wayne

so, here's the latest version of the alphabet image :- of course, we're quite probably still wrong with some of the colours

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 !!)

well done and thnx :D Ill make a 'decode version' if no one else preceeds me :P d'ya mean like this ?

i caved in :( :lol:

don't tempt me :lol:

i'm not gonna tell you which is which :sneaky: :lol: (other than this is both of the latest request side by side)

start charging and give the money to Make Trade Fair! :idea2: :lol: i've got a paypal account :wink3: :lol:

is pink ok ? :)

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:)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

impossible to get for free, this? i've used a free font called Village before - that's practically spot on.

What subject and how much ya willing to pay ? :lol:

also, i tend to find that the longer you leave a torrent downloading, the faster it'll get. just leave yer computer on for a few hours :) i usually find torrents faster than most p2p for stuff (unless of course it's as common as muck)

i'm working on it, i'm working on it :lol:

i;m not convinced a mistake has been made with regards to the & - i suspect we've just not got the right variation of the original Baudot. Another thing to mention is that everything sussed out so far is not the original Baudot code but later variation developed by Donald Murray in 1901 and is also the same as ITA2. Both of these tables do still give a 9 for 00011 though :/

i'm an idiot - i've been reading the - bit pattern back to front and based on baudot, coldplay's & does actually (as others have said,map to a 9 and not a hypen - :dozey: )

Yeah Wayne, how did you ever think, "Ooooh, maybe its written in Baudot Code! EUREKA!!!!" :cool: not really - i'd not heard of baudot code before :lol: to cut a long story short, i started working out ascii codes using 10-bits but quickly changed to five bits (pairs of colours, e.g. black and grey, representing a single bit rather than two). This gave D = 9 , E = 1, F = 13 and so on. having three letters (D, E, F) that were next to each other in the alphabet was a great help because it looked likely (from the above numbers) that there was no obvious logical pattern to the numbers that the letters represented. So, i thought, it must've been some specific 5-bit encoding scheme. The good old internet gave me some stuff to sift through on various 5-bit encoding schemes, eventually turning up Baudot. A quick run through all 10 letters we currently have matched up and therefore baudot was probably the one. The deciphering of the secret gig wrist band to discover LIVE was ultimate proof. I felt well smug :smug: :lol: Props to owenrees though for spotting the dashes matching up to letters ! As regards the & in X&Y, it takes up two columns (the first being the figure shift, the second the character), it's been pointed out that it's not an ampersand. It is actually a hypen, giving X-Y. I suppose that's either as they intended or they're using some slight variation on baudot encoding that gives a different bit pattern for &. Good stuff though innit ? :)

search for "baudot code" in google - you'll find everything you need to know :) it's well smart - the code was primarily used in telegraph systems - very fitting that coldplay have chosen a code table primarily used for people to talk to other. interestingly, the & in X&Y appears to be a hypen ie. X-Y unless of course they've chosen a code table that is a slight variation on the baudot code. btw, thanks owenrees for pointing out the ---- -- ----- thing.

and not forgetting, "coldplaying" :-

here's how to write "coldplay"

here's my prediction of the "what if" cover (if they release it as a single, which i bet they do)

i'm fairly confident that i've cracked the code. here's the full alphabet :-