Imagine all the silicon

Xeyes · Post by **Xeyes** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:06 am

What is the point of Imagine all the silicon challenge? There is nothing to look for

anantshri · Post by **anantshri** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:28 pm

I am also working on it.

my wild guess is a steago simplest will try that as soon as i get to my programming desk.
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Xeyes · Post by **Xeyes** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:48 pm

Actually what I meant was I just opened the file and got the answer straight away without doing anything so I was wondering if it was just me or if it was kind of useless challenge

anantshri · Post by **anantshri** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:14 pm

thanks for the tips

This seems to be getting over me

I missed something that basic

NOTE : i think the point is to find the right kind of application to open the file.

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Xeyes · Post by **Xeyes** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:34 am

anantshri wrote: NOTE : i think the point is to find the right kind of application to open the file.

I thought so too.

anantshri wrote:ALSO thanks for visiting my blog

You're welcome

iliis · Post by **iliis** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:45 am

yap, with a somewhat acutal os it isnt a challenge at all

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:15 am

...or a decent editor.

I believe Xeye is correct... it seems like an archaic format that no one really supports.

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:05 pm

the format should be the challenge, the challenge name gives a hint (.sgi is a graphic format from silicon graphics inc.)

markobr · Post by **markobr** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:23 pm

Xeyes wrote:What is the point of Imagine all the silicon challenge? There is nothing to look for :?

Indeed, what is the point? For Ubuntu users the "challenge" consists in being able to read - and to realise there is indeed no other challenge. Well, this may be fair insofar as there are other challenges like "Compression" which require the use of software not easily available under Linux. But I really would prefer challenges whose difficulty doesn't depend on your OS.

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:51 am

The point is that a certain OS can make a challenge easier, but you can still do it under any OS. If you really want to make the most of a challenge, write a program to read the format! They're pretty well balanced between Mac OS and Linux as well - Compression was sooo easy under Mac Os.

chephy · Post by **chephy** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 3:47 am

It's easy on OS X too:

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convert someimage.sgi someimage.png
open someimage.png

kra3 · Post by **kra3** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:28 pm

since I had gimp, it automatically opened in it. 4 sec. Done

th4wri · Post by **th4wri** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:04 pm

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Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:44 pm

th4wri, you can post the exact tools you used in the "Challenges Solved" section.

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