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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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Remember Decoder Bars? I used to love those things.
(Drag the left image onto the right one)
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E. Most Peninsula
Title: The Third Wheel
Joined: Mar 19 2010
Location: The Arid Void (Texas).
Posts: 91
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Clever. But hell yes, I miss those things.
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 "And on the other hand, you have different fingers."
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Posts: 5316
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Left image looks decoded already...
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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| Doddsino wrote: |
| Left image looks decoded already... |
I didn't really think it out well when I made it. Normally you would need two balanced images crossing the same space threshold. I just grabbed my avatar and some text. But I already gave my excuse, so it is what it is.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
Posts: 3707
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i think every kid loved decoder bars back then. so did i.
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it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times |
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
Location: Accounting Dept.
Posts: 1690
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...Be sure to drink your Ovaltine?
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Valdronius
Moderator
Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
Posts: 4465
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How do you make such a thing?
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| A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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Making one of these things isn't that hard, but you really do need to know how to use image editing software.
- Using a layer based image editing software (Photoshop/GIMP) create a new file
- Define a size for the decodable image. I chose 100px X 100px
- Create a layer that has alternating columns of black and clear across the entire layer
- Save the image as a PNG24 (No compression loss during save and with alpha transparancy is necessary)
- Create a new layer with the first image you want to use
- Make the layer grayscale
- Create a new layer with the second image you want to use
- Make the layer grayscale
- Hide all layers except for the black columns layer. Make a selection out of it
- Show the first image layer and make sure it is the active layer.
- Clear the contents of the selection
- Hide the first image and show the second image. Make sure it is the active layer.
- Invert the selection
- Clear the contents of the selection
- Save the file as a PNG24
I chose to upload the files to imgur and then displayed them both on a similar background using a html table. I did this so that if they were quoted, they would always be on a gray background, though it doesn't really matter.
(Drag the left image onto the right one)
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 5000
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| Preng wrote: |
| ...Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? |
A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch.
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
Joined: Apr 29 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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| Preng wrote: |
| ...Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? |
Heh, such a good movie.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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Conspiracy Unmasked!
From left to right.
* The decoder for Sydlexia.com
* Encoded Sydlexia.com
* Sydlexia.com as you know it
* Sydlexia.com... what is really under the hood.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Posts: 5316
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Do these need to be resized? Because I can't unmask them. 
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
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I knew it! The sting operation was a... something I just came up with, how about them brownies and not the ones that weren't laced with... stuff
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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The images I posted are all 200px thumbnails. Only the first from the left is encoded. The two right ones are both already decoded, you don't need to use the bars on them. You can just read what they have to say.
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