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637 points robinhouston | 11 comments | | HN request time: 1.479s | source | bottom
1. mijoharas ◴[] No.36209178[source]
What are the messages hidden in each video. Unless I'm mistaken, the text below doesn't say what the hidden message is?

In addition, does anyone have a version of the video with the messages visible, as outlined in the first description:

   Entire message can be seen clearly by using video editing software and applying a tracer/echo effect and having 60 images in a trail that each are 0.033 seconds after the previous. This process can also be repeated with code.
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2. nine_k ◴[] No.36209296[source]
The first video shows diagonal rows of.. creatures, reminiscent maybe of crabs, or maybe flowers. They are pretty clearly visible once you repeat the video several times, and watch the black empty spaces between color lines, instead of the lines themselves (much like Castaneda describes it).

The second one contains some intricate pattern or maybe letters, but still more like flowers. I was unable to make out any definite shapes.

The third one contains letters in the vertical columns. I could not make out enough to read a complete message, but certain letters, like R, S, or E in the left columns are pretty clearly visible after several repetitions. The largest fragment I could detect with enough certainty is ...ERS IS THE... in the leftmost column.

Disclaimer: absolutely clean, no psychedelic or other mind-altering substances.

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3. jibbers ◴[] No.36209353[source]
I see the words "WE LOVE YOU" in the negative space in the first video.
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4. nine_k ◴[] No.36209366{3}[source]
In what part of the video? The top?

The bottom is definitely covered with repeating non-letter shapes.

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5. jibbers ◴[] No.36209394{4}[source]
In all parts. The center is has the biggest text. If it helps think of it this way: you're looking through a black fence at something colorful on the other side.

Edit: You're right, the text is only in the middle and next largest "fold." The rest is, spoiler, alien face glyphs.

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6. WinstonSmith84 ◴[] No.36209413[source]
I've not been able to figure much in the first and second video, but in the third I think it's written "XXXXXX IS THE GATE"

edit: the first word could be like INVERSE. Not 100% sure

7. stavros ◴[] No.36209518{3}[source]
Ahh yes, you're right! The expanding circles show the text, it's just disappearing too quickly after. I imagine that, if you're on acid, the afterimage is strong enough to read the message clearly.
8. nine_k ◴[] No.36209560{5}[source]
Confirmed! The letters are easy to read once you know where to look.

Indeed the regular pattern can be seen as alien faces. But they are so close by that to me the slanted "eyes" and the cup-like "chins" more readily form plant shapes, with pairs of "leaves" and "flowers" above them instead.

9. a1369209993 ◴[] No.36209636[source]
> The third one contains letters in the vertical columns.

(The text is stationary; if it were moving, that would make the following fiddly and annoying, but not genuinely difficult. So it would provide the illusion of security, but no actual security. For this (kind of) reason, "psycrypto" strikes me as a rather bad idea.)

I transcoded the video to gif with:

  ffmpeg -i ZNpfcfHwdhA.mp4 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 6 ZNpfcfHwdhA.gif
then opened it in GIMP and copy-pasted various frames to a new image as layers with additive blending (Layers window > "Mode:" > "Addition") until legibility (somewhat) ensued.

The text says "UNIVERSE IS THE GATE" in a obnoxious ultra-stencil font.

10. Retr0id ◴[] No.36209687[source]
The repeated pattern in the first one is the classic "alien head", like the emoji: (which I pasted here but I assume HN will strip it out...)

Edit: The emoji was indeed stripped. This one https://emojipedia.org/alien/

11. thumbuddy ◴[] No.36211066{3}[source]
Ding ding ding. Loving you