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Posted by: DesertStormer27


Posted by: DesertStormer27
Also, if anyone is interested in some C++ Programs for generating this stuff...

C++= 246 Lines
Python= 9 Lines

Problem?

That's three different files and it includes some other stuff I've tried :P and python is well python. I'm not going to get into a language argument but C++ allows you more flexibility with trying weird stuff :P



Oh really?

sdb=''.join(map(lambda x: bin(ord(x))[2:].rjust(8, '0'), sd))
res+=chr(int(sdb[i*7:(i+1)*7], 2))

Do that in C++, then we can talk...




I'm pretty sure DirectX and OpenGL don't use Python sire...

Python: 2
C++: 1,000,000


REGARDLESS

Enough coder bickering. I've been holed up in my room all week fine tuning ENB for Skyrim and all of this basic algorithmic code is throwing me the hell off since I've been dealing with floats all week.

Give me a bit to reorganize myself and maybe I can work something up.

  • 09.07.2012 8:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: DesertStormer27


Posted by: DesertStormer27
Also, if anyone is interested in some C++ Programs for generating this stuff...

C++= 246 Lines
Python= 9 Lines

Problem?

That's three different files and it includes some other stuff I've tried :P and python is well python. I'm not going to get into a language argument but C++ allows you more flexibility with trying weird stuff :P



Oh really?

sdb=''.join(map(lambda x: bin(ord(x))[2:].rjust(8, '0'), sd))
res+=chr(int(sdb[i*7:(i+1)*7], 2))

Do that in C++, then we can talk...



Sure, tell me what that actually does because I never really have worked with python much other than to know that it's a scripting language and I can't use pointers and stopped a little after that. Try doing:

float InvSqrt (float x){
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);
x = *(float*)&i;
x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
return x;
}

^ that's from Quake 3 btw :P

  • 09.07.2012 8:30 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

I agree, we still haven't figured this out and I bet both Deej and MissingLink are sitting, laughing their ass off at how a thread where everyone was working towards a common goal has been reduced down to a programming freaking flame war. All this bickering is getting us no closer to some Bungie Swag. So, what has everyone been working on lately?

  • 09.07.2012 8:35 PM PDT

5 lines (of code), to get the message.
https://gist.github.com/3671583

If anyone wanted to know how to solve the first part (the image), you need to get the (r,g,b) values for the "odd" pixels in the lower right hand corner of the image. There are two rows of 86 pixels making 2 by 2 squares. This leaves you with 172 pixels, but only every fourth pixel matters (the unique ones). Iterate through them, convert the r, g, and b values from integers to characters, append it together and you get your first message.

You can see an implementation in the link above.

  • 09.07.2012 8:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: Locker537
5 lines (of code), to get the message.
https://gist.github.com/3671583

If anyone wanted to know how to solve the first part (the image), you need to get the (r,g,b) values for the "odd" pixels in the lower right hand corner of the image. There are two rows of 86 pixels making 2 by 2 squares. This leaves you with 172 pixels, but only every fourth pixel matters (the unique ones). Iterate through them, convert the r, g, and b values from integers to characters, append it together and you get your first message.

You can see an implementation in the link above.


We can all write snippet apps to decode ascii like this but that's not our goal right now, what and where are the 0's we're supposed to be looking for? And don't forget to refer to the picture. We may have already figured out the most intensive part of the challenge, decoding the message on our own.


I say those few of us that actually know what's going on meet up at some external chat like Skype or something so we can convene our efforts in a more confined space so we can actually work.

[Edited on 09.07.2012 8:40 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 8:39 PM PDT

I agree, we still haven't figured this out and I bet both Deej and MissingLink are sitting, laughing their ass off at how a thread where everyone was working towards a common goal has been reduced down to a programming freaking flame war. All this bickering is getting us no closer to some Bungie Swag. So, what has everyone been working on lately?

All I've done is count 4189 zeroes, and 2867 ones in the original binary string. Neither are divisible by 7 though, which leads me to believe those numbers are worthless.

Also I'm sleepy.

  • 09.07.2012 8:40 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

alright, I have a skype going with one of my friends, I will PM whomever is interested with our names, contact request us and join our chat. We can do this guys!

  • 09.07.2012 8:41 PM PDT

I certainly don't think everyone can write the code. DesertStormer beat me to the punch by literally a few minutes.

I also posted about doing some 1 --> 7 replacements in the hex to looking at the results, but not much appeared there.

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Posted by: DesertStormer27
I agree, we still haven't figured this out and I bet both Deej and MissingLink are sitting, laughing their ass off at how a thread where everyone was working towards a common goal has been reduced down to a programming freaking flame war. All this bickering is getting us no closer to some Bungie Swag. So, what has everyone been working on lately?


