Pillar 6

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Pillar 6 in daytime

Pillar 6 contains a grid of dashes and dots, a series of Enigma-style rotor scrambling wheels, two lines of alpha text and a series of numbers around its base.

Dot Dash Grid

If the dots and dashes represent Morse code characters (likely, given the use of Morse code during WWII use of the Enigma machines), this is not a trivial problem to translate the tract of dots and dashes into letters, without any obvious letter separator.

Large view of the Dot Dash Grid

.-...-....-.-...--..--.--..-.--..-..-..-.--.-..----- .--...-----...-...-.-----.......----.-......-.--.... ...-..........-.-.-.........-.......-...-...-....... .---------..---.-...-..--..-.--.-...-..--.---.-...-- ..----..--.--..-..-.......-......--.....-.-----.-.-- ............-.-.......-.....-...-.....-.-........... .-...--..--..----..-----..-..----.--.-..-.--..-..--- ..-----...-...-..----...-.-...-.-.-----.-...--..-... .....-......-.........-.-.-.-.........-...-.....-... ---.-.-.....-.-..--.-.-.-.------.--.....-...----.... .---..-..--.-.....-.-----.--..-.--.-----.-.-....-... .....-....-.-...-...........-.................-...-- .--.---..--.----..-..-.--...-..-...--.-..-----.--.-- ---...-...-......--.--...-.--...-..---......----.--- ...-.-..-.-.-.-.......-.-.....-.-.-.....-...........

Rotor Wheels

The pillar has four Enigma-style rotor wheels, and one reflector wheel. Above the first rotor wheel is the alphabet. The four rotor wheels move freely between incremental stops. The reflector wheel is fixed in position. Each wheel (including reflector) has triangular markings that can be aligned, presumably to indicate a starting rotor position.

Rotor wiring was determined by visiting the sculpture and following each "wire" with a fingernail, and marking where it terminated. It's possible I have made mistakes - but I did run a few checks after typing it all out that seem to indicate that they're correct (no duplicates etc).

Rotor 1 "wiring"

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

UDBCFGEJHILMKTSNOPQRWXYZAV

Rotor 2 "wiring"

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

BZCXWHIFGLMJKVUPSQRTONEDYA

Rotor 3 "wiring"

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

ZADEFGCHMIJKLOPQRNWSTUVBXY

Rotor 4 "wiring"

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

BDFCEGIJKLSMAZNHOPQRTVXUWY

Reflector "wiring"

ABCDEFGJNOPSVW

ZYVMLIHKURQTCX

Reflector "wiring" with duplicates/pairs

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

ZYVMLIHGFKJEDURQPOTSNCXWBA

Alphabetic code

There are two lines of text below the rotor wheels. They read:

DL BIOB AXQC NLPA MNXE SBNT FJLD

KH JAWS FDHD MATX EJHM PVUJ XJOM

Base

A string of numbers run in a circular pattern around the base

10 10 11 12 11 13 14 15 30 3017 18 12 12 8 10 14 14 19 22 12 12 11 13 7 7 8 8 14 17