Title: Shape-encoded information Post by: Dinkydau on June 13, 2017, 01:52:08 PM Shape-encoded information
(http://nocache-nocookies.digitalgott.com/gallery/20/445_13_06_17_1_52_08.png) http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=20366 You can literally store bits of information in a zoom path by, for example, zooming in on a spike of a seahorse julia set and choosing to go either left (0) or right (1). The information is then encoded in every shape you get to see from there on. Title: Re: Shape-encoded information Post by: TheRedshiftRider on June 13, 2017, 02:47:43 PM Never noticed that. Really cool.
Title: Re: Shape-encoded information Post by: M Benesi on June 13, 2017, 03:59:53 PM Seems efficient. :D
We can send messages with Mandelbrot set coordinates. This will end up in a movie in three.... Title: Re: Shape-encoded information Post by: hapf on June 13, 2017, 08:38:03 PM You can do the same thing with babushkas by going left or right. Someone should
tell Dan Brown... :dink: Title: Re: Shape-encoded information Post by: Alef on June 14, 2017, 11:19:33 AM I hope none would tell CIA ;) cia kgb fsb anb terrorism islam these keywords posted would be enought to attract these agencies.
:sphappy: Title: Re: Shape-encoded information Post by: hobold on June 15, 2017, 06:27:58 AM The principle is called "steganography". You obscure secret information by hiding it within a larger amount of public information. The secret bits then seem to be an innocent part of the whole. The novel "Cryptonomicon", for example, uses a shuffled deck of cards to store the secret key of a symmetrical cipher. |