Topic awaiting preservation: VERY crazy image puzzle

http://www.etienne.nu/imagepuz/
can anyone mail me how to solve number 5?

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oh, my eyes .....

can't even get past #3 ...

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The number 5 is not that hard.
I sent you a mail.

To solve some stages, you'll need a paint program, or even a text/hex editor.
The stage 6 is über easy.



(Edited by poi on 02-19-2005 12:44)

ey thx poi!!! i counted on you letz see where i got stuck next
oh errm, poi which address did you use? please send to lgrumet ÄT gmail
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(Edited by mas on 02-19-2005 12:51)

You're welcome. Right now I'm puzzled by the stage 8.

oh errm, poi which address did you use? please send to lgrumet ÄT gmail

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I sent it via the Send an Email feature of the Asylum, but I just sent you another mail on your gmail account.
I've had a lucky guess with the stage 8, the next one is über easy.

thx man. just got it

#3 was cool
But I'm having problems with #4...oh well, gota go out, guess I'll have another go later

[edit] Forget that, one of poi's hints helped me

My Website (finally! And yes, it uses frames and is evil, but, well, take a look, it's not as evil as you might think )

(Edited by wrayal on 02-19-2005 13:34)

im stuck at 11. i think it could be solved using morphological opening and closing. am i on the right way or completely wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_image_processing

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(Edited by GRUMBLE on 02-19-2005 13:35)

#11 uses a trick similar to the #4

/!\ one "annoying" thing is that some URLs are case sensitives.

I'm done.



(Edited by poi on 02-19-2005 13:47)

Now let's give a go at the CODE PUZZLE

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/!\ one "annoying" thing is that some URLs are case sensitives.

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thanks. would've never gotten past 13 without that.

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the Code puzzle has only 5 stages.
Let's move on the MATH PUZZLE

ok, im on to the code puzzle now.

the image puzzle was fun! some very creative tricks! especially the last one.

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(bis) the Math puzzle only had 8 stages.

code puzzle was pretty straightforward IMO.

lets see if i can remember my math from school.

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math puzzle was quite easy too.
onto general knowledge puzzle.

"Feel free to use reference aids!"
if that means googling is allowed, than this should be a flawless walkthrough.

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(Edited by GRUMBLE on 02-19-2005 15:09)

The General Knowledge had 15 stages.

I've needed some Wikipedia and Google for it
Damn, the French name for the solution of the stage 12 is : "ornithorynque", I had no idea about the English name.

yeah i too would have been helpless without wikipedia and google.

these things you either know or not. in the other three puzzles you could always start up your brain to solve it.

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Damn, I really wanted to solve all of them (image ones), but fell at 15, and can't seem to do it with paint!!

Oh well...

Wrayal

My Website (finally! And yes, it uses frames and is evil, but, well, take a look, it's not as evil as you might think )

with MS paint ? Sure you'll have a hard time. You need something more advanced, letting you manipulate the channels or at the very least the colors.

meh, people have done it with paint, frankly I can't be bothered. Maths looks more like it to me, even if stage 5 is excruciatingly incorrect

[edit]wait...now I can't do stage puzzle 2?? Unfair!!

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(Edited by wrayal on 02-19-2005 17:52)

The description of the Math stage 5 is not clear enough. It's obvious that the answer is not 20,000m so they must be talking about the area of the square. ... well when you see the dumbness of the stage 8 you may wonder

hehe, I'm going to need a pen and paper for some of these I suspect. Oh, and my e-mail address is wrayal*NOSPAM*@gmail.com if you fancy helping me with #15, removing *NOSPAM* of course

Wrayal

My Website (finally! And yes, it uses frames and is evil, but, well, take a look, it's not as evil as you might think )

I'm stumped on #5 of the image puzzle

Edit: Nevermind, didn't work in Mozilla

(Edited by xcFeRiNiZeDcc on 02-19-2005 22:12)

xcFeRiNiZeDcc: I know in IE you can find the URL for the stage 6 with a single key stroke, but you can do it in about 10 seconds with PhotoShop.



(Edited by poi on 02-19-2005 22:26)

Hmm
I found stage 8 by mistake...
So the image that says scary ghost made lame how is it solved?
Please

cripkd at ker dot ro

PS: and yes, POI, paint works for 2 of them at least... Funny how you can solve them in 2 gfx tools so different. The one i solved with levels, the first one that appeared white, my friend solved with the bucket tool in paint.


Curiously yours, crip

(Edited by crip on 02-20-2005 00:38)

(Edited by crip on 02-20-2005 00:39)

I can't figure out stage 8... ("Scary... ghost... made lame!")


 

*hint* for Image Puzzle stage 8 : check the color of the letters

Duh. Thanks.


 

any hints for #3? I've split the colours into channels like someone already suggested, but I can't see any patterns or anything in the static :\

Thanks

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step 9 seems to be easy, but i cant get past this one. any tips?

abb: in #3 the URL is written in a stereogram. Alas I've never been able to see them, so go through it, I've pasted the image in Photoshop, duplicated the layer, inverted it, set its opacity to 50% and finally slided the layer to the right until the URL of the next stage popped.

mas: the #9 uses the same trick as the #4 .

play with the levels in photoshop.

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poi said:

#11 uses a trick similar to the #4

/!\ one "annoying" thing is that some URLs are case sensitives.

I'm done.



(Edited by poi on 02-19-2005 13:47)

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you mean similar to number 5 i think?

