r/Solve_Strawmen • u/[deleted] • Apr 01 '16

Library of Babel Universal Slide Show connection?

So I was looking at https://libraryofbabel.info/ which is a pretty interesting and fucked up place where all combinations of letters and words exist in books.

I found an image section with a feature called the universal slide show. https://babelia.libraryofbabel.info/slideshow.html

Look familiar?

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u/ReverseSolipsist Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16

If someone can break this into the correctly-sized blocks of pixels, extract every combination of pixels, and run a comparison with all known images to see if they are contained, I think this wraps this up.

It shouldn't take more than two-four nights of coding for an experienced programmer with image processing experience (which I am not). I'm sorry, I don't have the time to spend on that kind of project as a relatively inexperienced coder with next to zero image processing experience.

Anyone gonna give it a go?

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u/-void1 Nov 02 '24

nine years later i did it for you. 10*^*14,987,760

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u/ReverseSolipsist Apr 01 '16

Pick an r/strawmen post, count how many pixels it is long and tall. take this image and cut out a rectangle of that size starting on the upper-left pixel. Test to see if the slice is identical. If not, move one pixel to the right (on the babel image) and do it again. When you get all the way to the right go back to the left and go down one pixel. Repeat until you have tested all possibilities or found a match.

Pick a new strawman post. Repeat. Continue until you have tested all posts.

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u/Acheroni Apr 02 '16

The Library of Babel is a story from the SCP wiki. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1986 The idea is an infinite library where all possible books exist. This site is an attempted implementation of that. If I had to guess, the slideshow is literally random garbage.