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Endnote 223: Medusa-v.-Odalisque Fourier gloss

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Viz. at the allusion to the supposed samizdateur’s anticonfluential and meta-entertainmentish and hologram-intensive Medusa-v.-Odalisque thing, which in fact the play-within-film fight-scene part can be broken down into a series of what are called ‘Fast Fourier Transforms,’ […]

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The lethal-sight apparatus (roster 085's Medusa/Odalisque entry) re-described in signal-processing terms: the play-within-film fight scene "can be broken down into a series of" Fast Fourier Transforms — math done on the image, the hologram fight as decomposable waveform. "Hologram-intensive" keeps the diffraction pedigree in view (098's samizdat theory), and "the supposed samizdateur" tags the whole gloss as Entertainment-adjacent hearsay. The note's ALGOL dead-end (untraceable on two Grids) is lexical, not optical — left.

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