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I didn't, really. It's just all there was.

Just all there was, you mean you didn't set out to make your backyard into an homage to the colour red?

That would have worked to some extent. It doesn't allow you to determine the start and end of the message because you wouldn't be able to determine whether to read N-S, or E-W without trial and error, though you'd be able to make a very good guess IF the message left significant numbers of bits at the end.

Excatly.

Still, I wanted the red in there for aesthetic reasons, as mentioned earlier.

Yes you must like the colour red, a lot.

After all, the real point of the excersize was to not have to mow as much grass, and to have a nice patio in my back yard. The binary pattern was just an easter egg.

How many folks have discovered and deciphered your egg thus far?

Historically, the byte may have been the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer, but also historically: There was no rule that a byte had to be 8 bits. Other size bytes have been used on various old systems. The 8-bit byte is nice because it's a power of 2, but a seven bit byte is more compact and does the job just as well, while a 9 bit byte allows for error checking built into the byte. So, both have been used at times.

But everyone knows it is eight bit binary which is most likely to hold characters. 8D

True. That is the main role, but not the ONLY role.

At last Shaggy agrees that the red tiles are the delimiter!

The message is still there and is not destroyed.

How can that be when you added some extra red tiles to throw a visual error and interfere with or destroy the meaning in the message?

I already stated the only rules needed to read it.

Do you mean the rules that you invented a couple of days ago to cover up your anti-binary behaviours, and that can't be deduced by anyone looking at the message?

Got it wrong, once again.

Nah, the main role of the red tiles is to act as a character delimiter, you just agreed a second ago in your post.

The equals sign is usually reversible. If A = B then B = A, and that is not the case here. Character delimiter = Red, but Red != character delimiter. So, the equals sign is a poor choice, and you wrote it backwards anyways. I've stated it correctly at least four times, including the text you quoted, and you STILL got it wrong. That's what the whole thing has been about. You stubbornly ignore what I'm actually saying in favor of a slight, but fallatious, misconstruction. Get that piece sorted in your own head and you will see that the pattern is not flawed.

No, I have established that the red tiles are the delimiter but you have still not clarified the role of the extra red tiles you added. In your last post you said they were fill at the end of the pattern, what are they now?

That's true. Fill at the end of the message would appear to be vertical based on the point of view of the picture. The top of the picture is North, too, so you are correct in saying that the reading is on the N-S axis rather than E-W (though I leave it up to you whether it is south to north or north to south).

So if they are not fill at the end of the message what is the purpose of those extra red tiles?

Well, no, the red is there to make the back yard more visually pleasing, as the tan and gray bricks are relatively low contrast.

More visually pleasing, yes, red is his colour.

By now, not only do I doubt that you are quoting me correctly, I also doubt that you are understanding the words I used correctly, but I'm not going to go figure out which post you are quoting from several pages back. If you want to give me a post number, I will go have a look. Otherwise, I'm going to assume you made that up.

Post #55823 "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."

Just follow the rules that exist, not the ones you want to exist.

You mean that you want me to follow the rules that you invented a couple of days ago to cover up your furtive anti-binary behaviours. No thanks. Those rules cannot be deduced by anyone and therefore cannot apply, instead it seems very clear that you added the extra red tiles to throw an error and obstruct or block any attempts to decipher the encoded message.

Sure, but neither of those are practical solutions.

Sure they are, a gap and half tiles are both relatively cheap and easy ways to create a delimiter in the pattern.

You can't seriously have a gap without something in it.

Use your imagination Shaggy, a gap can definitely work as a delimiter.

If I didn't add vegetation, nature would take care of that on its own. I could have made some kind of planter every eigth tile, except that it would make for a HORRIBLE patio. Half tiles would be better than that, but would look terrible, as the rows of bricks would sometimes line up and other times not line up. Keep in mind, that the ultimate goal was to have a backyard patio, not to write a message. The message is secondary.

Sniff, you used to care about binary.

The end of the message is on the other picture, which I didn't add to this thread.

So what are those red tiles doing in the picture you posted?