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.hints                 Simple Graphic Algorithms
 bezier.curves                    Bezier Curve Notes
 bresenham.procs                  Bresenham Algorithms
 fig_format_notes.fig             Notes on the Xfig file format
 font_handling.hints              Handling Fonts, such as TrueType
 graph_drawing                    Drawing Graph Networks
 image_comparing                  Image Comparision and Sorting Ideas
 imagemagick.hints                ImageMagick Hints and Tips
 imagemagick_CLI_Programming.txt  
 imagemagick_Core_Programming.txt 
 imagemagick_perl.hints           
 mandel.info                      Drawing Mandelbrot Fractals
 mathematica                      Mathematica Hints and Tips
 matrix_vector.hints              Vector and Matrix Notes
 pbmplus.summary                  
 xv.hints                         
 xv_mods.hints                    Modifications to XV !!!

	C/fixpoint.hints	My notes on Fixed Point Integers
	C/fixpoint.macros	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..