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[spaceboy]

[PUZZLE]Lightcycle Schematics

[NickButler]

There has got to be something in the domains and codes within the schematics.

Codes:
X7G9055V4G01
06Y922X01M33

Domain URL (add .net):
n8xd93f2rk077px1n6wdq839m0
qm6k3pshu8rr302kv6xej8p72s

[Broklynite]

So using the attached image and a barcode reader, I got the following results:

Type 'EAN8' and value '66175209'

Type 'EAN8' and value '88871172'

Type 'EAN8' and value '66560340'

I'll be zooming a bit and playing around, see what else I get. I've already tried all three in derez and got nothing. I have not attempted to use it on the slip-card page (i.e. 66, 17, 52, 09)

[Broklynite]

Splitting it up, I was able to find these. The rest my software was unable to find anything.

[KNiGHTTiME]

just so people know where to get the full picture themselves:

http://qm6k3pshu8rr302kv6xej8p72s.net/qm6k3pshu8rr302kv6xej8p72s.png

http://n8xd93f2rk077px1n6wdq839m0.net/n8xd93f2rk077px1n6wdq839m0.png

[jasonw]

Okay, we've made some progress on one of the images over a couple of hours here.

("We," in this case, being Jason, Sylvia, and Electric Keet.)

We got to the previously "de-noised" version of the lightcycles by swapping columns of color in the image region over into the region of color-bars, then shifting the image data left into the region with the rest of the image. Presto, lightcycles, as advertised.

So, we repeated the process, noticing that there seemed to be interleavable regions of color in different columns. We selected chunks of colors and brought them together, one column at a time. We did entire columns (to avoid having this just be wishful manipulation), modified by the "comb" pattern that we used to resolve the original image (because it seemed to be key to everything.)

We managed to get the colors mostly-coherent. The exact ordering of the color columns may not be deterministic (and may be wrong); we had to make choices when we moved columns around, and we often had nothing to go on about which side should be moved to meet the other.

The light and dark blue lines, and the background colors on the right, have a few interesting properties now:

The light and dark blue lines and the background colors repeat themselves vertically. There's a region that's yellow all the way across: that region marks the end of the pattern, and below it, the lines begin over from the top of the image. (Note: We did NOTHING to the image to move things vertically. This is a real pattern, we didn't make it.)

Also, if you treat the light and dark blue lines as interchangable, there are a pair of places where the pattern has symmetry for a large area around a point. More interestingly, they're IDENTICAL, save for colors (the backgrounds are different in both, and some dark lines are light in mirror-image, and from one cycle to the other.)

(By the way, we believe the double-wide blue lines are actually two lines next to each other, since we've found a place where there's a dark and light line together, mirrored with a double-wide dark line.)

We also noticed that there are seven colors used in the colored region, which correspond amusingly well to ROYGBIV. (We're calling the light and dark blue lines "blue" and "indigo" to make that correspondence.)

Nothing's immediately decoding here, so we thought we'd push this up to the collective brain before we go to bed or insane (not sure which would come first, to be honest.)

- Jason

(Edited to shrink image descriptions. Original image descriptions follow:)

colors resolved:
We swapped columns of colors (sometimes only swapping regions in the "comb" pattern of some lines but not others), in order to bring regions of like color together - this created new columns of color, and eventually resolved the colors to this.

symmetries highlighted:
We found some symmetric regions in the light-and-dark blue bands, where lines were identical out from a central point. There were two symmetric regions, and the pattern in both was identical. We've drawn white recticles around both regions in this picture

detail of symmetries:
This is a highlight of the symmetries we found, with a pixel-ruler drawn in on the left that we used to check some details.

[Cado]

 

[madopal]

It's in the main thread, but I thought I'd post my analysis on the codes here again.

[hughesst]

Hazado posted this earlier. I noticed that the two black bars are palindromic. each of them repeats themselves in reverse sequence when folded in half. I doubt it's significant but certainly worth taking note of.

PS - it's the two images laid over one another without the lightcycle drawings

[Hazado]

Repost from Main Thread - Moving to appropriate thread.

Here are both of the cycle schematics with all of the cycle removed from it. Just the colors, if someone wants to see if they can get anything out of it.

[Hazado]

[Traffic Jammer]

What software did you use to "slide" the channels together?
Man those codes in the drawings are making me nuts., they aren't there for nothing.
Or are they, ARGH!!!

[jasonw]

My work, at least, was done in Photoshop. I'm betting that most of the other folks working on solving the images are using similar - Photoshop, or Gimp, or some other fairly high-end image-maniplation program. I can't speak for anyone else, though.

If I get a few spare hours, by the way, I want to see if I can resolve the columns in both images at once, the way we resolved them in the one. The "palindrome" people have been noticing might mean that the images line up and we can resolve all of the fringes to get a set of solid blocks of color. I need to get a spare evening first, though. If someone else wants to give it a shot before I get to it, I'd love to see the result!

[Traffic Jammer]

so you moved these slices one at a time?

[thebruce]

Well I know in Corel you have the ability to mask by row or column or any width as well. So you could in theory just click on the offset rows, create one big mask, and move everything as necessary. It doesn't have to be tedious