[Broklynite]

I thought of that- but the number of pixels missing is fairly small. Finding such a small number (often one single pixel by itself) against a white background? Sounds a little extreme, I think.

Then again, maybe not. I mean, why else repeat it twice?

[MOVIELORD101]

Re: Code

[Guest]

Code

[myestro]

so movin forward..what do we do with all of these numbers? and we have lots of them. (reverse engineer the logic of a "next" code)

If the numbers are not useable "as is" (like wallet codes or derez codes)...we need a cipher right? to turn them into something useable...but so far there is no logical cipher....but then a "cipher" for what? more alphanumeric info or a 'word".

Did we ever have to cipher codes before for derez? I thought they were used "as is" from the tshirt black lights.

to me it does not sound logical to cipher an alphanumeric string into another one....without a blatant "key"...gibberish for more gibberish...did other ARG do this?

Most "ciphers" on internet serach turn gibberish into a "word" which makes sense...as a tactic to point us to a "website" or web extension.

The alphanumeric gibberish could be a website too....like lightcyle drawings...but so far no such luck right?

The binary codes all sound logical (like the tron chest plate binary) at least that generated a 'relevant"group of numbers to open up the discussion forums like a "key pad".

Did any of 42e's other ARGs have codes like this that were super HARD to crack?

[Broklynite]

Hm. Are we certain that the first 5 is actually a five? It looks like three horizontal lines to me. Yes, I know they match up with the five, but it still might just mean a break. Also, the second to last digit- might that be a C rather than a 0?

[myestro]

Hazado wrote:

Broklynite wrote: Er...sorry, did you post the correct image? Because I don't see what you're referring to here. Darkened the letters for you

I forgot all about these...thanks for reminding us....

BTW - looks like the same 12 digit format as the Tron Card Wallet Codes...too bad they don't work when you input them in as is at Zero Hour.

Thats crazy that this number sequence is 1 pixel wide and you have to fix contrast to see it.

[myestro]

Broklynite wrote:

I had initially thought that the blue lines were maybe a barcode, but I only saw them being one pixel thick, so I suppose that rules them out. I'm not 100% about where to go from here, but you guys are doing some amazing work.

...might be far fetched...but if you notice "most" of the blue lines are either 2 lines together or 1 line by itself. there are a few places where it is very hard to determine if the grouping is 3 separate singles or a double and a single (for example)...but am wondering if it is 'binary" code. 1 line = 0 2 lines = 1?

what do you guys think?

[Broklynite]

Ohhhhhhh- thanks!

[Hazado]

Broklynite wrote:

Er...sorry, did you post the correct image? Because I don't see what you're referring to here.

Darkened the letters for you

[Broklynite]

Ah- is it white spots against the background or something? I'm on a projector- the color control is a tad...wonky.

[OusterSwarm]

I can still see it fine but then again I know what I looking for. You may have to turn up your monitors contrast a bit.

Here is a copy with the text boxed in. I hope that helps.

[Broklynite]

Er...sorry, did you post the correct image? Because I don't see what you're referring to here.

[OusterSwarm]

I totally agree about it all blurring together…

Also here another reason why I am causes about information made out off single pixels.

This has already been posted on the trailhead by MrToasty but I will post a unenhanced version at 200% size from my work just to show people who haven’t been able to find these yet for themselves how hidden it is. It took me a bunch of tries to see this even though I could tell where it was form MrToasty post .




As you can see the text here is actually composed of single pixels so there a some possibility there may be single pixel based data in the color image.

Another thing that weird about this case is there an extra copy of the text in this image were no one has reported something like this on the second image yet. Either way I was thinking at fist that this may be used as a decryption key. But I’m not so sure that possible given that there two
0s and 5s but they both have different missing vertical lines. (The Gs do have the same vertical lines though). Of course I suppose it possible that it a variable length encoding of some form at work here that may re encode duplicate data by combining it with other data like an LZW algorithm. But that would probably make thing very complicated to decode and I don’t think you could use this as a key if that was the case. But here the binary I extracted for the text none the less encases someone has another idea.

The underline represents unknown regions do to the spacing between characters. Also the 1 and 0 were chosen arbitrary.

1=part of the number was there
0= if it was blank

X 7 G 9 0 5 5 V 4 G 0 1
10101__11101__110111__11101__11001__01110__11001_11001110_110111__11100__10111

[myestro]

You are right false 5 color bar shift ...I was just glancing at the green line like a "registration" line...mayub that is what it is upposed to be?

thanks for catching that...when you stare at this thing for so long all the colors blend together.

[Broklynite]

I had initially thought that the blue lines were maybe a barcode, but I only saw them being one pixel thick, so I suppose that rules them out. I'm not 100% about where to go from here, but you guys are doing some amazing work.