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[HaydenG]

[AngriBuddhist]

[Nightmare Tony]

had not been following friend threw me in here. would have thought alien point of view kind of thing. Call this one dumb, but on the negative image, there seemed to be HUGE channels, almost like some kid did some fingerpainting of a word.then when the picture is inverted, they simply appear as dark areas.

dunno, just throwing in my 2 cents. Been too insanely busy. If I have known it was ILB2, I would have jumped in. Sigh. Looks like it is sooo far along...

[eolith]

[Phyltre]

yeah, virtually nothing genuinely story-forwarding has happened yet so far as we know. There were demonstrations in cities, which led to a site, there was a comic posted on Halo3.com, there are 5 Forerunner data servers but only one is open now. Several mountains in Africa appear to be implicated by coordinates but we don't understand the reference yet.

That's pretty much it.

[J2G]

[Nightmare Tony]

k, so we definitely got a puzzle. LEts see what we got.

1. Not a real star map. Made by Photoshop, doesnt correspond to anything. So I am of the theory that we can discard that.

2. Is there a pattern to the star intensities or colors? Or the blank areas? Will a connect the dots give us Ovaltine?

Puzzle time. Puzzle time.

[IMightBeRusty]

This is difficult...but I'm agreeing with Urk. Hell, we don't even know for SURE when this picture was taken.

[Orin]

"I've been looking at the starmap again and I'm wondering if maybe it's not the surrounding stars that matter so much...

Ok, I still think the glyph's center is almost pointing at Polaris. That said, I don't think it's what is being centered by the glyph (that is to say what it's pointing at in the center of it's mass) so much as what it overlaps.

Look at the starmap image. If you look at the lines of the glyph, you'll see that at least 7 if not 10 of the stars in the starmap are on or adjacent to the lines that make up the glyph. I'm going to investigate this further as I have time."
Since I don't think any of the star positions on the glyph are above 255 degrees, in theory this could be a clue. Think it might help? Otherwise, we could just wait for registration at SotA to open up in a few days.

(copied from my hushed casket post as food for thought.)

[Preacher1311]

OK, so we now know that the image is one that was made. taking this into account, i think we need to look again at the constellation theory.

Because, now that we know the image is made by men, and men are flawed, it is entirely within the realm of possibility to believe that the constellations are menat to be there.

They were disregarded before, because they seemed stretched, or forced, but maybe that's because whoever was working on the star image placed them improperly.

My mind at work.

[Foxus]

I`ve been following this for a while, and have been playing with the StarImage1.jpg image, only in mspaint.

I can`t think how this will fit into the story, but if you perform a flood fill of white in any of the black area the result looks remarkably like an exploded jigsaw.

I`ve played with it for a while but can`t get it to make any sense. But thought I`d post just in case someone else can.

[WAL]

[Siege88]

Any ideas what that cutoff object in the top-right corner is? It seems to be the bottom of another glyph or a larger shape that's been cut off. If you zoom in, you can also see about 1 pixel of black above it which cuts it off pretty abruptly. If you look all the way across the top, there's pixel of black that cuts all of the stars off. The same thing seems to happen along the right side. That makes me think this image was definitely cut out of a larger one. Not sure how putting them all together would even help, though, because there's nothing I can find in the image.

[Awhite2490]

Second glyph

[Phoenixka]