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Prestidigital Logic Explained

scarybug

on Feb. 10, 2007

I was looking through some old notes I made from college, and I noticed a few pages where I'd found all the correspondences to the 16 Geomantic Figures from the Golden Dawn tradition and applied them to the corresponding truth tables of the 16 possible binary logic gates (can you name all 16?)

Then I spend most of today figuring out the two logic gates I could use to get the above effect of alternating X and Y inputs when both outputs were set, but which would not act as a clock when one or both of the outputs were zero. Prestidigital Logic is harder than Digital Logic because you can't just use a Karnaugh map to find an optimum circuit. You have to fit the gates into the right part of the sigil. It's fun making up new psuedosciences!