(06-05-2026, 05:52 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Amazing. I even though that it was an AI-generated image and the article was AI-generated slop. But the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for the town does mention that complex in one brief sentence, so I suppose it is real. How comes I never heard of it before?
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Perhaps the image of the Balaruc-le-Vieux circulade is AI-generated, the existing circulade seems much simpler.
One could draw an analogy with the legend of the city of Atlantis. According to Plato's dialogues
Timaeus and
Critias, Atlantis was designed with five main layers (five concentric rings of alternating rings of water and land and a central island).
(06-05-2026, 05:52 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Amazing. I even though that it was an AI-generated image and the article was AI-generated slop.
It looks very fake.
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(06-05-2026, 01:25 PM)nablator Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It looks very fake.
Indeed, thanks! I see two places that could be the real circulade:
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I suppose that the plan of those round Medieval towns was based on that of the 10th circle of Hell that, according to an unfortunately lost Canto of Dante's Divina Commedia, was reserved to those who try to pass AI-generated images as real photos. (Maybe AI now can reconstruct those lost verses?)
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Your first link is some relatively modern houses in a roundabout formation. But the second one must be it: narrow medieval streets and it includes the town hall and the church.
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The main issue with the lunar roundel is that the 11-fold concentric-layer design is rare and probably of non-European origin. A limited number of examples can be traced to You are not allowed to view links.
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I am open also to the possibility that the 11-fold multi-layer lunar roundel could possibly be of European origin.
This could be an example of lost knowledge, a depiction of a fully functional and quite unconventional pocket volvelle based on the 11-day lunar-solar discrepancy that drives the entire 19-year Metonic cycle, the Golden Number, and the Epact (the foundation of the medieval computus).
One can also find the number 11 closer to home:
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