On top of an easter egg they could use those things for more complex information and actual in game stuff to decipher. If they preplanned stuff enough. It could have more codes in more situations later with different codes or decipher methods. And/or lead to other puzzles.
What if there is more than one answer to the puzzle?
The RGB color values can be calculated. With color palette and converter.
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If it also represents 32bit qaud 256bit color data it could lead to some other data form. They use colors a lot. Or at least it could explain their communication protocols a bit. Maybe it would explain why they flash certain colors. Or if enough exist make an image or something else.
Does anyone know of any 32 bit as opposed to 24 bit color methods used in computers. Or of any translators like the above for 4 values instead of 3?
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/72mbl0/thargoid_code_decrypting_megathread/
I'm reading this currently. I know it has the easter egg for oct and the manual reference. But I still don't see why there isn't more to get out of it potentially. It too conveniently fits other things also.
Does anything else in game in any way use a similar color scheme? There are lots of color grids used in the BGS data for stations and whatnot. Or any part of the graphics even. Star data? Anything could be a hint potentially. It's possible while going over what to use to make them game they used some of those things as inspiration for the aliens tech and puzzles. It's an easy way to make puzzles.
The fact they leave out so many numbers could be a hint they are using a multi method of layering data and needed to remove numbers to fit multiple data sets at once.
Oddly enough I found this for the term multi method:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimethodology
Came out around the time of the game. Don't know the specific methods it would be referring too, but it could be a cultural thing and have some influence directly or indirectly in one way or the other.
Source: https://youtu.be/6RT2cyYAHvI?t=194
Plus if it's related to this 9 base then you could have the same 3x3 data set being colors in a 9 base number system which fits it also. It could be qaud 256 and 9 base or oct with null color references seperately or simultaneously.
It would be fitting if it used the in game color scheme data or similar in some way.
I'm not familiar with 32 bit. I know it uses white or something non RGB as the 4th data set or something. White one some level. Is it just greyscale mixed in? Not sure how that would be used or how it's normally used/organized to test it easily. Let alone if they use it in a different manner.