#11 uses a channel trick, so it's closer to #4 than #5. For the #11, convert it in RGB and check the channels separately. Or you could also do :

javascript:document.body.bgColor="Shazaam!";void(0);

I was doing really well till stage 5 of the image puzzle. Any hints mercifully received to ; tao (dot) boogie at gmail dot com.
Thanks for the mental challenge mas I am enjoying it albeit slowly. I'm sorry to say that I have not got a clue how to do the Code Puzzle you set us poi and I think I have the answer to the first question in the Math puzz' but know not how to submit it and move on to the next question
Heh, I guess this is proof positive of how well I did in the So Just How Big a Nerd are you? thread

::tao:::: ::cell::
"Those who look for monsters should look to it that they do not become monsters.
For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"

I did them all,done, i needed help also with the last problem on the math test.
Which is actually funny when you realise, i did countles calculations, looked for 9 grade phisics manuals LOL
Code test is too short i think cos it was funny.


Curiously yours, crip

(Edited by crip on 02-20-2005 18:57)

Tao: For the Math Puzzle, just pick the result of the problem, add ".htm" to and voilà you've got the URL of the next stage.
For the Code Puzzle, it's a matter of looking at the right place, shifting the characters, finding the association between the symbols and the characters. It's not that hard in fact. The most challenging for the non-nerd might be the last one which require an ASCII table.



(Edited by poi on 02-20-2005 17:36)

I'm stuck on #5 of the image puzzle. atomic AT nolongervalid dot org I don't have IE I don't have photoshop, but I do have The Gimp.


The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. --Groucho Marx

^^^i forwarded pois mail to you

Now on stage 12 of the picture puzz' thanks TP and poi

::tao:::: ::cell::
"Those who look for monsters should look to it that they do not become monsters.
For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"

I made it to level 12 before calling it quits on the image puzzle... Have to go back to it later and see if anything jumps out.


The code and math ones were both rather simple. The only thing that gave me a bit of trouble to begin with was the use of a comma in place of a decimal (bloody non-American notation ). Even the general knowledge was pretty easy, just had to look up 3-4 of them on Google.

Nice way to kill an hour or so in all though

heheheh... the only unfair thing about the image puzzle is that it's IE biased (2 stages use the IE highlight technique, the red x image displays text easier in IE.

(this may help your stage 5 struggles too, by the way.)

Wait, how was #3 made? I remember those old posters... Is that something that can be accomplished in PS?



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Ensellitis: Check the link posted by Slime

i still stuck @ 12. hints please

I don't get #5 of the image puzzle... Hint please to blukim at coolgoose dot co dot uk
Cheers...

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wow I got it. that's clever...

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(Edited by kimson on 02-21-2005 12:06)

mas + kimson: the solution of the stage 12 is written in plain text in the image re-read the warning I gave that helped GRUMBLE get past 13.



(Edited by poi on 02-21-2005 13:25)

I can't get over #12... help please, it's doing my head in..
Cheers

Could I have a hint on #4 of the image puzzle?

I'm still stuck on #6... =\



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stage #4: use the levels, or a flood fill in a paint program.
stage #6: check the file size of the image, don't you think there's something weird ?

... and how about #12? I'm sorry, I've been trying to do this one for ages now, I've read the whole thread again and again, I won't be able to sleep tonight!
Please?!

stage #12: the URL is written in fulltext in the image. Pay attention to the borders, and don't forget what I said about the case sensitivity.

This wasn't fair, I hated that stage...
I had got the principle, but got tricked because of the borders...
Thanks poi

the most tricky stages for me were the #8 and #12.

I've had a lucky guess for the #8 and later found the correct way to reveal the URL. At first I tried to find a PS distortion to reveal an URL distorted in the Chrome background, but it'd have been too tricky and there certainly was reason for the presence of the text in the foreground.

The case sensitivy in the #12 really tricked me.

is #13 also case sensitive?

yep. Use the letters in the case you see them.

done... Thanks for your help! I'm done with the code puzzle as well..

12 was mean... I was so close, but the case sensitivity tricked me as well.

arrrgg, and I was so close to having #12 yesterday (had half of it... does that count for anything? )...

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Pay attention to the borders

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was all it took to get the rest...

finally through the image puzzle. the code puzzle was quite easy...off to the math .........

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Well, I made it to 15, and I am stuck =\



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stage #15: uses a channels and levels trick.

Slime: You're my hero! Thank you SO MUCH for that magic eye link - that's the first time I've EVER been able to clearly see one of those images! My whole life I've been unable to see those damned things...

*removed post*

(Edited by AlterEgo on 02-22-2005 14:53)

poi said:

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stage #4: use the levels, or a flood fill in a paint program.

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Yeah, sorry, I didn't realise there was more than one page so I thought I was posting on the end of the first page but it was the second...you get the idea.

yeah I've done the same mistake...

I am wondering if I am doing stage 6 of the math puzzle wrong? Anyone who has done it could you email me codetown at gmail?

Thanks.

Dan @ Code Town

Just solved stage #5 of the image puzzle. Took me so long because of that IE bias. How do you make those kind of images?

Any hints for stage #8?
Stages 6 and 7 too easy, IMHO.
[edit]Done.[/edit]
[edit2]Done all.[/edit2]

(Edited by AlterEgo on 02-22-2005 22:34)

(Edited by AlterEgo on 02-22-2005 23:18)

Somewhat off topic...

Theory and an algorithm for creating ASCII Stereograms: http://freenshare.granax.com/stereogram/

^^^ this is damn cool, thx for that =)

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WOW Lord_Fukutoku that's brilliant! I was very frustrated, when I browsed through the magic eye website, to see they were keeping this secret!