The reduction or projection is only successful at a specific angle. Otherwise, it reveals nothing. There is a lot of noise in-between. The crystal keeps the information hidden and just by putting it under the sun, it shows the encrypted data. The parallel projection unfolds the crystal code, which is not apparent through the central perspective, in the shadow of the artifact that can be read differently. It keeps the information hidden under its noisy appearance.
The casting of the shadow reveals the quasicrystal’s nature, but only at specific angles. Everything in-between is a vivid state of indecisiveness. It shows nothing and keeps the information hidden. A flickering noise that jumps from state to state. The crystal is a three-dimensional key that incorporates multiple two-dimensional projection patterns. Every quasicrystal casts a different shadow. It is like a fingerprint encapsulated in a three-dimensional structure in which the code is only accessible through the third, the sun.
The sun acts as a translator, with the parallel projection being the universal language and shadow on the plane is the translation. But any conversion, such as the reduction of dimensionality, has its price. The projection acts as a plane renderer of the crystal, and the various renderings do not give a complete insight into the three-dimensional structure behind it. Only the changing position and trace of the sun in time in combination with the shadow defining the origin and reference of both unfolds the higher dimensional nature.