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Master Mason
experimentNo. 0020categoryRituals & ceremoniesrecordingpendingrunsin browserdataCC BY 4.0
The fly is the candidate in a Third Degree ceremony of 52 stages following Duncan's 1866 monitor, representing Hiram Abiff in the legend of Hiram Abiff, through the raising and the closing.
Recording pending publication. Follow along for the release. Meanwhile, run it in your browser.
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Setup
- 28 articulated flies: the candidate, Worshipful Master, both Wardens, both Deacons, two Stewards, Secretary, Treasurer, Chaplain, Tyler, three ruffians, a sea captain and twelve fellow crafts.
- A cutaway lodge with officer stations, chairs, rods, aprons, altar, Bible, square and compasses, candles, pillars and a checkered floor.
- One seekable timeline lasting 18:17 at 1x; speeds from 0.25x to 4x.
- Five cameras: lodge, East, floor plan, following candidate and grave. Optional spoken cues and role labels.
Measurement
- Play ceremony starts live retinal acquisition: each window captures the canonical eye image and advances the model by ten 20 ms steps with retinal input only.
- Measure this view pauses the ceremony and records three identical retinal frames with seed 237, paired with a disconnected control. Full trials persist in SQLite.
- Movement and narration are pre-programmed, independent of the measured readouts.
Limitations
- Condensed wording, accelerated timing, illustrative room proportions and gestures modified for six legs; not an exact-duration or verbatim ritual.
- Not a claim that all jurisdictions follow Duncan.
- The legend of Hiram Abiff uses programmed object motion, a canvas and a symbolic fall.