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[Witis]

The error is not in the binary, the error is in the description I gave, but it doesn't matter.

Nope, you said "I also see that there are some extra red bricks in the upper left corner of that picture, which are now covered by a raised bed, but would throw off the pattern in the picture". Which means that some of the binary encoded characters are no longer readable due to the placement of the extra red bricks and that generates a very obvious red coloured error that partially or entirely destroys the meaning of the message i.e. you confessed to vandalizing your own binary backyard. °o°

According to rule #2, you ignore all red bricks when reading the pattern.

You only made those rules yesterday in an attempt to cover up your furtive backyard behaviours, and, as there is no way anyone else could possibly know them, said rules clearly cannot be taken seriously, or into account, when discussing the issue.

The only thing that the red bricks can do is give you some hint as to which direction to read and possibly where to start reading, though they don't really do that. They are only a hint, though, and there is no absolute rule regarding the red bricks. While it is true that every eigth brick is red, that doesn't mean that every red brick is an eigth brick.

Every red brick was a delimiter separating each binary encoded character until, sadly, you put a red line through your message. :L

It did get me thinking, though.

That wasn't my intention.

If you were to read the patter E-W or W-E rather than N-S, it would have no meaning. You have to read the patter N-S, but had I written a palindrome, and if you were to swap the endian nature of the bytes, you could read the pattern S-N, as well. I didn't write a palindrome, as there are few with meaning of the size I needed (maybe none). However, would it be possible to have created a pattern such that it would have one meaning when read N-S, and another meaning when read E-W? I believe that would not be possible without a much more liberal use of red bricks, but if I were to add a third rule:

3) Red bricks should be ignored.

No need for a third rule, you already invented that one yesterday.

then I think it would have been technically possible to encode a message both N-S as well as E-W, though without the red brick hints, it is unlikely that anybody would ever have known that there was a pattern, let alone been able to read it.

The obvious problem is that without knowing your rules there is no way anyone would ever be able to decipher the binary encoded characters. Worse is that the use of tri-coloured tiles, and sometimes it looks like more colours due to the different shades of tan and grey, makes it look like anything other than a binary pattern.

I also think that the character count in either direction would be radically reduced due to the need to use LOTS of red bricks in the pattern. Still, this would be an interesting excercise for a much larger area than the one I had. It would be a largely red pattern, but it would appear highly random.

I am still not convinced that it would look like anything other than a game of tetris.