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This blog is a personal examination of the "Pizza Code Mystery" ARG created by Christopher Horn for the Black Mesa video game.
I will attempt to update this blog on a regular basis, for as long as the ARG is in existence and folks are willing to attempt to solve it.
This will not be a complete overview of the clues and such associated with the ARG--you can find a complete, up-to-date version of that material here.


Thursday, April 11, 2013

Examination of the Hex Code

Long time no see, folks!

I've been reviewing the hex code and attempting to view it from all angles.  Something I attempted was to convert the hexadecimal code into binary.  I used this converter here:  Hex to Binary Tool

The end result is as follows:

10110011001010110000000000111010
00000011010110111010110111010110
00000110010101110111110000100100
00001100000101001111110010010001
00001001000001100100001101000110
00001101000100110001101001111100
00000101010010111011100000101111
00001111111000000011111000000010
00000010011000010101011101110111
00000010010001111001001000111101
00001100001000011111011000101100
00001101010000011000001011101001
00000001110000111011001001100111
00001011010101000101101010111100
00001010111011011010111100000010
00000110000101010001000011010100
00001110111010100001111010000111
11001101001100111100011111000111
00000000011100010011000100110000
00001001110011000100001010000000
00001110101101000010010000111101
00000001000101010100111100000100
00000100111110011100111101100010
00001001011011011001101111111111
00000111001110010111111001000011
10010000100110000111111111100110
00000011001000000011110110100000
00000000110111100100000000100111
00001000101100111010010101001111
00000101110111011100011010010111
00000101111110100000010011110111
00000100100110000100100111100001
00001010011000100101100101011010
10011111011000110000101100000111
00001001010110010001001111011110
00000000000101010011111000111010
00000000101011000011100010001100
00000100010111111011100111011000
00000101000011001111111010010001
00000011010101000001110101101100
00000000100000111001100011110010
11001000100000110011001010101000
00000010111111011111000000000010
00001000000111010110001011111100
00001101110001001111111001111110
00000000010001101010111010010000
00001100010100011100010111001000
00000000011010110100000100010110
00000100111000110011101010111001
00101100100101101000011000101110
00000000011010001011000011000001
00000110110000001001100110010000
00001011100000111000000110100000
00000000110110100111100100010101
00000000101101100111111111100100
00001010001000001111010110011001
00001011000011110001101101101101
01001000000110010001001111000111
00001011100101010011100011001110
00001110011000111001000101000100
00001111010000010101011000011011
00001010100100101110010011111110
00000111010100011101000111100010
00000000010000101100110110001000
00001111010100011101011010010101
01010001100110001000011100010011
00000110101001111100000101011010
00001010101111010111101101000000
00000000010001001001001000100000
00000001010000010011000010101001
00000001111100010111000011110110
00000110110011001011001111000001
00000000001110010100011000111010
01111110100100001001101000110111
00001010101010000110001111111011
00000010011110000000010111111100
00001001011100110001110000001001
00001100100011000111100100000110
00000111111001111001100100110000
00001010010000000110010101000110
00001011001001001100100110100110
00000010100110110010011011000010
00001100111000101010010010111110
00000100100011110101100010011010
00000011011101011111111010110111
00000011000111111100010010101011
00000010001001011100000100011000
00000100100011001111100010011110
00000010100100011111101100100111
00000001001100111001011100001100
00000110001101100001100001000111
00000000010010101000100100101000
00000000000111101101110101101000
00001111010101000110100110001100
00000101111001011011010100000110
00000111010001101111011001110110
00000101101001101111011111110001
00000010001001011101111010100100
11011010000100010100000011111110
00001011011000001111011001010000
00000000011101000101001001000001
00001100011010010011011010010101
00001000100000111101110010110010
00000001111001101111101111111110
00001111101110111000010110100010
00001001100100011001010010000000
00110110101001010010101101011101
00000000

After doing so, it appeared as though there was a consistent pattern throughout the binary, so I then attempted to convert it to an image.  I constructed a .txt document from the binary and utilized this Binary to Image Tool--using 32 blocks per line.

The resulting image:



Now, there's always the chance that the hex to binary conversion failed, or that the binary to image conversion failed, or both, and that this is simply a random pattern generated by that failure.  However, if it's not an error, then this may potentially lead to something.

But what?  *shrug*

1 comment:

  1. I have a feeling this was more or less debunked in the ARG thread on the forums, but for what it's worth:

    http://i.imgur.com/6ln7U43.png
    Using a length of 34 blocks results in the dark lines aligning to the right side.

    http://i.imgur.com/EKoLrIS.png
    Using a contrast of 1 results in a seemingly random set of black blocks.

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