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cool movie

just a few more days.

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It has something to do with avatars...

EDIT: Then again I might be wrong. I thought it was accessing http://avatars.macheist.com/ and I still think it was doing that...

EDIT 2: It wasn't accessing http://avatars.macheist.com/ but I still think the image is about avatars

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Nice, that looks really cool.

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could be

looks like a match to me

but then again. it could just be a coincidence

we'll have to wait and see

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The spiral's growing.

I just did a little testing with the mainframe picture and the devonthink logo in photoshop. Heavily zoomed in and flipped upside-down the devonthink logo sort of fits but its no exact.

I'm just not sure how DEVONThink being at the center of this image will segue into the first official Heist.

I could be totallty wrong, but I'm not seeing how DEVONThink's Logo could fit into Heist 1.

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What if the puzzles in this heist lead to the software? The intro showed process with 2 empty squares next to it on the original home page. Maybe this fills in one of those squares. Just a thought on how devonthink could be linked. Probably not right but fun to speculate anyway:).

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Those two squares were filled by the two apps unlocked in the warmup round, Pandora's Pests and MacDust.

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I also don't see how DEVONThink will fit in, as it technically cannot be part of the bundle (no repeat apps, even upgraded version numbers - afaicr from the excluded apps thread...)

I have a feeling any nice spiral would fit nicely if rotated and resized...

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i am not jumping to conclusions here, just examining all possibilities.

it is either: just a spiral, devonthink logo, or X

X= something unknown/random

it probably is not just a spiral, because it should do something with heist

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The DevonThink logo is just a nautilus spiral shell, one of nature's implementations of the golden ratio. The spiral that's showing up on the mainframe is too tight to be that.

Why do people seem to think they have the right to not be offended?

Was just about to say that. The hunt for shell-shaped/spiral-like logos continues!

PS:-Are you sure no repeat apps? Cause the blue in the image is too much to ignore at the moment. all the other colours are being pushed outward.

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DevonThink 2 is beta right now, and perhaps a major 1 to 2 release would be considered an exception for the repeat application "rule"?

http://www.devon-technologies.com/produ … hink2.html

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Not to be super anal or anything, but the Nautilus shell is actually a logarithmic spiral, not the golden ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus#The_shell); although there is a special type of logarithmic spiral called the Golden Spiral, the Nautilus shell ain't it...  Still, both are quite common in nature.

However, now that the spiral on the mainframe as resolved a bit more, it doesn't look like either type of spiral.  Both (golden or logarithmic) increase their width logarithmically--that is, the distance from the one loop to the next should get significantly bigger with each pass around the center, but it doesn't look to me like that's happening in the mainframe image.

EDIT: Okay, I'm an idiot and can't read, since a bunch of people already said this right above me.  Nonetheless, it's not the (current) DEVONThink logo.

All is obviously speculation at this point, but from an earlier (now buried) thread:

(this thread)

But.  Speculation.  MHIII will be a surprise, regardless.  And that doesn't rule out other DEVON apps, or rule out possible loot.

The spiral could be a pretty background, a hint for the next heist, or a giant cyan herring.

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I would highly doubt it was devonthink, I bet they're probably a bit annoyed with it looking like that and being speculated.  I would think that if it was in the bundle or loot they sure wouldn't want to make it known and cut down sales for a month while everyone waits for it. I bet even now people are waiting for it which might be hurting them.  Plus it doesn't feel very macheisty to make something that's that noticeable halfway through.

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Yeah, it's definitely not the DEVONThink logo (which does have the correct proportions for a nautilus shell), as it doesn't....

I can't imagine DEVON being irritated, though; they don't have a say on the use of every spiral ever, and it's not their fault people are confusing the two.  Okay, well, maybe they're irritated, but without much cause, it seems...

I'm sure this thread has driven some eyes to Devon's web site, and helped spread the word about Devonthink 2.0.

Don't see how they could be irritated at all. Plus Deveonthink is a pretty good app.

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I bow to one with better maths skills to draw on. My point was just that it's not necessarily resolving into the DevonThink shell logo. To my eye, the spiral remains too tight to be logarithmic. Heck, squint just right and it could be either a top-down or bottom-up view of a spiral staircase.

Why do people seem to think they have the right to not be offended?

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now the thickness of the spiral is changing!
this is exciting. could it be the devonthink logo after all

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Interesting, though, that the "dark line" of the spiral is now (or has just become apparently) transparent.

It looks to me like the static going down the drain as the decoder progresses...

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Really though, there was a slight chance before that the spiral could reveal the logo. Now, it's just not happening.

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Yeah, this is kind of annoying, actually.  Unless the spiral starts expanding around the edges but not around the center, it is NOT DEVONThink.  Period.

I do kind of like the idea of a spiral staircase, though...

The 'DEVONthink' notion is dead!
It was "close... but no cigar!" (I recall that being an old 'Carnie' saying' from an old movie)

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i change, now i see why it will not be devonthink.
I do not have much use for devonthink anyways.
Now the white is filling in the color spots
The white is now forming another spiral

a few ideas:

I outlined the parts that are unusual.

Any other ideas?

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I also think the spiral staircase seems a likely case, I did however also think about the possibility of a snail shell so I google imaged search for Snail Shell Logo Mac and amongst the links got taken right back to Spiral Staircase

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. . . . . . maybe not

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I still don't see how an application in the middle of the vortex will be able to lead into the first missino of MH III, but once again, I suppose I still could be wrong.

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Yes, yes! Thats exactly what it is! Lets have more speculation! Lets have more controversy! Thats what this thread lives on!

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There are three "notches" in the spiral, or missing pieces, as of right now. I would not be surprised if the heists had something to do with finding those pieces.

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Well I suppose they might cut it short, presumably there will come a point in the next 7 days where the image becomes recognisable. After that the countdown will become somewhat meaningless. After all given the increments it has changed in so far how different can it look with one day to go as opposed to two?

It will be in its final phase soon, judging by the past phases. Anyone able to make a video with all of them on randomscripts? Also, there seems to be a couple of numbers not moving.

Wow. MacHeist 4. I can't believe it's actually happening.
Unfortunately, it looks like I'm sitting this one out because of aggressive version requirements. It's been real.

And the rest of them are moving much more slowly.

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In 7 days the spiral could completely disappear, revealing something totally different... very inventive way to keep all of our anxious minds busy!

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There are two things I've been thinking about regarding the spiral:

1. It looks like it could be kind of fractal-ish, although that really doesn't help at all.

2. There are many instances of spirals in Aquaria such as the nautilus, a plinth from the Song Cave, the door in the song cave (whose spiral fits perfectly if you superimpose it on the mainframe image, etc.  Hmmm.

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Nautilus Prime from Aquaria's graphics file also fits perfectly over the mainframe image without even resizing it.  More hmmmmmmmmm...

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Ya, that's right. I got that by googling "squiggly lines" .

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Or, it could be all ending up with a cross-promotion with Nine Inch Nails and "The Downward Spiral".

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