Puzzle #4 - Color Code

reply to post by Zarniwoop

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Ok, I see. Guess I don't have that feature, though. Might need a new Photoshop. Much appreciated!

reply to post by ragster

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I'm on the fast-track to learning gimp! Been playing with the color replace tools to do just that, hoping to reveal something that looks like it needs to be squished together.

reply to post by Freenrgy2

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basically what I am hoping is that we can knock off some not needed letters here



ABCDEFGHH JKLMNO NPDJCH GEJAGFQ BCMRKSEEB BSGLA



in the events we can find bars not worthy of being used.

reply to post by ragster

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Why do I see a bunch a squirrely colored bars when In invert the colors in MS Paint? I don't need to look at these?

reply to post by AshleyD

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Photoshop is nice but it costs $$$ and doesn't work on Linux without emulation

If anyone is looking for an alternative, GIMP (the amusingly-named GNU Image Manipulation Program) has gotten about 10x better in the last five years or so, it now pretty much does everything Photoshop does as well or better (with the possible exceptions of color separations and Pantone matching - if you don't know what those are, don't worry; I sometimes wish I didn't either).

It beats the heck outta MS Paint; it's free, and you can download it here:

GIMP for Linux
GIMP for Mac
GIMP for Windows

Ok let's start over..... what is it that we all are missing?

It said focus on the colors, right? the middle ones?

can we like use 16 as in pixels for moving the graph over 16 pixels, or such as in every 16 pixels rearrange the graph, it goes along with analyzing the colors, and also with past hints on how to figure it out.

I took the current image and squished it, you guys should check it out, it seems like the current image is way to spread out, height wise, needs to be crushed again, when crushed the color values change because of the gray lines across the image..

reply to post by ragster

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post it please. It sounds interesting

The current puzzle (#4) has been updated with the intent of helping to keep the game play moving in the correct direction.

I am laughing my butt off

thanks ATS!

but its funny

lets get crackin boys!




gotta love them double ciphers

forwards
SKEGRJAIH FWBLOX OPGFEH ARFSAJC HDJARWYYH HWXJZ

Reverse
ZJXWH HYYWRAJDH CJASFRA HEFGPO XOLBWF HIAJRGEKS






A double cipher




I am thinking we need to decipher these in stages, it is not laid out in any certain type of rail cipher or whatnot, unless double cipher means, the colors were a cipher and now the letters are.... ok i feel stupid now..

SKEGRJAIH = 9

FWBLOX =6

OPGFEH = 6

ARFSAJC = 7

HDJARWYYH = 9

HWXJZ = 5


[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

Lol... well, at least I feel like I was getting closer:



Yeah, yeah, I know, horseshoes and hand-grenades... I'm going to have to reverse-figure out how that was encoded, after looking at the cryptogram, in order to get some peace of mind...

I thought the last two letters of the first word were a repeat? Same color.

do you think we lose out on the book prize now hahaha lol


ok yea

I am still stuck in a stump

I cant decipher this..

They are, I was playing around with row #9, where they're not.

I also managed to get something similar to the actual answer a few days ago...

Mine was:

SJEGRIAHH FWBKOX OPGFEH ARASAIC JGKDWLRRJ JLABS

Which brings up the question:

How did you manage to get 2 different letters for the end of the first word in your answer?

Barbadel

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reply to post by Ian McLean

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actually that's row #16 if you count from the top row of the entire image. D'OH

ok i am just playing with words in the decipher stage


here are the randoms

panoply
sarod
snowfalls
sandy
harmon
hacker
eights
induct
hamper
camper
entry
setup
curls
demos
upland
evicts

I found out sandy harmon is a street basically in the middle of the USA

A panoply is a complete suit of armour



[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

The first four words of the 'first solution' are simply the sum of the green-channel values in rows 47+57 (rows 57+67, in the original uncropped image), converted to ASCII.

The last two words, however, are totally different!

Well, I am not so great at this cryptography stuff nor at photo editing but I do know how to have fun in paint. While "having fun" and using the bucket tool I found that various lines had color anomalies within them (ie one square or so was a different color). I saw Deaf Alien's picture on page 3 or 4 of this thread and decided to go ahead and alter it so only the lines showing those color anomalies were showing. My first thoughts are that the anomalies need to be taken out of the lines themselves (which I didn't do as I'm not sure which ones are the line's colors and which are the anomalies so I left that up to you guys to play around with. Aftr removing the lines, you get some random dots placed here and there, which my first thought was braile, but there are too many locations for that. Maybe you guys can make something of this. I just figured it was a different way to look at it. Hope it helps.

reply to post by AboveTopSecret.com

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can anyone explain what they actually updated?

strange for some reason the sites not updating maybe something to do with cookies
my wife just sent me the updated pic guess we got a big hint there.

hmmm

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