition of the stable phases must be determined for each condition over a range of pressure, temperature, composition, or some combination of these.Thermodynamics requires that the stable phases be those with the minimum Gibbs energy.This process is complicated greatly by the fact that many minerals have solid solution, and their energy changes with changes in their compositions.There are a number of optimizations that Perplex can use to speed up the calculation, especially with the advent of the 2007 version of Perplex.Composition diagrams show the mineral assemblages and ranges of mineral solid solutions at a specified P and T, for all the bulk compositions in the model system (e.Pseudosections show just those phase relationships for a specified bulk composition.Rock Property Calculations
Once a pseudosection has been determined, the properties of the rock can be calculated, including variables such as seismic velocity.Limitations
Univariant reactions in a petrogenetic grid are extremely useful in providing bounding constraints on the stability of mineral assemblages.However, petrogenetic grids, especially complex ones with lots of reactions, can be difficult to interpret, and most mineral assemblages in real rocks are higher variance.Most people are interested in specific mineral assemblages in the rocks they are studying, for which they have collected and analyzed.One caveat of the pseudosection approach is the choice of bulk composition.There are other thermodynamic modeling programs available, including THERMOCALC, MELTS, and TWQ.Each has its merits, and a comparison of these may be useful.In addition, because Perplex is so similar to THERMOCALC in its goals, a direct comparison of the two may be informative.Choose a model system in which to do the calculations (choose components).Decide which phase diagrams are to be constructed and, for pseudosections, choose an appropriate bulk composition.Here are links to worked examples from the Perplex website.Most of these are also included in the Learning Pseudosections with Perplex teaching activity.WERAMI to make a postscript file of your graphical output.Optionally, use a separate package (e.Adobe Illustrator) to read the postscript and print or manipulate the output.Connolly JAD (1990) Multivariable phase diagrams: an algorithm based on generalized thermodynamics.Connolly JAD, Kerrick DM (1987) An algorithm and computer program for calculating composition phase diagrams.This two week exercise, provided by Dave Pattison at the University of Calgary, includes problems sets involving phase diagram sections using Gibbs (for demonstration of principles) and Perplex.Phase Rule
Phase Diagrams (and Pseudosections)
What are Pseudosections?Paths
Advanced Modeling Programs
MELTS
Perplex
Perplex vs."Are you sure you want to block this user?Band MembersPerplex with her partner Nils Nusens is at the core of the composition and creation of Perplex.Gregory Bordin: lighting designInfluencesPerplex is influenced by visual artists, film and theater makers and choreographers as much as musicians: Calder, Buster Keaton, Joseph Nadge, Jacque Lecoq, Pina Bausch, Drum FM, George Clinton, Andrew Sisters, Jacque Tati, Kurusawa, Kusterica, David Byrne, Tom Waits, Prince .Sounds LikeThe Auburn Citizen critic wrote that Perplex sounds like a cross between Charles Mingus and the Doors!Perplex is a new creature, whose compositions are as tactile as they are sonic.The lyrics testify to a vigorous effort to survive in this absurd age where even the content of a tomatoe must be regarded with suspicion.These costumed compositions are strung together, alternating video pieces with live performance to create a multidisciplinary, one woman + five musician show, complete with catchy refrains and delicious grooves.Perplex has played in Paris at La Generale, in Lille, Moulins, at La Maison Follie, in Tribecca, New York on the Yankee Ferry, adn in Auburn, NY at the Auburn Public Theater."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"Next year i will be more free and adventurous!How's life treating you these days?Sending all sorts of "lovey Love" to YOU!!!!!!Can't wait for you guys to come back.You're keeping art alive.Thank you much for your friendship.Perplex
greetings from chicago!Enfin Perplex on my space !!!Big up a Vince et Didier pour les arrangents !!!Bravo a la Familly qui ne cesse de grandir.Merci pour ton univers, ta folie , ton FUNK tout simplement
PLein de bisous et a vite.Bien le bonjour a tous les tiens et a ceux qui bosse avec toi et dont on sent bien la griffe."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Id + " Link: " + targetLink. |
