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Aja Lonely Fan
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RedRevolver Devoted Fan
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Odd... _________________ KateModern or we eat YOUR children.
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TOSG Devoted Fan
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Hmmm, very interesting!
I'm not sure what to make of it - do we think that there's an associated puzzle?
Either way, I'm happy to see that FacilityJ is back! _________________ I'm canon; the Creators just don't know it yet. |
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silverblue Enthusiastic Fan
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Well, that's different. _________________ Yeah, you'd better run! |
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ignatzmouse Enthusiastic Fan
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TOSG wrote: | Hmmm, very interesting!
I'm not sure what to make of it - do we think that there's an associated puzzle?
Either way, I'm happy to see that FacilityJ is back! |
Huh, what, er, wakes up from deep sleep...
The puzzle looks to me like this image at the end:
It's a 30x10 grid of four colors. My first thought was that each color is two bits in an ASCII sequence, but a) this would be 600 bits, which isn't a multiple of 8, and b) I'd expect to see more repetition in the pattern, which a quick eyeball isn't giving me.
My second thought is that it's a DNA sequence, and that there's a mapping from {B,G,R,Y} to {A,C,G,T}. We're missing the codon shifts to decode it with though.
Hoo boy, back in action... _________________ Facility J: Will the last disgruntled employee to leave please destroy The Cure? |
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phipunk Casual Observer
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:18 am Post subject: |
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ignatzmouse wrote: |
The puzzle looks to me like this image at the end:
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My thought exactly.
Another thought: both "division" and "power" have nice mathematical meanings. Jay has used titles as clues/keys before. (The key to knowledge is understanding --> "understand" was the vigenere key, if I remember correctly).
Ugh, have to do some real math at work now, instead of the fun math here. _________________ scientia ex silico |
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deagol Thor's Hammer
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a transcript:
b=blue, g=green, r=red, y=yellow
Code: | ybbybrrrybbbbyyyrrbryrbrbbbbbg
rrybrrbgrrrbrbbrrbryyyrrbyygry
bbrrrbbgyrbybyrbgbyrrbgbbrbyry
bybbybryrbgrrgybrggrrbbrgrbbbr
rrbbrrybgbyyrbbrrybgyrbrrbbrrb
rbbyrbbrbbyrrbbbgrbbgbrbbbbbrb
rbbgbyrybbyrbrybyrbrbrbryrbrgr
bgbryyygrbrbybbyryyrgrbyryrgbb
gbbbrybrbyrbbrgrggrgbyrrbbybyr
ybybrbryrbrybbgrbygbrbgrrbyryr
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ignatzmouse Enthusiastic Fan
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deagol wrote: | Here's a transcript: |
You are a more patient man than I am... We could try eliminating the obvious, and trying each possible mapping of {b,g,r,y} into {00,01,10,11} and running them through the binaryomatic. There's "only" 4! = 24 possible mappings. _________________ Facility J: Will the last disgruntled employee to leave please destroy The Cure? |
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Aja Lonely Fan
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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ignatzmouse wrote: | deagol wrote: | Here's a transcript: |
You are a more patient man than I am... We could try eliminating the obvious, and trying each possible mapping of {b,g,r,y} into {00,01,10,11} and running them through the binaryomatic. There's "only" 4! = 24 possible mappings. |
Uh, good luck with that! _________________ Hey... Aja!
You can find me on MySpace, MyTube, MyIRC and now MyBebo! |
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deagol Thor's Hammer
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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iMouse! Whatsup man...
I tried with 16 of those and out comes pure garbage. As phipunk said, text encoded as binary would have much more structure. More specifically, the first of every 4 colors should almost always be the same because the first 2 bits in the ASCII code of all letters (upper and lowercase) are 01, numbers are 00, and anything starting with 10 or 11 is extended ASCII, i.e. garbage symbols. This is not the case here, neither reading horizontally or vertically.
