Part of it is now clockwork, which interfaces with the ant-farm via a paternoster the ants can ride on that turns a significant cogwheel. The wizards could then use punch cards to control which tubes the ants could crawl through, enabling it to perform simple mathematical functions.īy the time of the novel, Interesting Times, Hex had become a lot more complex, and was constantly reinventing itself, meaning several new components of it were mysteries to those at Unseen University. In this form it was simply a complex network of glass tubes, containing ants. Hex has its origins in a device that briefly appeared in Soul Music, created by Ponder Stibbons and some student Wizards in the High Energy Magic building.
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