I may be a very poor unemployed graphic designer, and admittedly it was a drunk miner who suggested using a laser scanner and retail barcodes, but we need someone who stacks shelves at Walmart now to help read these barcodes...
Barcodes. Hmm. Very cute FD.
http://carbryck.com/EDSCREENS/4_Signal_Component_Sets.jpg
These are the component sets that I chose to turn into what hopefully resemble retail barcodes, enough that someone who works in retail with moderate experience and an acuity for numbers should not have too much trouble decoding them.
These codes use 6 individual bars of varying weights. Light. Medium. Heavy. Very Heavy. Double Light, and Double light long.
These have been directly translated from what I called Short Top. Tall Bar. Wide Bottom Bar. Big Bar. Slim Double Bar and Deep Slim Double Bar, respectively.
I have tried to incorporate spacing to be proportionate with the original spacing in the spectragraphs, and still look a bit like what I expect a retail barcode should look like. But it was mainly guesswork. If there is any error in reading, it may be this.
Hopefully if the supermarket attendant is suitably numerate, they may be able to error check based on their experience...
I don't know for sure if this is the correct assumption, and this of couse is only a small sample of what could potentially be an unlimited number of numbers, due to it's randomly inserted nature. I would hazard a guess though, that if we recognise these sample numbers from the retailesque barcodes, then that's half the mystery solved. We shouldn't need to examine too many more component sets to find some kind of order from them. If it is prime numbers, then it may well be the case that these ancient aliens were not just intelligent, but also had a civilisation and culture based on consumerism, similar to our own...
http://carbryck.com/EDSCREENS/BARCODES.jpg
- Si