Diagonal? north east to south west and rotated 180 (Early and no coffee yet)
Yeah,was a bit too quick to write that, whatever way you split it evenly is going to give two very similar sections.
Just seems weird that on such a large image there are only 2 differences in the pattern and they are very close together.
Tried manually decoding it as an Aztec anyway, but didn't get a working code, although i could have made a mistake.