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Tresbien
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1436
New Video Announcement 9/16 and Test 5 Are Up Hans is not happy with the Black Swan and recruits using cheats.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:44 pm
Last edited by Tresbien on Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:11 am; edited 1 time in total
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
Straight up, Tresbien. Tha's the first thing that I noticed. Some of those patterns in Test 5 are difficult. I might have to use the cheat for this one.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:51 pm
Tresbien
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1436
haha I totally forgot to try it while logged out first. I didn't think the test was difficult, but I plodded along forgetting entirely about the clock and didn't get to the last one at all. Got grouped in Chronos.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:04 pm
felonious priest
Boot
Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 55
been messing with video 5 pausing it and moving the the video cursor back and forth, and a couple of times the video stopped and kinda melted down. there is def something there.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:14 pm
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Cheat for Task 5:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
- .... . -.-. .... . .- - .. ... .. -. - .... . ... . --.- ..- . -. -.-. . -... ..- -
T H E C H E A T I S I N T H E S E Q U E N C E B U T
- .... . ... . --.- ..- . -. -.-. . .. ... - .... . .- -. ... .-- . .-.
T H E S E Q U E N C E I S T H E A N S W E R
This was fun. Opened the video in Flash CS, exported the frames from the relevent range of the video, clipped to the lower right 20x20 pixels. Sorted the image file list by size (since there would be only two unique 'images') to select and batch rename all the 'dot' images for easy reading. Then ordered the file list in the frame order, transcribed the 'dot' and 'dash' regions of frames (dashes were about 4 or 5 frames), ran the result through a morse translator (quicker than doing it all manually), and finally made a few letter/word spacing adjustments, and there's the result!
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:23 pm
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
Beat me to it. i did it manually.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:33 pm
felonious priest
Boot
Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 55
you must have just lol when you read my last post.. hey i tried lol
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:37 pm
Tresbien
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1436
thebruce, I just have to say applause and well done on that solve.
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:41 pm
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
[UPDATE] Test 5 - Numeric Projection Evaluation There are some wicked numeric patterens here. I wonder if there is a sequence to the answers?
** Edited topic title for tags -- jamesi
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:57 pm
Last edited by magnet0 on Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:00 am; edited 1 time in total
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
ah, and I just remembered the pattern for the one tricky question. a friend of mine shared it as a brain teaser a while back. Took a while to figure out, but it's a good one
and yeah, the clue is relevent
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:05 am
GalvanicSpiral
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Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 307 Location: Asgard, Chatting Up Freyja
Man thebruce, you're good! I knew it was Morse code, but how to get it solved was the kicker for me. Glad we have one person willing to shell out some bucks for the proper tools...
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:14 am
GalvanicSpiral
Unfettered
Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 307 Location: Asgard, Chatting Up Freyja
Finished the tests. Got 60% correct. Placed in group Chaos.
_________________"Remember, if no one ever explored the unknown we would still be living in caves, wondering how to arrange our rock furniture to best feng our shui." -Yours Truly
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Lurking: In the Shadows...
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:45 am
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
Question 7 seems to be the patterned one. Works off of linguistics.
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:51 am
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
Group Nyx, 100%, 3:39 remaining.
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:05 am
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
Groups so far: (gathered from DarkUfo)
Aether
Chaos
Chronos
Hemera
Nyx
Oranos
[Edit] Added Chaos and poll
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:17 am
Last edited by magnet0 on Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:59 am; edited 1 time in total
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