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Dragon wrote:Not sure if this has been posted before, but has anyone tried writing the digits around the sides of six hexagons? There's clearly something significant about the fact that there are 6 numbers, and that they are each 6 digits long.

Perhaps, if the six hexagons are arranged around a center hexagon, it will produce some kind of message. Just a thought.


http://imgur.com/LwxrqxT

Edit: The first thing that comes to mind is operations between opposite sides, but that doesn't really yield anything.


Have you tried tiling them?

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If you use the numbers as hexadecimal colour values you get this. Not sure if it means anything, but there's a lot of green. :)

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brokendrum70 wrote:If you use the numbers as hexadecimal colour values you get this. Not sure if it means anything, but there's a lot of green. :)

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Reminds me of the banner on Bocpages

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Been a bit bored today as at the old folks. Decided to transpose number sequence onto a major key in Ableton with a monosynth with 1 note gaps for slashes in code. Sounds ok i guess haha :roll:

http://snd.sc/ZOkqg0

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psyops wrote:Been a bit bored today as at the old folks. Decided to transpose number sequence onto a major key in Ableton with a monosynth with 1 note gaps for slashes in code. Sounds ok i guess haha :roll:

http://snd.sc/ZOkqg0


should have used a warmer synth :)

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psyops wrote:Been a bit bored today as at the old folks. Decided to transpose number sequence onto a major key in Ableton with a monosynth with 1 note gaps for slashes in code. Sounds ok i guess haha :roll:

http://snd.sc/ZOkqg0

Hah nice, you're right, doesn't sound bad :)
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psyops wrote:Been a bit bored today as at the old folks. Decided to transpose number sequence onto a major key in Ableton with a monosynth with 1 note gaps for slashes in code. Sounds ok i guess haha :roll:

http://snd.sc/ZOkqg0

Hah nice, you're right, doesn't sound bad :)


Love your username! That's the album that got me into Bibio. :)

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here is a download of the rough trade/npr code in case anyone missed it:


http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gtik7b74bgiek8g

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http://i.imgur.com/JDVa1Uy.jpg this is literally terrifying to me for some reason

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Anyone counting how many numbers each so far?

111=3
222222=6
33=2
4=1
5555=4
666=3
7777=4
88=2
9999=4

Probably means absolutely nothing, haha.

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Well, since my last visit, it looks like we've got nothing but speculation going on here..barfffff :roll:
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harpoon dodger wrote:Well, since my last visit, it looks like we've got nothing but speculation going on here..barfffff :roll:


Haha, I know, I am getting annoyed too, but else is there to do?

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harpoon dodger wrote:Well, since my last visit, it looks like we've got nothing but speculation going on here..barfffff :roll:


Haha, I know, I am getting annoyed too, but else is there to do?


Let's get drunk!
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This is pretty awesome. Some CA BOC redditors are headed out to the abandoned gas station right now.

http://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/ ... ite_rough/
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gjieck wrote:Very briefly:

- At 20:35 UK time Rough Trade twitted: "Wonder what this is going on opposite Rough Trade East?..." with an image showing warp logo been projected on the shop window. https://twitter.com/RoughTrade/status/3 ... 0846171136

- A video loop started and kept on going for some time. It showed what seems a desert, and then a still image showing XXXXXX/------/------/------/------/------. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZXFSngACXo

- Sound could be heard coming from inside the building. It was the jingle followed by numbers that we all know. The numbers were hardly recognizable but someone managed to record them https://soundcloud.com/cydoniac/voice-002-mp3

- Appearently, they were the same numbers of NPR. This was just about telling us the placement of the NPR sequence, since it was the only one we weren't sure about. http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.p ... 469#188469


LOVE THE PROJECTION! oh man....this is so great

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chilloutscene wrote:This is pretty awesome. Some CA BOC redditers are headed out to the abandoned gas station right now.

http://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/ ... ite_rough/


"National Trails Highway" and the circles near that address are very BoC looking too: http://i.imgur.com/nmHaAWV.jpg

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I just had an epiphany about how these numbers could be turned into a message!

Way back when I was in grade 4, I had this kid's book of codes. My friend and I ended up using the following method to encrypt/decrypt our secret notes: The encrypter would write down a column of numbers next to a column of words. The decrypter would take each number/word pair, and then count to the number's position in the word. That would return one letter.

For example: 5, synthesizer would return the letter h (or e if you start counting from 0)

I'm thinking we could pair up these numbers with the words we've been given to form a message similarly to this.

6 9 9 7 4 2 / 6 2 8 3 1 5 / 7 1 7 2 2 8 / 9 3 6 5 5 7 / _ _ _ _ _ _ / 5 1 9 2 2 5

1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer

and this was in the banner:
csch,hexagon sun,boc,hell interface,boards of canada,music70,boctransmission,hexagonsun,fyt,twoism

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http://i.imgur.com/JDVa1Uy.jpg

You can do some interesting things with the numbers and the ones above and below them. You can pair up some 2s on the bottom-most row with a single 5 on the second row from the bottom to add up to 9 on the third row. The inner 5s (besides the very middle one, which is left alone for now) can be paired with 2s to make 7s. Subtract 3 from 9 and you get your 6s. Subtract 1 from 8 to get a couple of 7s. After all this, you'll have a lone 1 and lone 5 at the bottom - subtract 1 from 5 to get the single 4.

imgur being difficult, here is a rudimentary drawing

http://tinypic.com/r/xm7v4h/5
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anyone try the ol'....

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Dunno what that would return...but...


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