Recognize any of these?

[GSG9]

:D yw.
now i wanna find out the answer

[Disco_Whore]

No suggestions for your puzzle...but man would it ever be cool to have a visual search function in google, where instead of searching for words you could search for images based on shapes, colours, proportions, etc.

That would be so handy, especially since people always label images differently.

[omega_image]

Originally Posted by yoko*

Here's a ridiculous suggestion for you.

I suggest that the first image is a construction, using the last two images to create it. I even drew on the pictures to make my case (attached below)


A) The statue-like black image in the first image was cropped from the circled portion of the man's nectie in the second image, you can see an elbow-like curve in the man's nectie in the second image. They aren't exact matches in shape, but easily the images can be distorted.

B)The egg-like shape on which the "Statue" stands can be recreated from the back of the man's suit in the second picture. The colors are similar and the cropped image can be made to look more spherical.

C)The texture of the building could have been taken from the woolen sweater of the man in the office and tiled or repeated, enhanced. Again, similar color.

D)The shape of the side of the building could have been taken from the base of the house in the third picture and then adjusted for color and shape.

E)The texture of the sky and the color could have been taken form the rooftop of the house in the third picture. They are roughly same in color and certain textures actually are almost a match (eye-balling it)

F)The white blotch (the width and texture) seems to overlap with the woman's (the woman who is turning her head)white dress shirt (second picture).

G) The black blotch may be the hair of the woman who is turning around or the other potential "G", the man with the woolen shirt.

H)The weird white portion on the building seems to exactly match the texture of part of the rooftop in the third picture.

hee-haw.

quite possibly the greatest analysis I've ever read =)

[GSG9]

Originally Posted by Disco_Whore

No suggestions for your puzzle...but man would it ever be cool to have a visual search function in google, where instead of searching for words you could search for images based on shapes, colours, proportions, etc.

That would be so handy, especially since people always label images differently.

dude sit down, your fuckin baaaked.

interesting idea though. ill bet it could happen sometime in the next 10 years.

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by omega_image

quite possibly the greatest analysis I've ever read =)

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by GSG9

Yoko, you should work for the CIA or somethin.

"somethin" = wum

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by omega_image

quite possibly the greatest analysis I've ever read =)

Really? I thought it was some deranged, OCD bullshit.

I stopped looking after A and B because the works is obviously a figment of an overactive imagination with too much time on its hands.

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by Grapes

"somethin" = wum

I should work for the wum? I don't get it.

And what's with the hostility?

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Really? I thought it was some deranged, OCD bullshit.

I stopped looking after A and B because the works is obviously a figment of an overactive imagination with too much time on its hands.

That's cool if you don't agree, it is an overanalysis.. but I'm sensing hostitlity, what's up with that?

[Disco_Whore]

Originally Posted by GSG9

dude sit down, your fuckin baaaked.

interesting idea though. ill bet it could happen sometime in the next 10 years.

I don't smoke pot.

And it's NOT that crazy of a concept really, we hardly use the internet to its fullest potential. Right now it is generally a glorified form of traditional text, with the odd annoying flash/video clip (not to mention tons of porn).

I have to create a website as part of my microhistory course, and my prof is encouraging us to do better than most other academic websites already out there.

(Example: instead of slapping a paper online with the odd picture and link, make it so that every citation is accessible in its original context without having to scroll down to the footnotes/endnotes. That way the person reading it can choose to continue reading, or stop to do their own research and prove you wrong, or build on your thesis and what have you.)

So why stop there? There's tons that can be improved in the online world.

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by yoko*

That's cool if you don't agree, it is an overanalysis.. but I'm sensing hostitlity, what's up with that?

I don't like it when people gush out praise when it's not warranted. The hostility is as much about some of the other peoples' lack of critical thinking than it is about anything you did.

Put it this way, your analysis reminded me of this:

Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Now if a bunch of people came up to that guy and went "Wow, your analysis of that menu was AWESOME MAN! GOOD JOB!!!", I'd tee off on them too.

No it wasn't. It's a fucking menu at a cheap ass burrito store. Analyzing it to that extent isn't "finding meaning", it's just, well, "some deranged OCD bullshit".

Playing Devil's advocate, calling a spade a spade, trying to shake people up a bit... pick your cliche. That's how I'd explain the hostility, although I doubt any of that is going to make me your best friend.

As for the too much time on your hands comment.. well.... how long DID you stare at those photos???

[omega_image]

^google photosynth. It's going to happen some day

[Disco_Whore]

^Apparently the preview only runs for vista or xp, those bastards!

But thanks :)

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by Grapes

I don't like it when people gush out praise when it's not warranted. The hostility is as much about some of the other peoples' lack of critical thinking than it is about anything you did.

Put it this way, your analysis reminded me of this:

Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Now if a bunch of people came up to that guy and went "Wow, your analysis of that menu was AWESOME MAN! GOOD JOB!!!", I'd tee off on them too.

No it wasn't. It's a fucking menu at a cheap ass burrito store. Analyzing it to that extent isn't "finding meaning", it's just, well, "some deranged OCD bullshit".

Playing Devil's advocate, calling a spade a spade, trying to shake people up a bit... pick your cliche. That's how I'd explain the hostility, although I doubt any of that is going to make me your best friend.

As for the too much time on your hands comment.. well.... how long DID you stare at those photos???

Lol. Actually, having to "play devil's advocate" is an over analysis of my posts on your part. You make it sound like people on fnk need to be "enlightened" of their stupdity by you. Despite what you may think of yourself, no one needs to be saved here by you:

The hostility is as much about some of the other peoples' lack of critical thinking than it is about anything you did.

You might be thinking that you're deviating against the norm or something, but you're not being particularly innovative yousrelf by "playing devil's advocate". Who on fnk doesn't play that game?

It should be pretty damn obvious by now that criticising OTHERS is the easy part. Anyone can do it, and an intelligent person can easily do it without resorting to accusing someone of having "OCD" or having "too much time on their hands" (though I do in fact, as I am on reading break, hehe).

So instead of wasting your time trying to elevate your own self-esteem by criticising my harmless suggestion, why don't you step it up a notch and propose your own alternate theory?. While you hurl out insults I was only trying to help the thread starter. What exactly are you trying contribute?

[Grapes]

My theory? My theory is they're a couple of random, meaningless pictures.

Not very exciting, but realism is a bitch.