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**Posted:** Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:06 pm

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SuperJerms

Which pic are you talking about with pics4?

Can't subtract colors from the picture (they are four out of thousands, so it doesn't do any good). What you're seeing is just natural to watercolor painting.

I do like Dr. Jinx's suggestion that sourcecode.txt 's colors are involved. I went ahead and made a gif with the style sheet colors for easy reference. Of course, I don't think it's a color puzzle, I think we should look for a pattern in the code.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:09 am

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johnny5

Well well, this is interesting now isn't it?

I went ahead and ran with my spec and plugged in monopoly money values for the colors on the grid and got this.

Notice that the values summed horizontally are 174, 173, 172, 171 reading from top to bottom
The values summed vertically are: 130 45 55 76 111 8 76 70 26 22 70 1

Summing the numbers in the summed row or column gives 690, which is j6 in base36. Confused

Can anyone spot an obvious pattern there? I think I'm too tired.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:39 am

nhansard · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159

**Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:24 am

johnny5

Right.
I did try it using other values also, (e.g B(lue)=2, Y(ellow)=25 ,etc.) but is it pink or red?

Another thought I had, but didn't pursue, is to use the physical distance between the color pairs as a value.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:15 am

SuperJerms

Well doesn't it seem like the whites have to be a big part of the key here, since they are the only color that changes in each verticle row (-1), but have a more obtuse pattern than the black? If it's just distance between colors, then why not just have all white or all black?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:21 pm

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Other related stuff to last post:
On an lcd (laptop) it is very clear that there is a lot of "pencil" in the background - all types of stuff.

The dims of the two images are different in aspect.. why? (are pixel dims important)?

there seems to be two? different grays/blacks used where one or more might drop out. The image painting has all kinds of stuff in there not just schematics. The image seems to be vertically oriented but might have added perspective.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:08 pm

johnny5

Here's another fine piece of Ex-cellery, with the decodes filled in.

**Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:16 am

xnbomb

Color coded

**Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:55 am

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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

Re: Color coded

**Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:42 am

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