On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:38:32AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> >
> > Why not just display the insertion key in 3D text (such as that rendered by
> > many of the gimp plugins), with lots of funky color and lighting effects.
> > Even animate it somehow. It can be converted to ascii art using aalib, for
> > console users.
> Main problem is the amount of data that requires. You can't send a
> description of the scene, because thats going to be easily recognized and
> cracked by a machine. But other than that its fine.
? I don't see it requiring that much data to encode. It's just a banner-sized
picture with low resolution and few colors. It is exactly the characters that
constitute the insertion key, the user just needs to type them in.
Suppose you use a 64-character set [a-zA-Z] plus 2 punctuation characters.
Just 6 characters gives you 64^6 == 2^36 combinations. Plus the puzzle can
be randomly generated without human intervention.
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# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
# a continual flight from wonder."
# - Albert Einstein
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