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[nhansard]

SD5/My Games/coloredgrid.jpg

[tomtom224]

Just a few notes about the Grid:
-There are eight of every color except for Black and White
-There are ten white block and six black blocks
-There are two of each color in every row, except for White, which starting from top to bottom rows goes "4, 3, 2, 1," While the black boxes do just the opposite, "0, 1, 2, 3."
-The black and white boxes fit together if moved all the way to the right. In that case, you would have something like this:

[vector]

As I have recenly been thinking of an encryption scheme based on the color values of a grid, I thought that possably Virgil was thinking the same thing. here are the values as found in Paint.

B R Y G W BL
Red 227 255 255 217 255 0
Green 239 227 255 255 255 0
Blue 255 226 203 216 255 0

Hue 79 1 40 79 160 160
Sa 240 240 240 240 0 0
Lum 222 226 216 222 240 0

[Dr. Jinx]

I think that there's a link between this and the sourcecode file.

The source code of "sourcecode" defines many more colors than it needs to. (For example, .style2 {color: #FF0000} is red) If you assign the style number to the color for each color in the grid, using X for black since it is not defined in "sourcecode", you get:

[vector]

nevermind

[nhansard]

possible fill-in-the-blanks idea?

[tomtom224]

[tomtom224]

Sorry for the double post guys, but something just occured to me.

While in the chatroom, and looking through this thread again, I saw nhansard's last post, and it caught my interest. If it is a fill-in-the-blank type puzzle, I think that the same colors would signify the same letters.

This lead me to believe that there might be slight changes that we can't really see to each color, and we might have to enhance the change. If anyone has a program that can identify exact colors, like Photoshop or something, could you check this out?

Also, if you highlight the grid on the Ian-Net page, every other line comes up with a small dot at the cross of the horizontal and vertical lines. I'm not sure if this is normal, but could it be to tell us that we should look at this in boxes of four (2x2)?

[SuperJerms]

[johnny5]

Can someone try this as an alternate palette for the large kidsart pictures?
I don't have a program that will do that.

[SuperJerms]

These pictures have quite a bit more color depth than the grid does, thus there isn't one obvious way to swap the colors out. What did you have in mind?

I did quickly mess with the saturations, color balances, and tried some other color tweaks to look for hidden messages within each pic. Nothing turned up. As far as swapping each individual color like I did in the colorgrid, well...colorgrid had 86 colors to swap. These have 24 million. Aside from that, word is not a friendly program for extracting pictures, so I don't know for sure that I didn't accidentally convert them to a different file format in the process (thus changing their color schemes).

If I were designing a puzzle that used very specific color values, I would use gif, png, and possibly bmp--not word or jpg. That makes me think we're barking up the wrong tree here.

I did see one other notable thing in these pics. When I finally extrapolated them from word (with three different methods), most of the resulting files had a verticle resolution that differed from the horizontal (the pixels weren't square). That's kinda odd.

[johnny5]

Yes, i was afraid of that.
I tried to do it in Gimp where I converted the pic to indexed and tried to repalce the first X colors with the grid, but no go.

You are correct that it's most likely the wrong path.

[colin]

This reminds me of the game 'master mind' linky (google "mastermind game" and you'll get heaps of stuff about it.)

How that helps anything get solved I don't know....

Also, trying to sample an exact colout from a JPG is risky, since JPG is a lossy format it will change colors to get better compression.

[SuperJerms]

[Alc]

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