The code is cracked.
Sep. 3rd, 2007 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spacemonkeyluvnOkay, it was cracked a couple weeks ago. But still, it's been a year since it started. I went to the ZeroOne festival of digital art in San Jose back in 2006 and I remember seeing those lights. In fact, I saw them today and they're still flashing away. I just don't know if it's being repeated or it's a new puzzle.
Two technology workers have solved the puzzle presented by rotating lights high atop the Adobe Systems Inc. headquarters in San Jose... the code crackers, a computer science engineer named Bob Mayo and an engineer named Mark Snesrud.
The story from the San Jose Mercury News
This article has the 18-page PDF file explanation of how the two figured it out
The puzzle's website (has video of the moving lights)
SEMAPHORE: a visual apparatus for communicating messages over distance.
San Jose Semaphore, by artist Ben Rubin, is a permanent public artwork commissioned by Adobe Systems Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affair’s Public Art Program.
Located within the top floors of Adobe’s Almaden Tower headquarters in San Jose, California, San Jose Semaphore is a multi-sensory kinetic artwork that illuminates the San Jose skyline with the transmission of a coded message. The content of the San Jose Semaphore’s message is a mystery; cracking the encryption technique and deciphering the message is posed as a challenge for the public. To the first person or group to successfully crack the code, Adobe will award bragging rights and acknowledgment on both the Adobe website (www.adobe.com) and the San Jose Semaphore website.
Two technology workers have solved the puzzle presented by rotating lights high atop the Adobe Systems Inc. headquarters in San Jose... the code crackers, a computer science engineer named Bob Mayo and an engineer named Mark Snesrud.
The story from the San Jose Mercury News
This article has the 18-page PDF file explanation of how the two figured it out
The puzzle's website (has video of the moving lights)
SEMAPHORE: a visual apparatus for communicating messages over distance.
San Jose Semaphore, by artist Ben Rubin, is a permanent public artwork commissioned by Adobe Systems Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affair’s Public Art Program.
Located within the top floors of Adobe’s Almaden Tower headquarters in San Jose, California, San Jose Semaphore is a multi-sensory kinetic artwork that illuminates the San Jose skyline with the transmission of a coded message. The content of the San Jose Semaphore’s message is a mystery; cracking the encryption technique and deciphering the message is posed as a challenge for the public. To the first person or group to successfully crack the code, Adobe will award bragging rights and acknowledgment on both the Adobe website (www.adobe.com) and the San Jose Semaphore website.
