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[PUZZLE] October 9 pictures at paintover
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ecwilder
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 		ugh maybe not. its late my eyes play tricks!

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Monki wrote:
Since this IS the PUZZLE folder.. shouldn't they come here?

(i'm just lazy)

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Yeah but we're better looking Wink
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Tonamel wrote:
So we have file numbers 1, 4, 9, and 25. All perfect squares, except 16 is left out. Why?

Well, the roots are: 1, 2, 3, 5.

Can you say Fibonacci? I'm betting the next file will be 01000000.jpg, for 64, root 8.


Not Fibonacci, that starts with TWO 1's - 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...

Not Primes, that starts with NO 1's - 2, 3, 5, 7...

The thing behind the congrats looks a lot like America

There is a faint image of a Brain on the bottom drawer (more prominant in the blue channel)

And that's all from me for a bit..
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winjer509 wrote:
here it is with just black and white, i knocked out the file cabinet (i think it's irrelevant, if anything the clue is in the dots)


I'm not sure but I think that some of the pixels in the cabinet are the same color as the dots. Is there a way someone could check that?

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 		Re: Technicallity
Marl64 wrote:
Monki wrote:
Since this IS the PUZZLE folder.. shouldn't they come here?

(i'm just lazy)

-Monki


Yeah but we're better looking Wink


Hey, you are saying that to a guy with PATRICK DUFFY as his avatar... don't get me started...

If I only took as much effort in my Rhetoric class as I do in this... I'd be a 4.0 student...

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NjWebGuy
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 		i don't know if this has been metioned but the iframe is named Poe, Edgar Allen Poe died in front of a Tavern and the site is A Tavern.Pointe Production.

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winjer509
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 		I'd scratch the star thing... i checked out an online chart, there doesn't seem to be a match there.

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 		Synapse anyone?

Marl64 wrote:
There is a faint image of a Brain on the bottom drawer (more prominant in the blue channel)


I can see it, but I can't get my apps to bring it up any more.

Look between the card slot and the handle.


isolated blue channel of JPG

It could be like TV snow, and I am getting tired so my eyes could be acting up, but I thought I'd just pop it in before I go
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Tonamel
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 		Sorry, I don't see anything there.

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Marl64 wrote:
Tonamel wrote:
So we have file numbers 1, 4, 9, and 25. All perfect squares, except 16 is left out. Why?

Well, the roots are: 1, 2, 3, 5.

Can you say Fibonacci? I'm betting the next file will be 01000000.jpg, for 64, root 8.


Not Fibonacci, that starts with TWO 1's - 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...

Not Primes, that starts with NO 1's - 2, 3, 5, 7...


Uh, why not primes? It's 1, 2, 3 and 5 squared so far. Like someone mentioned, the only missing one in that sequence is 4 squared, which is 16.

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Marl64 wrote:
Not Fibonacci, that starts with TWO 1's - 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...

Not Primes, that starts with NO 1's - 2, 3, 5, 7...


Fibonacci: I think we can excuse the two one's. They would both map to the same file anyway, so the second one would get lost when translated to the filesystem.

Primes: 1 is a special case. It is neither a prime nor a composite number (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html). I think it is fair to include 1 in the list. Also, primes would fit in with the title of the image: "Grabbing Internet Files, A Primer."

Unfortunately, the squares of the next number in either sequence, converted to binary, with various extensions (gif, jpg, png, swf, as well as the fifteen-or-so "carelessly" extensions we discovered previously) do not bring about a file. I also tried the square of the next prime (11^2), with nothing useful resulting.

The file cabinet picture really interests me, though. I have tried a variety of steganography tools on it (gifshuffle, gifextract, etc) don't seem to yield results. It might be worth noting that the image is the most simple gif available: the old GIF87a format, which does not support animation nor run-length compression. By all appearances, it looks like it is terminated properly (i.e. there's no "extra data" appended to the end after the image data)--but I might dig into the specific frames and file internals tomorrow, just in case.

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enidcoleslaw
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 		It can't be primes because 1 isn't prime.

The Fibonacci sequence makes the most sense to me -- they couldn't fit two files named 0000001 on the server, so they started as close to the beginning as they could get.

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Tonamel
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 		The next prime would be 7^2, but there's nothing there, either.

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 		Anyone think those dark spots in the Congrats picture might perhaps be "little boxes"?
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zina
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 		I've been lurking for months -mainly following Chasing the Wish . This is my first post so - - don't shoot .

Now, my thought is that if you turn your head to the left when looking at the first filling cabinets image, it says "i o" input/output and of course Io is a moon of Jupiter.

On the bigger picture it's "ioi" which looks less meaningful, except that it resembles binary.

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