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Ingress is a virtual relaity video game which includes a "glyph hacking" minigame which is basically a shrt-term memory test. It involves drawing figures on a template of dots or nodes (in a hexagonal arrangement) according to rules involving drawing lines between dots.
My mind being what it is, I keep getting distracted by wondering how to go about figuring the total number of possible glyphs.
I figure the number should be finite since you can, in principle, connect all the dots following the rules.
There are many ways to draw each glyph but it is not just a matter of traversing the dots - you have to traverse the path (though you can start from anywhere on the path). But I keep getting bogged down with trying to get a systematic way of counting the possible paths.
For details:
https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/4574603?hl=en
http://glyphtionary.com/
My mind being what it is, I keep getting distracted by wondering how to go about figuring the total number of possible glyphs.
I figure the number should be finite since you can, in principle, connect all the dots following the rules.
There are many ways to draw each glyph but it is not just a matter of traversing the dots - you have to traverse the path (though you can start from anywhere on the path). But I keep getting bogged down with trying to get a systematic way of counting the possible paths.
For details:
https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/4574603?hl=en
http://glyphtionary.com/