Comments on: Hidden Message by Brad Troemel

By: MikedeBC82

MikedeBC82 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:09:49 +0000

by clicking and dragging I meant if you click and drag any image (in firefox at least) you can drag around a transparency of that image.. if you drag the white block over the black you you can see faint white lettering.. same with the red one over the white one.. bleh

By: hohop

hohop — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:33:18 +0000

########SPOILER BELOW##########

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For those that didn’t have the time to stare long enough, the black panel reads:
“ongradulations, you, are, the, millionth”

Yes, I know the spelling is off for “congratulations” but that’s what I could make out. (I reeeeeally stared)

Can’t say it was worth the 20 minutes. If only it had told me how to satiate my curiosity for lame, enigmatic art…

#############SPOILER ABOVE#####################
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By: matt

matt — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:35:01 +0000

umm i just stood up and looked at my screen… no need for making it complicated

By: Scotty A

Scotty A — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:07:19 +0000

Just stick it in Photoshop and turn the levels down.

By: doeabuck

doeabuck — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:53:26 +0000

that’s really cool.
my screen is at an angel to start with so no adjustments needed (:

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:27:45 +0000

My son spent a happy holiday exchanging secret messages with a friend by printing them in speckly-filled yellow print on white paper. Very hard to read until you scan it.

Recent printers add colour speckles in a predetermined pattern to let the government follow you up if you do naughty things.

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

By: Frau

Frau — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:20:09 +0000

Took the black one into a photo thingy and adjusted values. Maybe I didn’t eat enough carrots as a child?

But had no prob with the others.

By: gwdMaine

gwdMaine — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:15:22 +0000

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:09:36 +0000

I just turned up the contrast on my monitor and i could read them fine

By: sw

sw — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:56:21 +0000

but why? not even an interesting message

By: Xerloq

Xerloq — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:43:48 +0000

The ghosts thing didn’t work for me. Magic Wand @ tolerance 1 worked on the black one. The other two were easy.

By: just a guy

just a guy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:40:04 +0000

can’t read black one. :c

also, click and drag the images? O_o

By: MikedeBC82

MikedeBC82 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:18:28 +0000

for those who think these need photoshoppery.. try clicking and dragging the ‘ghosts’ of the blocks over each other.. voila. No adjustments needed. Way to overcomplicate things.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:23:08 +0000

I have a hint for aspiring artists: When you hide a message, and then tell the world that you did it, be sure that the message is something worth the effort.

By: ted

ted — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:43:16 +0000

Couldn’t read it. Kinda silly. The other two were pretty simple. Nothing to see here, folks.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:19:52 +0000

I couldnt read this one without adjusting it, the other two were plain as day just by looking right at them

By: Zecc

Zecc — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:09:41 +0000

I still can’t read the last line.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:15:53 +0000

Naw, man. You can read it at an oblique angle …

By: sirwebster

sirwebster — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:12:46 +0000

had to take the black one into photoshop to read it, the white and red ones i just looked at at an odd angle though, hooray for cheap lcd’s