Color frequencies:
Code: | b 114 38%
r 99 33%
y 58 19%
g 29 10%
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deagol Thor's Hammer
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Increased contrast and brightness:
Red channel: 157/300=52%
Binary transcript:
Code: | 100101111000011111011101000000
111011001110100110111111011011
001110001101011000111000010111
010010111001101010011001010001
110011100011100111001101100110
100110010011100001000010000010
100001110011011011010101110101
000111101010100111110101111000
000011010110010100100111001011
101010111011000101001001101111
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Green channel:87/300=29%
Binary transcript:
Code: | 100100001000011100001000000001
001000010000000000011100011101
000000011001010010100010000101
010010010010011001100000100000
000000101011000001011000000000
000100000010000010001000000000
000101010010001010000000100010
010011110000100101101001010100
100001000100001011010100001010
101000010001001001100010001010
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Blue channel:114/300=38%
Binary transcript:
Code: | 011010000111100000100010111110
000100100001011001000000100000
110001100010100101000101101000
101101000100000100000110001110
001100010100011000100010011001
011001101100011100110101111101
011010001100100100101010001000
101000000101011000000010000011
011100101001100000001000110100
010101000100110010010100010000
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Anybody see anything? |
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ignatzmouse Enthusiastic Fan
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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deagol wrote: | iMouse! Whatsup man... | Facility J appears to be up. As does MA and KM, but there's not much puzzling to be done over there.
deagol wrote: | I tried with 16 of those and out comes pure garbage. As phipunk said, text encoded as binary would have much more structure. More specifically, the first of every 4 colors should almost always be the same because the first 2 bits in the ASCII code of all letters (upper and lowercase) are 01, numbers are 00, and anything starting with 10 or 11 is extended ASCII, i.e. garbage symbols. This is not the case here, neither reading horizontally or vertically. | I could have sworn I said that Good point re the lack of a repeated pattern every 4 colors.
deagol wrote: | Color frequencies:
Code: | b 114 38%
r 99 33%
y 58 19%
g 29 10%
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| Is there such a thing as frequency analysis for DNA? TOSG? _________________ Facility J: Will the last disgruntled employee to leave please destroy The Cure? |
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TOSG Devoted Fan
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ignatzmouse wrote: | Is there such a thing as frequency analysis for DNA? TOSG? |
Not really, as such - all of the bases are generally distributed roughly equally.
This puzzle is a stumper! _________________ I'm canon; the Creators just don't know it yet. |
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phipunk Casual Observer
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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ignatzmouse wrote: |
deagol wrote: | I tried with 16 of those and out comes pure garbage. As phipunk said, text encoded as binary would have much more structure. More specifically, the first of every 4 colors should almost always be the same because the first 2 bits in the ASCII code of all letters (upper and lowercase) are 01, numbers are 00, and anything starting with 10 or 11 is extended ASCII, i.e. garbage symbols. This is not the case here, neither reading horizontally or vertically. | I could have sworn I said that Good point re the lack of a repeated pattern every 4 colors.
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Yes, credit where it's due: you were the one to point that out.
You also observed that 600 is not a multiple of 8, which I think nails this down as not ascii. Unless it's done with 6-bit ints, and we need to pad the bytes with ... no. Not gonna go down that road.
Of course, as has already been observed, 300 is divisible by 3, which would put us in the difficult position of having 100 bases without really knowing what to make of them.
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deagol wrote: | Color frequencies:
Code: | b 114 38%
r 99 33%
y 58 19%
g 29 10%
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| Is there such a thing as frequency analysis for DNA? TOSG? |
There is BLAST. I don't know how to use it, but I've got a friend who's an expert. If someone could give me the 24 possible sequences that result from mapping RGBY to GCTA (scripting is honestly not my strong suit) I can pass it on to him and see what pops to the surface, if anything. PM me and I give you an email address to send it to. _________________ scientia ex silico |
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deagol Thor's Hammer
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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phipunk wrote: | ignatzmouse wrote: |
deagol wrote: | I tried with 16 of those and out comes pure garbage. As phipunk said, text encoded as binary would have much more structure. More specifically, the first of every 4 colors should almost always be the same because the first 2 bits in the ASCII code of all letters (upper and lowercase) are 01, numbers are 00, and anything starting with 10 or 11 is extended ASCII, i.e. garbage symbols. This is not the case here, neither reading horizontally or vertically. | I could have sworn I said that Good point re the lack of a repeated pattern every 4 colors.
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Yes, credit where it's due: you were the one to point that out.
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I'm so sorry ignatz, I got confused when reading phipunk's post quoting you, even though he only quoted the image!
phipunk wrote: |
You also observed that 600 is not a multiple of 8, which I think nails this down as not ascii. Unless it's done with 6-bit ints, and we need to pad the bytes with ... no. Not gonna go down that road.
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hmm... I could've sworn 600 was a multiple of 8.
*thinking 300.. 150.. 75*
err... I'd hate to correct not one but two of the smartest mathemageek guys I've met, but...
ok let me make sure
*takes out calculator*
hmphh, damn it guys, I think this computer calc (and my brain) must be broken!
*passes Zi's crayons*
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