[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

I thought the numbers might be coordinates. Here they are plotted on a 2d version.

http://i.imgur.com/r4ovM9b.png

[John Sabath]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

I thought the numbers might be coordinates. Here they are plotted on a 2d version.

Originally Posted by 4404 PCH Colts

Also, did anyone have any speculation as to why the photo from the Nov 25 blog showed the water bottles? They seemed so arbitrarily yet intentionally placed.

Coincidence?

Originally Posted by John Sabath

Coincidence?

This is one of the more legitimate things I've seen.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

This is one of the more legitimate things I've seen.

Those water bottles do seem to be the only thing in the photo that could have been made to..."hold"...data.

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

This is one of the more legitimate things I've seen.

No, look at the axis labels. That's the first thought to pop into your head, but the scales are off.

Originally Posted by davidthefat

No, look at the axis labels. That's the first thought to pop into your head, but the scales are off.

Maybe they did the same thing as Rangel did.

[RoundTabler]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

No, look at the axis labels. That's the first thought to pop into your head, but the scales are off.

Are they off by a factor of 4.64 or 7.90 or 3.94?

[Sean Raia]

Well I tried to sketch the shape the bottles make, and it's close but it COULD just be a coincidence. After that, I rotated the image so that the shape matched the graph that somebody posted earlier (page 5?) Then I looked at the image for what seemed to be revealed by the rotation/mirroring and I found something interesting. What picture is this back there and are those two 3's?

[RobotDoktor]

Originally Posted by Sean Raia

Well I tried to sketch the shape the bottles make, and it's close but it COULD just be a coincidence. After that, I rotated the image so that the shape matched the graph that somebody posted earlier (page 5?) Then I looked at the image for what seemed to be revealed by the rotation/mirroring and I found something interesting. What picture is this and are those two 3's?

Very interesting. I thought the all the threes were a coincidence (especially since there were many threes found in last years hint), but one of those threes looks an awful lot like it was edited in, as it appears to overlap the green screen which should be in front of it.

[mhos1997]

Originally Posted by RobotDoktor

Very interesting. I thought the all the threes were a coincidence (especially since there were many threes found in last years hint), but one of those threes looks an awful lot like it was edited in, as it appears to overlap the green screen which should be in front of it.

The top one like either like a 4 or a triangle. Triangle seems more plausible, therefore leading to 3 of something.

[Sean Raia]

That looks like a ledge of some sort... and I agree that the top number appears to be 4. It wasn't edited in though, that bleeding in is just a result of modern photography.

[RobotDoktor]

Actually, looking at the original it is more likely to be a two with the bottom cut off.

[Orion.DeYoe]

Has anyone noticed the trends in the numbers? The numerator of each term increases as you go left to right (8234<61126<62326). The denominators are the same way (57<1963<15806) except that they increase at a greater rate compared to the numerators. This causes the quotient of the fractions to increase left to right as well (~144.46<~31.14<~3.94). They're not linear, but I wonder if this has some significance.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Sean Raia

That looks like a ledge of some sort... and I agree that the top number appears to be 4. It wasn't edited in though, that bleeding in is just a result of modern photography.

If kickoff wasn't filmed at FIRST HQ and was filmed at an actual production studio with soundstages, that's probably a sign showing that they were currently on soundstage/greenscreen/production area/whatever #3.

[RoundTabler]

Having been to FIRST HQ, I can tell you I don't remember any floors like that (I could be wrong however). :/

That said, I really like the idea that these numbers mean something in RGB.