Programming 2

[kirgy9]

Ive successfuly made a program that reads the image, determines the difference between white pixels and outputs the morse code, its written in vb 2008 (Im new to C, so im going back to my roots). The problem im geting is im geting the string like this:

.-,.-,. -.-.-.- ---. ,--. ----., .,.--,

The problem which REALLY confused me is why are there 4 different types of charactors?? Any ideas?

I gathered the reason commas were present were because of an offset, I would move the offset but then there is a problem with spaces...making them a ! charactor.

Can anyone give me some pointers on what im doing fundementaly wrong?

[aNewHobby4me]

.-,.-,. -.-.-.- ---. ,--. ----., .,.--,

The problem which REALLY confused me is why are there 4 different types of charactors?? Any ideas?

Can anyone give me some pointers on what im doing fundementaly wrong?

The devil is is in the details, or so they say. You seem to have an 'off by one' error. (44, ',') (45, '-') (46, '.') I had the same problem--my dots came out dashes, and my dashes came out commas.

[Bitbored]

I made a VB.net application that loads in the image after I drop it into a folder on my desktop, reads it out using GetPixel, translates the Morse and tells me the result, it is a simple string with random letters AND numbers, apparently it's wrong, since after I click submit, it sais Sorry: Your answer is wrong...

I guess it isn't a bug in my application, since then it wouldn't create a nice string, but give loads of errors.

Can I post my code here?
Should the letters be Capitals are lower?
How many characters should the code count?

[FR34K]

Im so proud this is the first one I did without stealing any code off google (i took the guts of the irc bot from an already existing bot that greets people when the join)

I am using these HTS challenges to teach myself C# and this one taught me so much

Tips for others:
Take it one piece at a time, you need:
1 part to "look" at the image
1 part to convert the image to code
1 part to decypher the code
and a final part to echo the code back

Hope that isnt to much (its another way of stating the instructions in easier terms i hope)

[prizzy]

Im so proud this is the first one I did without stealing any code off google (i took the guts of the irc bot from an already existing bot that greets people when the join)

I am using these HTS challenges to teach myself C# and this one taught me so much

Tips for others:
Take it one piece at a time, you need:
1 part to "look" at the image
1 part to convert the image to code
1 part to decypher the code
and a final part to echo the code back

Hope that isnt to much (its another way of stating the instructions in easier terms i hope)

I am doing the same exact thing. How did you breakdown the picture? Some conversion to an array, or GetPixel?

I haven't found a good way at all. I can use GetPixel, but it's pretty drawn out. And using this:

public byte[] imageToByteArray(System.Drawing.Image imageIn)
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
imageIn.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
return ms.ToArray();
}
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap("PNG_white.png");
byte[] myArray = imageToByteArray(bitmap);

Returns an array with 3600 entries and it doesn't make sense.

[QtDevl]

Bitmap myBitmap = new Bitmap("image.png");
...
Color pixelColor = myBitmap.GetPixel(x, y);

From here it's easy to loop through all x and y isn't it

PS: don't worry about numbers it gives you,do a basic test and print every pixel and see values..you should see only two of them...one is black the other one should be the white one
otherwise you can do : if(pixelColor == Color.White) do stuff

[tostbrot21]

Hey Guys, had the same problem, you have to decrypt the morse string too, e.g. http://alldownunder.com/australian-convert/morse-code-conversion.htm

[synstealth]

Hey I seem to have some trouble decoding the png file since it is dynamically created from /prog/2/PNG/index.php file so I wrote a php script using cURL with GD, it appears to grab the image successfully but my code cannot read it properly, am I doing something wrong, here's my snippet and hope anyone can help and catch what I am doing here.


the first part is to grab the image, the second part is to decode

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<?

$source = 'http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/2/PNG/';

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $source);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$fp = fopen('dots.png', "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
fclose($fp);

$imgFile =  'dots.png';
$im = imagecreatefrompng($imgFile);
imagepng($im,$imgFile);

$imgWidth = imagesx($im);
$imgHeight = imagesy($im);


$res='';
for ($y=0; $y < $imgHeight; $y++){
   for ($x=0; $x < $imgWidth; $x++){
   
      $ndx = imagecolorat($im,$x,$y);
      $aryColors = imagecolorsforindex($im,$ndx);
      
      print substr("R".dechex($aryColors['red']),-2);
      print substr("G".dechex($aryColors['green']),-2);
      print substr("B".dechex($aryColors['blue']),-2);
   
         
   }
}



[wan26]

To break down the picture i chose the cimg library and converted it to txt, so i could see in the file what was being changed each time;

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void convertimg(){
CImg<unsigned short> img("PNG.png");
    img.save_ascii("hi5.txt"); // HTS PROG MISSION 2

}


[Wasp256]

Hi, could anybody please check if I receive the right code for the image
http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/2/PNG

I receive the code: D8WC3D5KKP