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Dionysus

Well, for soem reason I keep thinking I see numbers popping out of the movement of the static almost liek a magic eye... its probably my
imagination.

I opened the gif as with notepad, but there doesnt seem to be anything there, at least not in the first or last lines where stuff is usually hidden.

I'm working on destegging right now using "Daddy Promise" and "DaddyPromise" as passwords. Camoflage gave a nogo, Im gonna try jphide (as that was used before) now.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:36 pm

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Ofiuco

Dio, I see something too, although I have a headache. STILL

I opened it up in my handy-dandy animation-maker program, and while it does have 7 frames, they all look essentially similar to me. Nothing pops out immediately. When I get some more time I'll take a closer look at it.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:14 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Tried de-stegging using GifShuffle and password "Daddy Promise" and "DaddyPromise".
Edit: Sorry for not seeing Dio's earlier post.
GifShuffle was a no go.

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**Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:27 pm

Ofiuco

[humor]

**Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:41 pm

Dionysus

Re: [humor]

**Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:57 pm

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grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

i'm fairly certain that the file is an animated stereogram. but since i've never been able to see those things, i don't think i'll be much help here.

i received an email from Seth, not sure if it'll help though. maybe telling us to stare at it some more? Laughing

**Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:41 pm

Dionysus

I'm begining to think it may NOT be a stereogram. But then what else could it be? It'd be nifty if there was like an actual image that the white noise was overlayed upon, but since its such a simple .gif, I dont think its that.

If someone with the appropriate equipment could post each of those 7(?) frames of the gif seperatly or as a ZIP, itd be appreciated. I dont have the software to pull it apart and would liek to look at each individual image.

EDIT: IDEA! What if it ISNT one stereogram, but several? What if each frame of the .gif.. each individual piece of static.. is its own seperate and unique stereogram?! I can neither see stereograms nor, like I said, do I have the software to pull the gif apart so someone get on this!

**Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:25 am

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mapmaker

Hope this helps. I've tried looking at them separately, but I personally have had no luck. Maybe someone else?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:44 am

Rogi Ocnorb

Tried to get the individual images to "pop" as 3D stereograms with no success. Had the little woman try as well as she usually sees them easily. Also a no go.
Also tried tiling them into various larger pics by putting them in different 3x2/2x3 configurations. No success, there, either (Low likelihood with 7 images, anyway)

**Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:20 am

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Sherlock_Holmes · Boot Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 57

I have seen many images inside the static (individual frames), including, but not limited to: faces, eyes (lots of them) a fishhook, and animals. I will be posting a photobucket link here so that you can see everything. The Photobucket!!!

**Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:16 pm

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Rogi Ocnorb

I'm convinced it has to be steg and tried all the tools I could figure out how to use at http://www.stegoarchive.com/.
Now I gotta get all the crapware off my machine. On the graphical side, there are a lot of "almosts" in the frames if you play around with the highlight, midrange and shadow values, but nothing that equates to text or images with any certainty. Tried shrinking images both vertically and horizontally also.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:00 am

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grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

looks like it's not a stereogram afterall:

**Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:01 pm

mapmaker

Another approach is obviously necessary. One possibility is using a graphics program to overlay the seven images in some manner, just like tom_in_bristol did.

The only problem: there's like 4000000 ways to do that - layer order, variable opacity, and overlay method can all be varied. I've tried a number of different ways in the GIMP, but have by no means exhausted the possibilities.

Just for fun, here are two of my results, in which each layer is twice as translucent as the one below it. The former is with image 7 on top (and thus the clearest), and the latter is with image 1 on top. As you can see, nothing really shows through.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:56 pm