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drizjr · Unfictologist Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1700

[RING] Eli Hunt's Book "The Lost Games"

thebruce

nice find... there's now a page for info, with a bit of content. seems like it should be relevent

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:03 am

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drizjr · Unfictologist Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1700

Thanks, thebruce. Smile

I'm drafting an email to Eli now to ask him about it.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:17 am

Lysithea

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I've been wondering if Eli's book will really be sold at the end of the year. It could be a momento of The Lost Ring, and contain the codex pages and other ARGy goodness. Smile

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**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:47 am

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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

Okay I know that this is kind of a stretch, but I was looking at Eli's site and I noticed that the icons used for each of the podcasts shows a different image of a speech waveform:

The Lost Sport of Olympia:

The Ancient Game-Keepers:

The Omphalos Code:

The Labyrinth:

Stay tuned:

Is this just for show, or could there be something there?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:32 pm

VictorSueiro · Decorated Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 229

BMP to WAV "conversion"...

**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:26 am

Lysithea

I think it is likely that each icon represents a small part of each respective podcast. There could well be a hidden message if you locate each sound bite and then string the parts together.

**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:23 am

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**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:45 pm

backspace124 · Boot Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 15

sweet. im gonna try to do it an see if it says something.

**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:09 pm

chaobell · Boot Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 57 Location: Houston, TX

I tinkered with the sound bits and slowed them way down and such, but couldn't get anything interesting out of them but crackles and rumbles.

Then again, my sound-tinkering setup is limited to Windows Sound Recorder here at work, so your mileage may vary.

**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:44 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:46 pm

chaobell · Boot Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 57 Location: Houston, TX

**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:44 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

I'm no expert in the ways of either audio or image data storage; But, I would assume that, without resorting to steganography, you could have either an intelligible image or an intelligible audio snippet, but not both. At least not in a .GIF source with no layers. The old BMP2WAV (or GIF2WAV) tools just produced audio based on the pixels in an image. In otherwords, noise. Sometimes kinda cool noise, but still just noise. Doing the same thing in reverse produced a picture which was best described as "static".

If you could recreate the waveforms in say, Audacity (And if they all have the same amplitude and meter), you might get something.

Finding a place in one or more of the podcast files where the spectral image matches, seems like a lot better alternative, though.

**Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:16 pm

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drizjr · Unfictologist Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1700

You know what else looks similar to those waveform images accompanying each podcast? Seismograms.... from earthquakes.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:40 pm