Quote from: captainnoob on January 24, 2018, 02:09:12 AM

There are 8 unique combination of border/fill/height for each of the flames on the border (10 if you count the orange ones, but they look like noise to me).

Red,Green,Tall
Red,Green,Short
Red,Purple,Tall
Red,Purple,Short
Yellow,Green,Tall
Yellow,Green,Short
Yellow,Purple,Tall
Yellow,Purple,Short

I think there is a real possibility that this a representation of octal, but not direct octal > text. I think it might be encoded a couple of levels... Something like octal > hex -or- binary > Morse > etc.

There are 40,320 possible ways to assign 0-8 to each of the color/height combinations. Also, not knowing the direction to read the information makes it more of a shot in the dark. So manually checking this might be unreasonable, and even scripting this is going to produce quite a bit of information to sift through. It would be nice if there were some clues available that might narrow the possibilities. I will try to script this out when I have some time. I think it might be best to grab a small sample rather than the whole thing.

If anyone has the ability to get this scripted out faster than me, I would really appreciate it if you would share your code with me.

I can modify my code to do this, but I don't know what you are going to do with the output, After you've represented the 152 flames as octal numbers and converted that to binary you'll have 456 bits. I'm not sure how you would convert that to morse, seeing as morse is trinary.., but let's say you could. We still don't know starting position, so we could try all 456 possibilities combined with your 40,320 possible ways of assigning octal numbers is 18,385,920 outputs. Wanna read the inner and outer tracks both directions? 73,543,680 possible combinations. Don't know whether to start with inner or outer flames? 147,087,360 possible outputs. Forgetting that maybe all 8 tracks were painted out of order and seeing as, in reality, you will also need to brute force the spaces, your output is going to be astronomical..., so what I'm saying is, unless you can think of some ways to narrow this down, I don't think it's worth the effort. I mean you could compare the output to a dictionary, but that doesn't do you any good if she/he/they didn't hide a message.