Just brainstorming...
I think the beginning is the key to the rest - it's some sort of encoding. KZY is an end-of-line or end-of-segment marker. T is a counter/tic mark. It starts out with 16 incrementing segments, so we could assign values to each - g=0, a=1, d=2...r=14/E, b=15/F. 16 is an interesting number. Maybe it's musical - notes covering two octaves? Or 16 colors? If I knew how to translate the characters to colors...
r/14/E seems to enclose the entire puzzle - most of the first line (once you remove the leading key), the beginning and end of each line (ignoring the end-of-segment kzy), the last line...
If you convert the given letters into their hex equivalents, you can see that each line *tends* to go up and down fairly smoothly - EED86887444420011223322333334455556655544433111222 223344555678888888889A99AFCCCF9ACCCCDEEE
with some overhead at the beginning. Each line is similar to the preceding line, with a few changes, which is why it looks like a picture. So it seems that each line has progression from left to right (or right to left!), and there is also progression from line to line.
The reference to the spacecraft plaques makes me think there is some fundamental/elemental data encoded here, but I don't know what category. I don't think it's DNA, as that's only 4 characters - AGCT.
I haven't done a character frequency analysis of the 16 values yet to see if anything jumps out.
Oops, I see Duty had the same thought...
I think the beginning is the key to the rest - it's some sort of encoding. KZY is an end-of-line or end-of-segment marker. T is a counter/tic mark. It starts out with 16 incrementing segments, so we could assign values to each - g=0, a=1, d=2...r=14/E, b=15/F. 16 is an interesting number. Maybe it's musical - notes covering two octaves? Or 16 colors? If I knew how to translate the characters to colors...
r/14/E seems to enclose the entire puzzle - most of the first line (once you remove the leading key), the beginning and end of each line (ignoring the end-of-segment kzy), the last line...
If you convert the given letters into their hex equivalents, you can see that each line *tends* to go up and down fairly smoothly - EED86887444420011223322333334455556655544433111222 223344555678888888889A99AFCCCF9ACCCCDEEE
with some overhead at the beginning. Each line is similar to the preceding line, with a few changes, which is why it looks like a picture. So it seems that each line has progression from left to right (or right to left!), and there is also progression from line to line.
The reference to the spacecraft plaques makes me think there is some fundamental/elemental data encoded here, but I don't know what category. I don't think it's DNA, as that's only 4 characters - AGCT.
I haven't done a character frequency analysis of the 16 values yet to see if anything jumps out.
Oops, I see Duty had the same thought...
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