kn0w0n3: Thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate the effort to get me up to speed on the coding. I figured out my errors eventually(bacon with 6bits vs 5bits). We were using different inputs and methods though. I was suggesting construction like this:

first 12 flames (space delimited flames) = 0yp 1yg 1yg 0og 1yp 1op 0yg 1op 1yg 0yg 1op 0yg

and taking one bit per flame on a rotation of height (1) outside color (y) and inside color (o)

first 12 flames after operation = 0 y g 0 y p 0 o g 0 o g       which gives 011010001001 according to my scheme

xor of that is of course '000000010011'

My point was that if you followed this pattern around the path you'd always get 0xxxxx0xxxxx0xxxxx0xxxxx (before xoring) which would suggest that constant 0 in front of every 6 bits could be a delimiter. So I was breaking into 6s then throwing out the leading zero and debaconing on the remaining 5 bits.


Bacon on the 6s throwaway the leading zero
Doing that now I get->  JAYWUZUZVY.....
and after xoring -> AT_CMODODPCF.....

Bacon on the 5s keeping the zero
Doing this I now get -> NCIBQWK....
after xoring -> AE_IEMHAZY...