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[SOLVED] Marcus's Metadex files (dimitri.zip) [Nov 6]

[yeahyeah]

Theres already a thread in general about this, didn't seem like a puzzle at that point, its can be found here
If need be, it could be moved here.. Dunno, just wanted to point out that there have already been some observations and speculation on the subject..

[bakntime]

Ok, how about this:

I can see six possible combinations for each "pixel" or square in tapestry:

1) Full solid black
2) solid white
3) black triangle in lower left
4) black triangle in lower right
5) black triangle in upper left
6) black triangle in upper right

By this "method", the first 5 "squares" are:

solid black (1), solid white (2), solid black (1), black triange upper left (5), solid white (2), black triange upper right (6)...

Of course, this number scheme is arbitrary (I just randomly picked which number would be which kind of square).

By this method, we could have every 2 "squares" representing one letter - because there are 6 combinations for each square, 6x6 for 2 square pairs would be 36 combinations...

[yeahyeah]

which leaves enough 'address space' for numbers and letters.. but no spaces or special characters

[Nursie]

I posted this:

[bakntime]

[bakntime]

Just messing around here:

If we assume that 2 blocks = one letter....


==1st block==

= 1
= 2
= 3
= 4
= 5
= 6


==2nd block==

= A
= B
= C
= D
= E
= F

In this fasion, although it's arbitrary, we've got 36 combinations.

Some examples:

1A
4F
3E

Even though the code is arbitrary, each pair of squares has a unique code consisting of the first block (number) and second block (letter)...

Now, from watching the movie "Contact", I'm thinking that maybe the first 62 (36x2) boxes are the "key" to the code. In other words the first 62 boxes represent possibly the entire alphabet plus numbers 0-9 in this manner:

first set of 2 boxes = a
second set of 2 boxes = b
third set of 2 boxes = c

etc...

Therefore, by my guess,

would equal the letter "A"

would equal the letter "B", and so on....



I don't have time to test this right now.... But it's a possibility...

(I hope you don't mind me using your images Nursie)

[Nursie]

[bakntime]

I could be barking up the wrong tree here...

Perhaps this is like a "slide puzzle"

Moving each strip that is one "square" wide either up or down a certain amount will result in some picture becoming evident...

Just another possibility I'm throwing out there.

[bakntime]

[Tian]

What should be a B occurs more than one time on the first line.

Trying to do this on column leads to the same problem (some patterns are more than one time).

So this cannot be the solution (but it was really a great idea).

[WedgeGold]

[bakntime]

[Nursie]

It still doesn't render the underlying principle obsolete, just the key idea. It's still possible to decode using princsiples of frequency of letter occurence in the english language. Assuming of course it is english......

I could swear that I've seen barcode technology like this, but I can't hit the right google search terms just now.

[Worker]

If this is binary (or 6-ary), wouldn't the pattern appear to be more random than it is? The big blobs of white connected to eachother just seem to form way too much of a pattern compared to the black.

I've attached the image with the colors inverted, just for a new perspective.