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Hey, its been a long time.

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Hi ;)
I know i was never much on the official forums.
But i have returned.
Anything major happen?
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Yeah, blobbies went out of style.
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ya, i know. I just cant be bothered changing it.
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What about cryptic avatars?
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Jonathan wrote:What about cryptic avatars?
Which reminds me that I wanted to ask you what your avatar is supposed to be. It can't be an ASCII string printed out bit by bit because you would see a black (or white) line along every 8th pixel, and I couldn't be bothered to write a script to read it in to do other fancy stuff with it.
My second thought was that it could just be a game of life, but it doesn't show the usual patterns…

One thing I'm quite sure of is that it isn't random :)

EDIT: Hmm, maybe it's got something to do with your 2000th post? Congrats on that, by the way.
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wrtlprnft wrote:t can't be an ASCII string printed out bit by bit because you would see a black (or white) line along every 8th pixel, and I couldn't be bothered to write a script to read it in to do other fancy stuff with it.
My second thought was that it could just be a game of life, but it doesn't show the usual patterns…
It's none of them. It IS the obvious: a 2D bit field. But of what?
wrtlprnft wrote:One thing I'm quite sure of is that it isn't random :)
Yep.
wrtlprnft wrote:EDIT: Hmm, maybe it's got something to do with your 2000th post? Congrats on that, by the way.
No. And thanks, although 111*11 is more interesting. :)
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Jonathan wrote:
wrtlprnft wrote:t can't be an ASCII string printed out bit by bit because you would see a black (or white) line along every 8th pixel, and I couldn't be bothered to write a script to read it in to do other fancy stuff with it.
My second thought was that it could just be a game of life, but it doesn't show the usual patterns…
It's none of them. It IS the obvious: a 2D bit field. But of what?
A few theories thrown in the wild:
- Nights you got some vs nights you didn't *
- Run down of forum users id that are still active today
Sorry, I'm a bit out of idea at the moment. One thing is sure, it is not some map representation of the position of the players in the world, and I'm a bit disappointed of that.

I will need a few hints
-Are both axis the same unit/signification?
-Could we get a topic (and no, saying it is about the game wont help)?

/ph

* I'm talking of caramel fudge here of course. Hot, sticky, mouth dripping caramel fudge.
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One thing I found out is that only 0.116 of the pixels are white. Very helpful, eh?
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philippeqc wrote:- Run down of forum users id that are still active today
Nope. 16384 users?
philippeqc wrote:-Are both axis the same unit/signification?
Sort of.
philippeqc wrote:-Could we get a topic (and no, saying it is about the game wont help)?
It's not. :)

It's probably most productive to analyze the top left.

Edit: quote error, and noticed new post...
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wrtlprnft wrote:One thing I found out is that only 0.116 of the pixels are white. Very helpful, eh?
Actually it might lead to at least part of the solution.
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The only thing i noticed was the white pixel with other white pixel neighbours in the top left. (if you take that one away none of the white pixels are touching eachother anymore)
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WRONG! :P It can look interesting if you deliberately defocus (if you can) though.

Edit: Lack: you might have a clue there.
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Actually, if you take that one pixel away you get a chessboard- like pattern: all pixels where the difference of the x and y coordinate is a multiple of two are black, some of the others are white.
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Getting closer.
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