34: Steganographic Garfield
| Steganographic Garfield |
 Made by: David Morgan-Mar (idea by Pieter) |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
Stenography, within cryptography, is the practice of hiding a message within something innocuous. In this case, another Garfield strip has been hidden in this one (which deals with exploring the unknown, hence why it was chosen for this purpose). Finding it is left as an exercise for the reader.
As was discovered by Johan and Ellisthion on the forums, after messing around with colors, brightness, and other such things to figure out the difference between the hidden strip and the displayed one, then jacking up the brightness and contrast, you get this image; color-inverting it gets the final image below, a grayscale copy of the strip from March 17, 2006 (wherein Jon tries to play hide-and-seek, hence why it's hidden here). (Incidentally, according to David the lack of color was because it was easier to embed.)
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Garfield: As a cat, I love to explore the unknown.
Garfield: {looks behind himself} Nothing behind me.
Garfield: That's enough exploring for one day.
The author writes[edit | edit source]
Original idea: Pieter
Executed by: David Morgan-Mar
Original strip from 1998-01-12.
