Fringe Symbols
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The Fringe symbols, or "glyphs", have been shown on the show, on posters, and on the Internet. Each glyph show a natural element, generally with some unnatural change that is easy to miss at the first look. The symbols are also used, along with the dots, to make a code.
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[edit] Apple
| The Fringe Apple glyph has human embryos instead of seeds.
Apples were given out as clues on the Fringe Scavenger Hunt.
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[edit] Butterfly
| The Fringe Butterfly has x-rays of human carpals, meta-carpals and phalanges (all finger bones) for its wings.
Video: Butterflies are seen in the Fringe music video - "A Forest" |
[edit] Flower
| In the Fringe Flower glyph some of the petals are dragonfly wings. Like any daisy, the center has counter-rotating spirals, based on the Fibonacci sequence, and has left-right symmetry. |
[edit] Frog
| The Fringe Frog glyph has the Greek letter Phi on his back.
Video: See the animated Fringe Frog |
[edit] Hand
| The Fringe Hand glyph has six fingers. |
The Hand appears to have a significant importance with the series as a whole as it is used in every single episode in the title clip.
Additionally, there seems to be a pixelation artifact that has appeared on the hand during the title sequence in at least the last five episodes of season one. The artifact appears in the part of the hand just below the "pinky" finger on the palm, and has an arc-like shape.
[edit] Horn
| The Fringe Horn glyph is in the shape of a Fibonacci spiral and has the number Phi inscribed along the horn.
The appearance of the horn glyph was the starting point for the 1.61803398874989484820458683436563811.com website. |
[edit] Leaf
| The Fringe Leaf glyph has a triangle, or Delta symbol on it.
Leaves were given out as clues on the Fringe Scavenger Hunt. It appeared during the pilot episode when John Scott's body was taken into a Massive Dynamic lab.
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[edit] Seahorse
| The Fringe Seahorse glyph has the Fibonacci spiral on its side, the spiral itself is contained inside a visual representation of the golden ratio. Its tail is also a Fibonacci spiral. Some images also include stick diagrams for the amino acids L-histidine and L-proline. |
[edit] Smoke
| The Fringe Smoke glyph forms a woman's face. |
[edit] Yellow Dots
| Yellow dots appear in many of the images containing glyphs, and on the various Fringe viral websites. They generally tend to float around, like fireflies, and can be associated as they appear in each episode to a specific dot on the Fringe Carousel which also appears to change with each commercial during the live broadcast. They suggest the likeness of Kirlian photographic artifacts, except that they are different in color from the glyph images. |
