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[quote="jasonw"]Okay, we've made some progress on one of the images over a couple of hours here.

("We," in this case, being Jason, Sylvia, and Electric Keet.)

We got to the previously "de-noised" version of the lightcycles by swapping columns of color in the image region over into the region of color-bars, then shifting the image data left into the region with the rest of the image. Presto, lightcycles, as advertised.

So, we repeated the process, noticing that there seemed to be interleavable regions of color in different columns. We selected chunks of colors and brought them together, one column at a time. We did entire columns (to avoid having this just be wishful manipulation), modified by the "comb" pattern that we used to resolve the original image (because it seemed to be key to everything.)

We managed to get the colors mostly-coherent. The exact ordering of the color columns may not be deterministic (and may be wrong); we had to make choices when we moved columns around, and we often had nothing to go on about which side should be moved to meet the other.

The light and dark blue lines, and the background colors on the right, have a few interesting properties now:

The light and dark blue lines and the background colors repeat themselves vertically. There's a region that's yellow all the way across: that region marks the end of the pattern, and below it, the lines begin over from the top of the image. (Note: We did NOTHING to the image to move things vertically. This is a real pattern, we didn't make it.)

Also, if you treat the light and dark blue lines as interchangable, there are a pair of places where the pattern has symmetry for a large area around a point. More interestingly, they're IDENTICAL, save for colors (the backgrounds are different in both, and some dark lines are light in mirror-image, and from one cycle to the other.)

(By the way, we believe the double-wide blue lines are actually two lines next to each other, since we've found a place where there's a dark and light line together, mirrored with a double-wide dark line.)

We also noticed that there are seven colors used in the colored region, which correspond amusingly well to ROYGBIV. (We're calling the light and dark blue lines "blue" and "indigo" to make that correspondence.)

Nothing's immediately decoding here, so we thought we'd push this up to the collective brain before we go to bed or insane (not sure which would come first, to be honest.)

- Jason

(Edited to shrink image descriptions. Original image descriptions follow:)

colors resolved:
We swapped columns of colors (sometimes only swapping regions in the "comb" pattern of some lines but not others), in order to bring regions of like color together - this created new columns of color, and eventually resolved the colors to this.

symmetries highlighted:
We found some symmetric regions in the light-and-dark blue bands, where lines were identical out from a central point. There were two symmetric regions, and the pattern in both was identical. We've drawn white recticles around both regions in this picture

detail of symmetries:
This is a highlight of the symmetries we found, with a pixel-ruler drawn in on the left that we used to check some details.[/quote]

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