Lucy In The Sky With Briolettes

Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:21 pm

So is this some kind of steganography?

I wrote a Java program which can decode the example given on the Wikipedia page, and tried it with different parameters. Didn't get anything meaningful out of it though.

Since you can hide a message in a picture in many different ways (the article lists more than a dozen methods), trying out all of them would be a whole damn lot of work...

michuber · Post by **michuber** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:28 pm

It's very helpful to understand the pun.

Redford · Post by **Redford** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 4:58 pm

I investigated very carefully the png stream and found nothing

I also tried analyzing the raw pixel values and many other ideas, without success. Is it possible to solve this without understanding the pun? I'm not a native Englishman, so it's very hard for me to interpret this hint. Can google help me? (maybe "Lucy" is some character from movie or something?) Should I try to speak loud the pun?

--- EDIT ---
Ok, I understand the title

Nice idea

(google ftw)
Is "The gem is not what you want." some kind of wordplay too?

Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:59 pm

michuber wrote:It's very helpful to understand the pun.

Hm, which pun? Diamonds/briolettes is not really a pun, unless maybe one mumbled very incomprehensibly

Perhaps you mean "The jam is not what you want"? Strawberry Fields Forever!

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:42 pm

AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:
michuber wrote:It's very helpful to understand the pun.
Hm, which pun? Diamonds/briolettes is not really a pun, unless maybe one mumbled very incomprehensibly

Well, I see a pun, but it hasn't helped me… it suggested a technique, and that technique has yielded some interesting patterns, but nothing concrete.

Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:50 am

laz0r wrote:I see a pun

You see a pun?
Lu see in the sky with die monds?

I really have no idea what's supposed to be the pun here.

Not being a native speaker does not help, obviously.

michuber · Post by **michuber** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:08 pm

Reading the wikipedia article (even in german) may help you to find the technique.
But, as laz0r wrote, the second part is much harder.

EDIT: @laz0r: You have to see the bigger picture, literally.

helly0d · Post by **helly0d** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:39 pm

Does it have anything to do with the fact that they were L.S.D. consumers? And following the same pattern could solve this?