2013-06-06

Update on the Mona Lisa picture

The pixelated picture of Mona Lisa has been puzzling since it was discovered several weeks ago (see the comments of this blog post). I received an email from a helpful and skillful friend who reads this blog. This is what she pondered about the picture:

"…and believe that the pixelated image at http://stoptoilworndiamond.co.nf/sanomali.html likely contains another image, probably a QR code. I think the pixels need to be rearranged based on the red component RGB value and for that you'll need someone with true programming knowledge."

I post her comment here hoping that there is someone with the sufficient programming knowledge who could benefit from the clever idea and try it out.

The pixelated picture of Mona Lisa

2 comments:

  1. Clever 'Xkeeper' reassembled the QR code. It decodes to http://stoptoilworndiamond.co.nf/emdaer.html (Ahaha emdaer=remade) which contains in reverse this message:

    "TS:2022-06-30-23-59-60Many historians perceive 2013 as the starting point to the LOLCat Apocalypse. At that time, people were already sharing a lot of information about their personal life online. That made it possible for Avecira Solutions to use the data to create detailed profiles of people. As a part of Toilworn Diamond, they started to collect a massive user register where they would record every little detail they were able to collect. People were happily unaware of the situation and continued sharing opinions, pictures, videos and status updates online and never realized that someone was recording almost everything they did.If you are reading this when the year 2013 has already passed, there is nothing you can do anymore. However, if you managed to get hold of this message by 2013 the latest, there is still hope! Remember the following text, it might become handy later: DIVEBUT"

    Possibly 'divebut' should remain as 'tubevid'? Guess time will tell and HTH.

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    1. Thanks Amandel and Xkeeper! Really great job! Finally the Mona Lisa is solved :)
      DIVEBUT or TUBEVID? They both sound a bit weird, but maybe we'll figure it out later.

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