Post A0P5NAdvvwDan2GWlU by omnipotens@linuxrocks.online
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(DIR) Post #A0OsSDGWJPysy0O8NE by omnipotens@linuxrocks.online
2020-10-21T20:42:46Z
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Anyone have any idea on what this is and how to decode it? I got handed this puzzle and I am stumped.
(DIR) Post #A0OvS7YRqQrx7LQCWm by HappyWizard@pl.wizards.zone
2020-10-21T22:59:34.902429Z
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@omnipotens if I had to guess, each 1x21px section might represent a character, there's a repeating pattern of 10 colors that are similar at the beginning of 20 of the lines. Did they send you a PNG/BMP or the compressed JPG?I might try and see how many colors are being used for a hint (if it's actually a cipher 1 color -> 1 char), but the compression makes things a little more difficult because you cant just sample a pixel from each section, you'd have to do some sort of averaging/clustering :(
(DIR) Post #A0OvXhM0AgV5awG9AG by benis@cawfee.club
2020-10-21T23:00:36.614490Z
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@omnipotens it says you're gay
(DIR) Post #A0Ovclpyvf3SwqhWUK by HappyWizard@pl.wizards.zone
2020-10-21T23:01:31.186393Z
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@omnipotens actually leaving the top and bottom parts off might work okay, the middles seem pretty clean
(DIR) Post #A0OwdZDfQa9a3eiuOG by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2020-10-21T23:12:50Z
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@omnipotens take each bar's color in RGB. Those are 3 bytes. Do this for every bar, and you have a lot of bytes. See if they make sense.
(DIR) Post #A0P1RUV1eOBRiNu5Me by omnipotens@linuxrocks.online
2020-10-22T00:06:28Z
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@HappyWizard Well the data should have coordinates. It's from a very old geocache that still has not been found. A friend now has me addicted to figuring this out lol
(DIR) Post #A0P2H7OIoPmf6UNPnM by HappyWizard@pl.wizards.zone
2020-10-22T00:16:03.309037Z
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@omnipotens I’ve been messing with it, still a lot of “off white” pixels from compression that might need to be filtered out?from PIL import Imagefrom collections import defaultdictim = Image.open(r'puzzle.png')width, height = im.sizepx = im.load()def default_val(): return 0colors = defaultdict(default_val)for j in range(0, width): for i in range(5, height, 25): colors[px[j, i]] += 1for color in colors: if colors[color] > 10: print(color, colors[color])if you want to mess with what I’ve done so far, also edited the picture so it’s easier to parse with those for…loops
(DIR) Post #A0P2HrwFkWH1T6cB6G by omnipotens@linuxrocks.online
2020-10-22T00:15:47Z
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@HappyWizard little lost on what your saying here?
(DIR) Post #A0P2TvVsHjcc1u1fpg by HappyWizard@pl.wizards.zone
2020-10-22T00:18:20.410799Z
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@omnipotens what I'm saying is if you try and count the number of colors you're going to get slightly off colors due jpeg artifacts, like this:(255, 250, 255) 20(255, 253, 255) 42(255, 254, 255) 61(251, 255, 255) 58(254, 255, 253) 16(254, 254, 252) 13(255, 255, 251) 21(244, 255, 255) 14(255, 255, 246) 17are all _basically_ white pixels, but it's hard to say if it's part of the code or just part of the jpeg compression
(DIR) Post #A0P2jaRAPdo7IUI7ns by HappyWizard@pl.wizards.zone
2020-10-22T00:21:11.983604Z
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@omnipotens I'm done messing with it for now, maybe I'll keep working at it another time, good luck though!
(DIR) Post #A0P3ixTXN5ZGPhfFGS by omnipotens@linuxrocks.online
2020-10-22T00:32:01Z
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@HappyWizard Well thanks for your help. I will keep looking at it from what you sent me.
(DIR) Post #A0P5NAdvvwDan2GWlU by omnipotens@linuxrocks.online
2020-10-22T00:50:22Z
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@HappyWizard Think this might be something. The original image there are two " ` " The text that came with also has two " ' "the cache says. I am thinking the text maybe in the image as well.The Approx Elevation is 8990' The name is everything if you know what we mean! This should be an easier cache to find and please beware of where you place your hands. Please bring your own logging device as the cache doesn't contain one. The cache has no room for trackables.
(DIR) Post #A0P9E53FklVEes1teS by whatcraic@linuxrocks.online
2020-10-22T01:33:40Z
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@omnipotens would start by seeing how many unique colors and widths there are. Like if each rectangle could represent a character.
(DIR) Post #A0POLTpHXScUppTtJY by HappyWizard@pl.wizards.zone
2020-10-22T04:23:21.206464Z
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@omnipotens HMM, might be something? You can get the same sorta effect by just scaling vertically in GIMP
(DIR) Post #A0QCX3uchtONeDhCN6 by gothnbass@linuxrocks.online
2020-10-22T13:45:07Z
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@omnipotens First impression: looks like a chromosome.
(DIR) Post #A16JiBwS53CVPHVaBE by httpeter@linuxrocks.online
2020-11-11T21:23:14Z
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@omnipotens used google image search & found it on some geocaching site. There's an annual "Wingin' it" caching competition, and by the year of the post 2018, there was the 10th occasion https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7FY0B_winginit-10-lbh-1Following the desc, there are 14 caches - and 14 lines in the central block. Hence I assume these are coordinates for caches.Also given the first sequence is always the same - it could represent "N " for North, etc.Find one coordinate and it might give you a hint for translation