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[BlessedBlogger]

Playing around with the fax image I placed it over the map of cities in the handbook and I also played a bit with the 'thumb print' in Photoshop. Here's what I got. Not that this necessarily means anything, just giving folks ideas and showing what's already been done so we don't waste time. I think my husband has a barcode scanner. I'll trying scanning the print when he gets home and see if that leads anywhere.

[horkheimer]

Maybe the number that was found with the solution of the last grid (1230768000) has something to do with this.. Since the fax was only sent after it was found...

[onedreamofsleep]

Our team in Bayview, Milwaukee is printing off the pages and making a transparency of the fax to overlay....I'm thinking perhaps the hand motions are how to align the fax over each page....note how the Mayor's League is highlighted in either version of the fax overlay...also, I find it interesting that in the first overlay, the circle is present until the "ball drops" after Almost Right...any thoughts on that?

[teufelsdrochk]

[FeloniousDrunk]

Posted this in the M:ARH thread. It didn't rouse too much excitement but that X placement seems to be pretty well sited to fit on the p.26 grid.

[arcolz]

I think those lines of screwy pixel are most likely fax artifacts. If you look closely at the text at the top of the page, they have the same weird lines of pixels.

[teufelsdrochk]

[thebruce]

fax: information printed by the receiving machine in fax will likely be clear without artifacting - it's already black and white. information printed that was scanned from the sending machine and converted to black and white will almost certainly contain artifacting or dithering, thus IF there are codes hidden on a pixel-detail level, it'll be so noisy you can't trust the accuracy of any analysis.
All I see when I look at the the black and white PNG are 5 symbols and a header. That's as much info that cleaned from that fax, imo, as far as I'm concerned. But you're welcome to keep analyzing it, because you never know. =P

[arcolz]

Not pooing on anyone's ideas. My scan might be different, but attached a blown-up version of the scan I downloaded. See how certain vertical lines have weird sections of pixels, same as the "thumbprint" area around the X. I could always be wrong, but I think the PM's can't change the text at the top of the fax, and therefore data couldn't be stored in the weird pixels.

[canebrake]

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[teufelsdrochk]

Hmm, well I merged the map from bruce's screenshots:



Now that it's done I don't see how it could be useful, but still a nice thing to share.

The M:ARH booklet seems to suggest starting out with TWO dark dollars, then manipulating these symbols.

The black star is the only fax symbol that doesn't appear, suggesting that it (and not the X) is the destination.

[Peekaboo]

Jagoda and the Fax

[Renton]

I'd really like it if someone took a photo of their fax with a camera, so we can maybe see what the area around the X would look like to someone receiving it over their fax machine rather than seeing a scan.

[BlessedBlogger]

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