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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by noroute@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Encoding/decoding. If something exists, it has a 25% chance of harboring a hidden message.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I no list Alps what chess can fleester fields of the nephilim

[–] gwkt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it could be interesting to encode messages into the DNA of an ant, for example, then mail the ant somewhere so that the receiver can sequence the DNA and decode the message

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's been done, though it's much harder to do on living things because attempting to change the DNA of something that's still alive opens up a can of worms that makes it not worth it. They've once proved you can encode the whole of Wikipedia on a few strands of hair.

[–] gwkt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn. Wikipedia pictures too or just text?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Probably the read-only version.

[–] turkelton@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you look at art and try to decode?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot of times, yes. With surprising results.

For example, a form of letter substitution was made where different squiggle combinations were different letters, made so that a drawing can be drawn and the code could be visible in the lined drawing's lines, making sure the code was made in such a way that it could be used no matter what was being drawn.

Colors, shapes, sizes, noise, measurements, anything that can be distinguished into forms and types is potentially someone's communicating.

[–] turkelton@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh cool - can you share the name of that work/those works?

I actually meant less "encrypted" artworks, but more "regular" works, where you would wonder the artists intent or try see what feelings the artwork can offer and why it works.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I could give the code, but not the works. I actually forgot what the works were with that (I looked).

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

In exactly sixty seconds, I'll post a relevant image to this page on this thread.