Some brief studies to express my (mostly affectionate but come onnnn) annoyance at the part of my mind I call the Pattern Recognizer

See, for me having a very active pattern recognition subroutine means having

1. an extensive mental library of lots and lots of random scraps of information I’ve somehow picked up from all sorts of fields…. often without context or real-life connections archived in my memory

2. A search function that VERY actively scans the mental archives, finds different pieces of information, and improvises connections between them.

(which are SOMETIMES useful. SOMETIMES.)


Which is why I portray this little bastard as half Tron 1982 Recognizer, and half the logo of the Internet Archive



(ah who am I kidding. It picked out the symbols itself. Typical Pattern Recognizer behavior)


sketches of the Pattern Recognizer. first, a design adapted from the Internet Archive logo, with the inner two columns shortened, the outer two columns equipped with Recognizer-like inward-pointing feet, and a small triangle hovering over the center of the roof to form the Recognizer head. Then three anthropomorphized sketches, giving the Recognizer a mouth and eyes on that triangle, and styling the outer columns as feet and the inner ones as arms. First a small hopeful smile, with hands together. second, an enthusiastic grin, arms thrown up in the air. Third, angry, with arms folded.ALT


And an example of a typical interaction:


Aster, a human lying in bed trying to sleep, with the Pattern Recognizer hovering over her. it says, TRON WAYNE. She mutters WHAT, and then asks, Is this like a pun on John Wayne? it simply repeats, more enthusiastically: TRON! WAYNE! Aster says, No. Not the time. Need to sleep. It frowns, dejected and upset.ALT
Aster tries to sleep, while the Pattern Recognizer stews for a moment, angry. then it suddenly bursts out, more enthusiastic than ever: TRON WAYNE LE GACY!! Aster buries her face in the pillow saying Nooooooooo. ALT
Final panel, she turns back to it and asks Was this inspired by Bruce Boxleitner acting in Westerns? To which the Pattern Recognizer exclaims, BRUCE WAYNE!!ALT