AlgorithmBlack - 10/31/07

[Anonymous]

FWIW I tried a stego tool on the image files, but no hits

[Manic Velocity]

http://algorithmblack.com/stat.gif

This is more than just animated static.  Think of it as one of those 3D "Magic Eye" pictures that were so popular in the early 90's.  As you look at the image, relax your eyes.  A crude animated 3D rendering will pop out.

It has a round "head" on top of a cube body, with a few limbs (tentacles?) trailing out the bottom.  As the animation plays, the figure rotates and moves diagonally in a down-left motion.  Then one of the "tentacles" seems to bend upwards over the "head".  It looks like a rudimentary 3D image of a sentinel.

This can't just be a coincidence.  I'm not sure if we should keep it secret, or if we should make it public and claim the knowledge points.

[Ash]

he's right it is indeed a sentinel.  And I think it would be best to just tell people about it and "claim the knowledge points" as it were.

[Anonymous]

We should keep it to ourselves in case it becomes relevant later, my 2 cents

[Manic Velocity]

We should keep it to ourselves in case it becomes relevant later, my 2 cents

I was thinking that considering the event will be revealed in just a few weeks anyway, it might be a good idea to make it public and stake the claim on it.  People are picking the animations apart frame-by-frame, and scanning for steganography code, but I doubt anyone has found that little 3D sentinel thing.

There's been a trend in events lately where the first person to discover something or perform a certain task gets a reward.

[Ash]

Agreed.  That Tyndall event should have shown all of us that keeping things tight lipped doesn't work for very long.  Someone is going to find the hidden image and you can bet they'll be on the boards the next second later telling people about it.  I just think it should be us that doing the shouting this time around.

[Anonymous]

Well  hey, it's not like I expected you to pay attention to my opinion, that's why it's two cents :p

[Lits]

Nice catch, Manic.

[NoCry]

post it i say!

[Jeyk]

Good catch, Manic - it still looks as if there is something underneath the Sentinel.  The front of a Hovercraft, maybe?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Sorry for the double post, and forgive me if this is already posted over at DN1 (I don't read it).  However I visited AB today and got to the hidden page (http://www.algorithmblack.com/hidden.html).  Follow the VV:HH coords and got the following: tinyurldotforwardslash2 6e7d

I don't know what to make of the URL.  It's obviously tinyurl.com/ something - but what.  Was the space deliberate?  Should it be "f"?  Is the "d" a "p"?  Is "6" "9"?  Only two links came of it, one to a post on the Vietnam war from Google Groups and the other a midi file of the theme from The Odd Couple on an Israeli site.  I'm guessing both are wrong.

Would anyone even remotely more intelligent than me please take a punt at it?  http://www.algorithmblack.com/puzzle.png

[Anonymous]

Is anybody else signing up in their forums?  I looked but couldn't find any of you...

[Anonymous]

Looks like a new "Event" is coming

http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/posts/list.m?topic_id=36300018195

[Broin]

Is anybody else signing up in their forums?  I looked but couldn't find any of you...

I have but they ask you to download something to get more intel or something like that and I don't download programs I don' t know anything about....

If you have access to the forums go ahead and post the contents of the PDF files or videos or anything else they may have.