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[Hazado]

You know the colors could have to do with the bit colors.

Red = 0
Blue = Neutral
Yellow = 1

Not sure what the other colors would mean then.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Baudot

[AgentX]

[enaxor]

I haven't been following this discussion that closely, so this may not have anything to do with it, but could the schematics be using the resistor color code? I've seen it used in puzzles before to hide a message.

*eta An example of how it was used, starting with this post explaining the solve.

**eta link to Color Code Chart

[Broklynite]

You know, I was wondering if maybe it might be an HTML code. Translate all the colors into their hex color code, then turn that into numbers and play with that- but I haven't the foggiest of what you could do with that. I think it might be a bit much for them to expect of us.

[KJA]

[enaxor]

[myestro]

Since we are trying to decipher these color bar code things...I went ahead and "brute forced" out a set of color bars out of the first lightcycle image...

basically filled in blocks of color if the area was obviously red, orange, green...etc...and then removed all duplicate data overlaps.

I aligned the data vertically (and there seems to be 5 rows of blocks plus a black baseline)

here is the rough blocks of colors derived by paint bucket fills:


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and here is the interpolated "cleaned up" chart of the color bars that I duplicated in Illustrator. (eliminating obvious duplicate data columns and aligning up slightly shifted columns)





what is very interesting is that what is left is 5 rows of 20 color pixels.

how to decipher the colors...I am not sure although the baudot seemed promising being 5bit code...tobad its binary (on/off)

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[Broklynite]

[myestro]

[Broklynite]

Ah I see. I was looking at it as vertical color displacements as well as horizontal. That way, there would only be vertical bars of color. But yoru way makes mroe sense I think.

[MOVIELORD101]

[myestro]

[Broklynite]

[Broklynite]

So I took your step five and played with it a little. You see what I have below. All I did was shift the colors so that all the identical groups became one group. Here's where it gets interesting.

I made a simple set of rules (yes, I know- it's like with nostradomus. If you create enough of yoru own silly rules, you can see anything). Let's start with E1. Working upward the colors are Orange, Green, Yellow, Black. So far, so good. But what about E4? Well, Orange and orange seem straightforward. Because they are identical, I consider them to be one orange. However, C is shifted such that it is one or the other. As such, I consider it a break. In other words, I'd read it as orange, orange, black.

Now I go to http://www.mantisamusements.com/resistors.htm and what do I see? These color combinations with numbers of ohms assigned to them.

Am I manipulating the data too much? Probably. But I do see combinations like orange, orange black. No, I have not gone through all the combinations by any means.

The more I look at it, the less likely this sounsd. But I'm still throwing it out there, hoping it'll inspire others to something.