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Hidden Messages
I'm sure that there are loads of people out there that already know this but I thought I'd mention it anyway as it's quite interesting.
The Caeser Shift code is the simplest cipher, basically A=B, B=C, C=D and so on until you reach the the end where Z=A.
The Psychotic computer in Arthur C Clarke's 2001 A Space Odyssey was called HAL.
Neat hidden message Mr Clarke!!
If anyone knows of any other cool code type things or hidden messages in literature then this would be the place to put them.
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Ok, here's one: On his single 'Windowlicker', Aphex Twin hides an image of his own face on the second track 'Formula / Symbol'.
Here's a quote from wikipedia-
'Viewing a spectrogram of the second track reveals hidden images that were apparently synthesized as sound by Aphex Twin for the express purpose of being discovered in this manner. It is one of the few instances of an artist using steganography to embed a representation of his own face into his music (see also these artists: Interlace - Innuendo, Venetian Snares - Songs about my cats). A spectrogram of the first track, "Windowlicker", also reveals a spiral at the end of the song. This spiral is more impressive when viewed with an X-Y scatter graph, X and Y being the amplitudes of the L and R channels, which shows expanding and contracting concentric circles and spirals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowlicker
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have you got any images of this or links to software to find or even make images in the sound.
Totally cool idea though, hiding complete images in a music track, beats the be-jeezus out of playing some satanic message backwards!!
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And here is another article with more images.
https://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php
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"Whats the thing with people drinking Evian bottled water thinking its doing them good??
Spell Evian backwards.
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I might have a go at that myself some day.
Steve, it's funny that these things are around us day to day but you don't even notice them until they're pointed out to you!!
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That's where I've heard the evian thing before!! I swear that's been bugging me all day!!
ANyway, I had a shot at the spectrograph stuff and you get some pretty cool sounds through it, very 1950's Sci-Fi.
CHECK THIS OUT
That sound is the fruits of literally minutes of hard labour!! It makes this image, I always wondered how I sounded!!
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I tried reversing the sound and it doesn't sound much different to be honest. When you run it through the spectograph the image is reversed too.
I promise that I didn't just flip the image!!
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aphex twin rocks im listening to come to daddy right now!!!Originally posted by arran
cool hidden message.
Ok, here's one: On his single 'Windowlicker', Aphex Twin hides an image of his own face on the second track 'Formula / Symbol'.
if i find any little codes like thiese ill post em up
didnt know anyone else aroun here knew of aphex twin...
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