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Robin
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 		Luck?
Anyone had any luck with that barcode?

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BrianEnigma
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 		It seems to have gotten a bit larger now (912 x 212), complete with an HTML comment apology of sorts:

<!-- My mistake... too small. Sorry about that. - Nightingale -->

I transcribed it by hand last night to a set of ws, ns, wb, nb (wide/narrow space/bar), but am not up to doing that again right now. At lunch, I'll probably just write a quick app to do it for me. I have the image loading code already, so it's just a matter of traversing a pixel array. And who knows? I may just need to do it again at some point in the future. Maybe I'll eventually add analysis to it too.
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Medemia
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 		Whoa, that just changed in the last 5 minutes...

good catch Bri

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 		It is Code 39 / 3 of 9.

It starts out *SPIDE

I'm using http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/39code.html
for my conversion chart.

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 		In code 3 of 9, it's
*SPIDERRESEARCH.COMP*

I don't know what the P is for, because as was pointed out in #unfiction by dach, www.spiderresearch.com is a valid address for a Stockholm company.

/me discards the P

sapagoo

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Medemia
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 		So anyone want to try to decifer the bar code above the negative picture on the home page?

I could swear I've seen this picture before... it looks like the Los Angeles skyline..

edit: It is: http://www.california.worldweb.com/PhotoGallery/CitySkylines/10-946.html
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 		K1 and Spider Market Research
Ok, well, sorry its taken so long, but I have a nice story here for you.

Following the map leading to Kulturhuset, a friend of mine noticed that K1 is an art exhibition in their schedule, that opened at the given time. (http://www.kulturhuset.se/)

Me and zyz went to check it out. They had a robotic drumkit that was rather cool, a lot of pneumatic connections to drumsticks, and a laptop computer. every so often it would spring to life and play a few beats Smile

The exhibition that was launched was called 'A Guide To The Tourist Gaze.' They were handing out books and free juice. Hot chicks too, in case they are reading this Smile

The book is a rather fancy collection of photos, you can search up their own blurbs from the given info already. zyz will scan some pics. There was a receipt tucked into my book, with "Follow The White Spider" on it, and more barcodes.

Also there, among a few photographers and general public milling around, were two people from Spider Market Research, conducting some kind of survey. I was asked a few questions by a guy called Phil (I forget the surname). We got a business card and a lottery ticket (i didnt win), the card had www.spiderresearch.com. You can fill out your own survey in a popup on their website aswell. Despite Phils assurance i wouldnt get spammed, i received some rubbish from them already.

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Medemia
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 		Well, it looks like the barcode on the homepage is called PDF417. I have no clue on how to decode it though without the machinary.

http://www.neom.com/products/barcoding/pdf417/index.jsp
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 		So, only AFTER I get my code to translate a barcode image to usable binary data, do I discover somebody solved it. And, yikes! That new bar code is one of the 2D variety. Those things can hold a lot of data, but I'm not sure I want to try translating it by hand. Where's somebody with an advanced barcode scanner when you need them?

Medemia wrote:
I could swear I've seen this picture before... it looks like the Los Angeles skyline..

You're right! It does look like the LA skyline.

Edit: I found this app, which is some bare-bones source code for translating a *.pbm formatted image of the barcode to text, but I keep coming up with garbage for output.
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dach
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 		solving
Hope you dont think your work was in vain, I think your way was much cooler Smile I just got a bus Razz

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yanka|tage
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 		One of their "customers" is http://www.panopticorp.com/ Sorry if this has already been found

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BrianEnigma
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yanka|tage wrote:
One of their "customers" is http://www.panopticorp.com/ Sorry if this has already been found

There seems to be some overlap, too. Panopticorp mentions Eisenstahl Media and NexSec subvertising.

Also, the Spider Research email form has a drop-down with a bunch of different names--in case nobody had noticed. I'm not sure if/how that would be helpful, but you never know.

So: who has 2D barcode reading hardware???
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:11 pm
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Medemia
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 		Yeah, noticed that...

Found this article looking for Nexsec... it mentions panopticorp.com as well... and panopticorp.com has ensenstal media....

What is holdinghands.com? It isn't alive yet... at least that I know of.

http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/nogood12aug03.html

Edit: You're too fast Bri Smile

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BriEnigma wrote:
So, only AFTER I get my code to translate a barcode image to usable binary data, do I discover somebody solved it.


As a slightly off-topic aside, I just now published the source code for the barcode image recognition stuff I did this afternoon. There is no user interface, just a bunch of Java source code--so the audience is going to be limited to other programmers. At any rate, if you want to take a look (or if you want to grab it, add functionality, and submit patches!), feel free to do so: http://netninja.com/files/barcodeprocessor/

Followups to this should probably be done through private message, email, or IRC.
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dach
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 		robin?
Robin updated their journal here: http://nightingalejournal.blogspot.com/
its mostly an account of the goings on at K1. At the risk of a little self promotion, you can find my impartial and more complete description on my site http://www.skynet.ie/~dach as well as a log of an IRC conversation I had with Robin, and some of my research notes.

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