On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:46:21AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote: > 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. Wow. If you can solve a dotgram with a computer program, I can refer you to a half dozen computer scientists working on machine vision that would *love* to hear about it.
-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010502/8e2b0c1d/attachment.pgp>
