Results and archival data
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:13 am
We all know about this now, right? http://alphalupi.bungie.net/data/
The link on http://alphalupi.bungie.net/ArraySuccessResult.html is easy to miss so if you didn't I don't blame you. I also wasn't sure if it wasn't being discussed or the discussion was going on elsewhere.
There's also the PNG that's kind of in the background of the result page that the new easy pointed out in another thread.
There's interesting stuff in that archive and two things in particular I'm wondering about, and I'm going to look at that background image. Right now I can say the background picture and the other files I'm thinking of don't seem to have any notable text in them (looking at the files in ASCII form), and in looking I realized one of the files isn't what it appears to be. If I investigate I'll probably be up all night, so I'll leave this at that for now.
edit: OK, here's what I found, I haven't gotten to checking more than one thing yet. In that archive, there's a text file with instructions (which I mostly didn't understand), a file that can't be opened (it's called web.config and I think it just has to do with server stuff), and seven directories (folders). Each directory there has files relating to each day of "transmissions". They have copies of the geomask and output pictures at varying intervals (they start at five minutes) from when each day's transmission became available to now (they didn't stop when the week was over or on the "end date" of 2/23). Along with those they have transformations of each output, what looks like all the output together, transformations of that, and apparently the same pictures with a repeated transformation, going by the file names. They also have the 512x512 version of the final picture for each day (picture.jpg). The kicker is that each directory has a puzzlemask.bmp, which seems to be the picture that was hidden each day.
The link on http://alphalupi.bungie.net/ArraySuccessResult.html is easy to miss so if you didn't I don't blame you. I also wasn't sure if it wasn't being discussed or the discussion was going on elsewhere.
There's also the PNG that's kind of in the background of the result page that the new easy pointed out in another thread.
There's interesting stuff in that archive and two things in particular I'm wondering about, and I'm going to look at that background image. Right now I can say the background picture and the other files I'm thinking of don't seem to have any notable text in them (looking at the files in ASCII form), and in looking I realized one of the files isn't what it appears to be. If I investigate I'll probably be up all night, so I'll leave this at that for now.
edit: OK, here's what I found, I haven't gotten to checking more than one thing yet. In that archive, there's a text file with instructions (which I mostly didn't understand), a file that can't be opened (it's called web.config and I think it just has to do with server stuff), and seven directories (folders). Each directory there has files relating to each day of "transmissions". They have copies of the geomask and output pictures at varying intervals (they start at five minutes) from when each day's transmission became available to now (they didn't stop when the week was over or on the "end date" of 2/23). Along with those they have transformations of each output, what looks like all the output together, transformations of that, and apparently the same pictures with a repeated transformation, going by the file names. They also have the 512x512 version of the final picture for each day (picture.jpg). The kicker is that each directory has a puzzlemask.bmp, which seems to be the picture that was hidden each day.