Hey, its been a long time.

Loor · Post by **Loor** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:11 am

Hi

I know i was never much on the official forums.
But i have returned.
Anything major happen?

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:37 am

Yeah, blobbies went out of style.

Loor · Post by **Loor** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:36 pm

ya, i know. I just cant be bothered changing it.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:58 pm

What about cryptic avatars?

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:14 pm

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.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:55 pm

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.

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:58 pm

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.

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:29 pm

One thing I found out is that only 0.116 of the pixels are white. Very helpful, eh?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:29 pm

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...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:31 pm

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.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:33 pm

Don't look at the picture, look through the picture.
It's a rabbit riding a donkey.

Lackadaisical · Post by **Lackadaisical** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:58 pm

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)

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:59 pm

WRONG!

It can look interesting if you deliberately defocus (if you can) though.

Edit: Lack: you might have a clue there.

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:17 pm

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.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:25 pm

Getting closer.