Comments on: Star Trek ARG Update 5 – First Video Clue + more [UPDATED w/ another clue!]

By: Daoud

Daoud — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:37:25 +0000

#178 Hey Marvin, I’m talking about the perception there was a Roman V on the grass. That’s why I was pointing out these images (like the others in the game) are photoshopped. I was being polite to mention the image is photoshopped. You’re being impolite, or rather like Perez, I wanted to use the “c” word to describe you.

By: Osh

Osh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:59:27 +0000

Oh, looks like there’s a new ARG Update story on here. I’d should have been posting there. Oh well.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:36:52 +0000

By the way I forgot the C. It is of course

CHAMAELEON:13-23

By: Osh

Osh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:29:51 +0000

Okay, now I’ll explain how I got the QR code in post #195:

Every QR code has those square-within-a-square’s in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left corners. Each one also has timing and alignment markers. If you assume the QR code is a 27 X 27 code like the rest have been, then when you divide the QR code into nine blocks, they all have to have to have this format:

http://www3.telus.net/tw6/gareth/qrbase.gif (with the white spaces in blocks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 filled with the actual information of the code)

Each of the nine block of the code can be subdivided into its own 9 X 9 cell, which can again be divided into another 3 X 3 partition, just like how a sudoku puzzle looks. So when you look at Sargash Si’s Facebook pictures (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1714655232&v=wall&viewas=509390194#/album.php?aid=188&id=1714655232), you can see that the filled-in sudoku squares can correspond to the black pixels. Since blocks 1, 3, and 7 are already given in the above picture, we can create ourselves a QR code using the numbers of the blocks in the captions of the Facebook pictures:

http://www3.telus.net/tw6/gareth/qr3.gif Tada!