On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:19:48AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> >
> > Now you just need to suggest a puzzle which is machine generatable, not
> > machine solvable, and not too obnoxious.
>
> Heres one idea, but I dont think it generates enough information for a
> key. I define "enough information" to be greater than 2^32 choices for
> someone to do a brute force insertion to cover all the possibilities
> mechanically.
>
> Easy: Generate an image that contains a polygon formed from sparse,
> non-connected dots more densly packed where the letter is. Make it
> significantly random. Machine vision programs will suck at this, neural
> nets can do it but they have to be fairly large and will be slow.
> Then present a 4 x 4 tile of line drawings. Ask the user to pick which
> one looks like the dotgram.
I can already think of how to have a computer defeat this. If you are
just using this problem, it would not be hard at all to make a
specialized program for getting past this.
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