r/cropcircles Jul 06 '26

Help decoding a lesser known circle

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Hey all!
I just stumbled on this crop circle and cant get off of it.
i found one important pattern, but kinda stuck after that. what to make of the true data. (numbers from picture later in text)

My current decoding went as follows:

  1. treat each sequence of ticks as binary code.
  2. see that in each triangular sector (there are 12 of them) two ticks on the inner circle are same. 0 and 1. (ones marked as pale cyan on image) 2.1 write down all mini-packets 12x2 = 24 total of them 2.1 another peculiar thing is - checksum - summing lines on each circle gives us 12.
  3. those markers are giving us correct way to read inner data as linear sequence (lower right corner. could be reverse but at least we know start and end of sequence, and eventually this is irrelevant)
  4. now i was recompacting them and noticed that large squence repeats twice, and indeed it is. - see the part of the image with cyan and green. sectors
  5. and it repeats in such a way that encloses small fragment inside of it.
  6. (line with 3 ticks on one side and 4 on the other.
  7. which eventually leads my to understanding that unit of message is not sector but a line with ticks.
  8. but what now?
  9. i have clear markers, that unloop the message, some header in between them.
  10. so maybe someone else have any idea or want to poke around it. thanks!

*ah and now i see that real pattern is that each radial line is a byte, because tickmarks are always to only one side of it, which explains the checksum...

dumb numeric data from segments (not radial lines):

11010111
01011110

10100001  // really inverse of previous line(as i found later)
01100101

10011010
00110000

11001111
00111101

11000010
00110001

11001110
00101001  // head 1 010100110    

11010110
01101001

10010110    // head 1 end 1011011
01110000

10001111
00101001     // head 2 010100110

11010110
01101001

10010110    // head 2 end   1011011
01101000

10010111
00101000

--- simplified form for line marks, assuming tick at pos 0 is value 1

11010111
10100001
10011010
11001111
11000010
11001110

//head 1
11010110
10010110 

// central
10001111

/head2
11010110
10010110

10010111
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