Tower Floor -- Graphical Algorithms

The stonework of the floors and walls of the room is covered in some sort of paper like material. Drawn all over this material are Numerous diagrams and colorful images. For example: here you can see a line which no matter how close you look does not seem to have a straight line or even a gentle curve in it. And over there are outlines of a various soccer ball like objects.

A wrought iron staircase spirals out of the floor of the room and continues up through the ceiling. On the up side of the spiral a loose sheet of computer paper has been tacked with the words Ascii Art typed in large letters. While on the wall on the other side of the staircase is the word Postscript with the starting letter `P' surrounded by thin construction lines and circles, showing how the letter was designed and drawn.

On the floor to the left of the staircase the `paper' like material has been ripped and torn up to reveal a large white marble circle set in the original stone floor. You think that the dwarven workers may have gone a little overboard in the papering of this room.

A few scroll racks are scattered haphazardly throught the room in no apparant order. On the racks the following scroll sets can be found....

 Name                             Description
 algorithms.txt                   Simple Graphic Algorithms
 bezier.curves                    Bezier Curve Notes
 bresenham.procs                  Bresenham Algorithms
 djvu.txt                         Format for scanned Documents
 fig_format_notes.txt             Xfig file format Notes
 font_handling.txt                Handling Fonts, such as TrueType
 graph_drawing                    Drawing Graph Networks
 image_comparing.txt              Image Comparision and Sorting Ideas
 imagemagick.txt                  ImageMagick Hints and Tips
 imagemagick_CLI_Programming.txt  
 imagemagick_Core_Programming.txt 
 imagemagick_perl.txt             ImageMagick via Perl
 mandel.txt                       Drawing Mandelbrot Fractals
 mathematica.txt                  Mathematica Hints and Tips
 matrix_vector.txt                Vector and Matrix Notes
 mesh_programs.txt                
 pbmplus_summary.txt              
 pyrmaid_images.txt               
 remote_control.txt               Remote Control of Image Display
 sixel.txt                        Sixel Terminal Graphics
 voxel_editors.txt                
 xv.txt                           XV Hints and Tips
 xv_mods.txt                      Modifications to XV !!!

	C/fixpoint.txt	My notes on Fixed Point Integers
	C/fixpoint_macros.c	Fixed Point C Macro functions

On one wall in particularly bold writing is an equation. You are not quite sure of its significance, but is obviously important some how.

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/ _  _ | _| _ _            __                  ______  __
\__)(_)|(_|(-| )   ___    / /  _     _        /  ____| \ \     __  ___
    __            |___|  | |  / |  _| |_  __ / /| __|   | |   / / |_  )
   |__)_ |_. _    |___|  | |  | | |_   _| \ V / |__ \   | |  / /   / /
   | \(_||_|(_)           \_\ |_|   |_|    \_/  |___/  /_/  /_/   /___|

                    =     1.6180339887498948482045868343656381177203
 Aside...
    ( v5 -1 )/2     =      .6180339887498948482045868343656381177203

You can go..