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I'd be curious to hear any real-life stories behind slide #3 ("Patterns in shoelaces can carry messages"). Do they mean can as in theoretically? Because I coul
by brown9-2 17y ago
I'd be curious to hear any real-life stories behind slide #3 ("Patterns in shoelaces can carry messages").
Do they mean can as in theoretically? Because I could also theoretically carry a message based on myriad other things as well.
Seems like you'd have to get really, really close to a person to be able to read their shoelaces for the patterns in the second and third images.
- chrischen 17y agoThey might just be patterns for predetermined messages. So they are probably very distinct patterns.
- chronomex 17y agoMy shoelaces cross over each other four times in each shoe. Using the different directions of crossing, that's eight undetectable bits. You can do a lot with eight bits.
- StrawberryFrog 17y agoBut read subltle differences in shoe-lace patterns after a glance and cross-reference with the list of meanings? Hard. They'd just look like a mess to me. I suspect that the most you can get out of it reliably is about 2 bits, so four signals, including one zero state meaning "no message".
- chrischen 17y agoThat's what training is for. To the untrained eye it may seem hard to distinguish.