If you think about it, there can't be any more to deal with ascii character numbers, binary or hex after the message (at least involving the message itself) because it makes sense and you can't go further. So it's a riddle now, it's truly "art". Unlike the Marathon hidden level for instance where you uncompressed the file twice.

"zeros" and "ones" are code words for something. You will need to have a filter of some sort though because of the "pragmatically repeately" part of the message and the "put your thinking caps on" & "[find the numbers]" and so it has something to deal with 7s, 0s, 1s and the message words/characters themself. :P that's all I got. I've tried lots of different things but can't think of anything useful that makes sense

Edit: especially with all the weird word choices: "grapple" "mayhap" "pen their programs" and the original text being without spaces because they could have added spaces they just choose to not to. That's a very significant part.

[Edited on 09.07.2012 8:44 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 8:41 PM PDT

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.


Posted by: DesertStormer27
alright, I have a skype going with one of my friends, I will PM whomever is interested with our names, contact request us and join our chat. We can do this guys!


Dude, add me asap, I just had a literal brainblast.

Is it just me or is that an odd place for a color hex to be?

misconfigured hex might I add.

[Edited on 09.07.2012 8:52 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 8:44 PM PDT

Key

I asked DeeJ for the need to collaborate, I got it.

Thank you, Sir.

  • 09.07.2012 8:51 PM PDT

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This forum is truly amazing, trying to solve Bungie's complex problem...

Don't you agree, TheMissingLink?

  • 09.07.2012 8:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: DesertStormer27
alright, I have a skype going with one of my friends, I will PM whomever is interested with our names, contact request us and join our chat. We can do this guys!


Dude, add me asap, I just had a literal brainblast.

Is it just me or is that an odd place for a color hex to be?

misconfigured hex might I add.


It is but for challenges similar to these it's the most common place. It's location isn't significant.

  • 09.07.2012 8:53 PM PDT

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.


Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Your MOM is MC

Posted by: DesertStormer27
alright, I have a skype going with one of my friends, I will PM whomever is interested with our names, contact request us and join our chat. We can do this guys!


Dude, add me asap, I just had a literal brainblast.

Is it just me or is that an odd place for a color hex to be?

misconfigured hex might I add.


It is but for challenges similar to these it's the most common place. It's location isn't significant.


I was saying it's existence period.

  • 09.07.2012 8:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Your MOM is MC

Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Your MOM is MC

Posted by: DesertStormer27
alright, I have a skype going with one of my friends, I will PM whomever is interested with our names, contact request us and join our chat. We can do this guys!


Dude, add me asap, I just had a literal brainblast.

Is it just me or is that an odd place for a color hex to be?

misconfigured hex might I add.


It is but for challenges similar to these it's the most common place. It's location isn't significant.


I was saying it's existence period.


Either way it's existence isn't odd for a challenge like this. I mean, yes it was added after the photo was taken using photoshop but meh.

  • 09.07.2012 8:59 PM PDT

That was the first piece of the puzzle that required some amount of analysis. I posted a solution to that part.

It reveals the clue: "First convert the hexadecimal to binary. Then, regroup the bits into chunks equal to our favorite number. Finally, read as ASCII."

Using that clue, you can get the paragraph from the original encoded blob of text in the mail sack post.

Everyone is stuck at the paragraph now.

  • 09.07.2012 9:06 PM PDT

Sharks with friggen lasers!

Oh gosh. This is so exiting. It's like Christmas, except it isn't, and the gift is the gift of "courage" or something, not an actual gift.

Either way i'm excited to see what the puzzle code thing is.

  • 09.07.2012 9:15 PM PDT

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Cool sack. Loved PAX.

  • 09.07.2012 9:26 PM PDT

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.

Sorry we have a team of experts discussing motion capture at the moment.

  • 09.07.2012 9:28 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

Yep. The entire bungie community is counting on us to finish it and find the answer, and were sitting in skype discussing 3d animation. Just another day in the Community.

  • 09.07.2012 9:29 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten


Posted by: DesertStormer27
Yep. The entire bungie community is counting on us to finish it and find the answer, and were sitting in skype discussing 3d animation. Just another day in the Community.


WHat if by cracking this we unlock Bungie.next

  • 09.07.2012 9:33 PM PDT

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Posted by: BC1096
Your Mom

I win!


excuse me

  • 09.07.2012 9:35 PM PDT

Owning Noobs Since 05

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Jim Harkins

David is a horrible person for making this puzzle.....he should feel bad.

  • 09.07.2012 9:38 PM PDT

Key

Remove all the e's in the paragraph. Also turn the Ts into Ss, the As into Ps, and the spaces into 3s.

Then type it backwards. See what that gets you. I'm still working on the revised version.

  • 09.07.2012 9:39 PM PDT

5066579 is the message in dec.
Convert to binary
(Was big and felt like spam. Anyways, found some numbers.)

[Edited on 09.07.2012 9:49 PM PDT]

  • 09.07.2012 9:45 PM PDT