didactic blue

Aghamemnon · Post by **Aghamemnon** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:46 pm

I can't believe my self I really solved it

<html>
<head><title>blue</title></head>
<body>
<tt>
 ^^          look ||   main      <br />
             here \/             <br />
   `0oaoo   .__,<br />
   |       /    \ /===>  /))))><br />
   !       I    | |<br />
   i       |--_-! -=+:\  I-==~<br />
   I       |    i     |<br />
   \=--o>  A    } \--=/  \__--.<br />
<br />
 the answer is not 'oldshape'<br />
<br />
 :D        $$                *
</tt>
</body>
</html>

big effort right?

Aghamemnon · Post by **Aghamemnon** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:47 pm

318
now it's 319

hahahahaha

Aghamemnon · Post by **Aghamemnon** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:06 pm

I spent a lot of time solving this challenge by hand
someone may help get a new solving method

netfish · Post by **netfish** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:37 pm

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<pre>
<?php
$img = imagecreatefrompng ('http://www.hacker.org/challenge/img/blue.png');
for ($h = 11; $h >= 0; $h--)
{
    for ($w = 0; $w < 33; $w++)
      echo chr (imagecolorat ($img, $w, $h) & 0xFF);
    echo '<br />';
}
?>

virstulte · Post by **virstulte** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:26 pm

@netfish: that's an amazingly simple solution, well done. I converted the image to PPM binary with IrfanView and loaded the text in Vim.

Aghamemnon · Post by **Aghamemnon** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:12 am

Will you believe it
The answer is visible right in the image
just do the conversion and you'll see it

JayArr · Post by **JayArr** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:51 am

solved it like netfish but with java.

Xipho · Post by **Xipho** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:15 pm

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$ pngtopnm blue.png
P6
33 12
255
 :D        $$                *                                     the answer is not 'oldshape'                                        \=--o>  A    } \--=/  \__--.     I       |    i     |  |          i       |--_-! -=+:\  I-==~      !       I    | |      |          |       /    \ /==>>  /))))>     `0oOoo   .__,                       $      here \/              ^^      $   look ||   main()

Took me a while to get the ASCII art right, though.

darkcipher · Post by **darkcipher** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:18 am

convert blue.png -flip blue2.png
pngtopnm blue2.png | fold -w 99