here's a cleaned up version of the alphabet phoenix&y posted (jpeg artifacts removed, solid colours for the blocks, no anti-aliasing, lossless compression) :

 

(like the style in the way you've used the code in yer avatar phoenix&y :cool:)

 

well done and thnx :D

 

Ill make a 'decode version' if no one else preceeds me :P

here's a cleaned up version of the alphabet phoenix&y posted (jpeg artifacts removed, solid colours for the blocks, no anti-aliasing, lossless compression) :

 

(like the style in the way you've used the code in yer avatar phoenix&y :cool:)

 

well done and thnx :D

 

Ill make a 'decode version' if no one else preceeds me :P

 

d'ya mean like this ?

i had been thinking, prior to doing this, how did you choose what colours to use for the missing letters ? I suspected some may have been wrong because we've not found a pattern yet to the choice of colours. But, having done the above rearrangement, it made it easier to see a kind of pattern. So, I've taken the liberty of recolouring some of the letters (god i'm a geek !!)

so, here's the latest version of the alphabet image :-

 

of course, we're quite probably still wrong with some of the colours

I was off the board for a couple of days and look what happened :lol:

Wait...what are the numbers in the bottom for?

Wait...what are the numbers in the bottom for?

 

they're the decimal representations of the binary numbers for each letter (e.g A = 00011 = 3, B = 11001 = 25 etc) i put them in purely to make sorting the alphabet into numerical order a bit easier to do.

Wow :cool:

OMG!

I see it!

it took me forver to see how you people cracked the entire alphabet

lol

i didnt see how each two colored blocks on the covers meant one numer on the binary code

lol

 

but how did u get the colors?

the colours are still guesswork at the moment (except for the letters we already know)

guess what ? i fucked up :embarrased:

 

the latest charts have got the N wrong - thanks owenrees for spotting the error. anyway, here's the chart with the PROPER n. oh yeah, it's been renamed ITA2.gif coz it is ITA2 code after all and not Baudot (ITA2 is based on Baudot)

So my avatar wrong :cry:

It's alright now :D

wow, that's so confusing i don't understand the whole number thing, but whatever! awesome job on cracking it :cool: :P

lol ya!

thats awesome

Great job!! wow. well i for one am confused with it all. :P

its that sexy code let me tell ya'

Here's the alphabet again with correct colors:

so on the Y&Y cover

 

you have X on the left

Y on the right

 

A (for AND) at the top

 

then in the middle bottom two 0's

 

seems to me they are put in just to make it more mysterious and also make the two green lines become the Make Trade Fair logo.

wow look at all the views for this thread, hey I thought we were supposed to get bling for that!

:lol:

So is there a code for &, ?, ! and all the rest of those characters? Or is it just an alphabetical code?

there are codes for the following non-alphabetical characters - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - ! " $ & ( ) ; : ' # , . /

Now to really flip your lid. I have found something mysterious on the front page of coldplay.com. If you save the main GIF image, and view it you can see that most of the blue background is transparent, except for two tiny strips between the dashes (between X and &, and between & and Y). I have attached a picture of what it looks like close up:

 

 

Now that you can see the pixels, there are several rows of 5 in each of them. As I see it, this is not a mix up on the part of the web designer, as everything else on this website is no short of genius. I tried matching this up as code, but didn't get very far. Here is how I decoded it with the ITA2 Baudot chart:

 

T   --22-9//55

and

VQGG OA MBA

 

I have been freaking out for the last hour trying to figure out what it means! Just wanted to make sure if I found some hidden treasure worth free tickets, I would get them, but I am sure it is just something else to toy with our minds. SO I thought the ppl here would appreciate it most. Have at it!