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What: Contraption Maker Giveaway, Who: Anyone with experience with programming/coding or CTRL:C&V

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MDuh

What to do

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1) Get the required data:

RED: http://puu.sh/5bJOq.txt
GREEN: http://puu.sh/5bJQQ.txt
BLUE: http://puu.sh/5bJT6.txt

2) Create a PPM file using those data

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Specification of PPM File:

P3
Width: 887
Height: 293
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PPM Image format specs

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3) View the PPM Image and get the giveaway link

Reward: Contraption Maker
Giveaway Duration: 1 week

11 years ago*

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aforce273

Bump for solved. That was fun and it refreshed a bit of my programming skills.

11 years ago
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trinner

what is this? i have experience with ctrl+c/v and vba-coding, but i do not understand. ppm-file? :)

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aforce273

I had never heard of PPM either. Just read the specs - that was enough for me to piece everything together.

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madjoki

Bump for solved

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ozo2003

programming rullz :)

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Sinovera

WHOOSH.

^ The sound of everything in this thread flying so far over my head... :D

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MrD

Bump for bumps.

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abcxyz91

Cogs in my head can not keep up with this :( Thanks anyway ^^

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oilegor

solved!

11 years ago
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fiftydkpminus

Here's an online converter that will convert your finished PPM into a PNG in case you don't have a program installed that can show PPMs.

Converter

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MDuh

or irfanview

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Lense

You gave way too much information...
I already won Contraption Maker but I'll do the puzzle in a few hours.
P[PGB]Ms are so much fun

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MDuh

Next time I'll do harder ones that needs manipulation. Just created a very easy one to see how many here on SG are competent enough to know simple I/O in programming.

If you want, you can suggest me some nifty puzzle ideas once you have created the ppm.

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Lense

Bump for solved.
I did this in 6 short commands in a bash shell, and 3 of them were downloading the files.

11 years ago
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qetc

too much programming to not do for school to not program for a gibwai

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MDuh

are u kidding me. This is like 15min of coding. Or less.

Basic I/O on files. No need for complex manipulation of pixels

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ozo2003

15? what would you need 15 minutes for? o.O

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MDuh

reading ppm specification or some shit

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Soluna

Not programming student. Nuuuuuuuuuuu D:

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Jaex

I think i have problem understanding ppm format because got this result: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14076298/ShareX/2013/11/ObflaWFb9H.png

But still result looks interesting :P

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MDuh

Something is definitely wrong there. Are you sorting the data? that's my first assumption upon seeing the result image

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Jaex

What you mean sorting?

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MDuh

your sorting the pixels. From the looks of it, the color of the pixels are correct but it seem to have a pattern that resembles being sorted

11 years ago
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Jaex

Edit: Problem solved. Thanks for puzzle!

Normally i can't solve any puzzle in steamgifts finally managed to solve one :P

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Nudiustertian

Nice moiré. Saved for desktop. :-)

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MDuh

bumpup

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MercuryHunter

Leaving home now, will attempt on return :D

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pentaerythritol

Bump for solved.

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whitdemon

I dont see how this GA is worth the trouble... GL everyone

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Eisenzange

Bump for solved. :3

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fiftydkpminus

Method takes about 8 lines of code in Java.

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misterhaan

heh, i did it in 8 lines in c#

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DarkDaskin

Did it in 8 lines on C# too.
It would take more time to launch Visual Studio and create a new project than actually coding, so I just used LINQPad.

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knsys

Bump for solved

11 years ago
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worf

Solved with Excel, notepad and photoshop :p

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MDuh

yep, that's why i added ctrl+c and v

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Nudiustertian

Respect.

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GuySubstan

Awesome way of creating giveaway.. GOOD JOB brah (y)

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Tonyturismo

Programming is for cigarettes, real men steal all their code from other people.

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mkrnic

Is there anyone who did it in 1 line in Perl?

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MDuh

bump

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MDuh

mre

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MDuh

asd

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adeyke

That was fun.

It would have been easy to write something to solve it properly, but I decided to see if just using one color's data (i.e. PGM instead of PPM) would be enough to solve it, and it turns out it was. If the letters had been made invisible to different colors, this shortcut wouldn't have been possible.

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Closed 11 years ago by MDuh.