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Someone Finally Cracked The “Silk Dress Cryptogram” After 10 Years

What does "Bismarck Omit leafage buck bank" mean to you?
In December 2013, a curator and archaeologist purchased an antique silk dress with an unusual feature: a hidden pocket that held two sheets of paper with mysterious coded text written on them. People have been trying to crack the code ever since, and someone finally succeeded: University of Manitoba data analyst Wayne Chan. He discovered that the text is actually coded telegraph messages describing the weather used by the US Army and (later) the weather bureau. Chan outlined all the details of his decryption in a paper published in the journal Cryptologia.

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191 sats \ 7 replies \ @kr 31 Jan
i can’t be the only one who thought this post was going to have something to do with this dress
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I'm starting to worry :) The question is between blue and black, or white and gold, and I see blue and gold.

Scientific explanations

Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance ... but I've studied individual differences in colour vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences I've ever seen.
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66 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 31 Jan
😂
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That's not funny 😂
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I see it as blue and gold
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 31 Jan
i see black and blue 🤔
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That's exactly what I thought it was about
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Olá @ekzyis, is this post not refundable ?
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Your meme game is strong and sorry for the delay. I swear I didn't generate yield with your sats before refunding you :)
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