Image Corruption
by Andy Tockman
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Oh no! Your graphics designer was working on a fantastic image demonstrating the beautiful pictures you can create by combining just three primary colors, but their computer crashed and all their hard work was lost! All that's left is this corrupted image:
They appear pale, their face drained of color, as they walk away from the computer in resignation, but you notice some notes they had scribbled and left behind:
- Calculation device (6 → 5)
- Reverses trig functions (3 → 2)
- Puzzle game "____ is you" (4 → 2)
- Site of defenestrations (7 → 6)
- City near MIT (6 → 5)
- Unix-based family of operating systems (3 → 2)
- Clinton's nickname (5 → 2)
- Holiday dairy drink (6 → 3)
- Makes a mistake (4 → 2)
- Awkwardly tall and thin, or a small criminal group? (8 → 5)
- Laughing cutely (8 → 4)
- Take a drink (6 → 4)
- Old-school text communication platform (3 → 2)
- Rough, uneven, irregular, or pointed (6 → 4)
- Reflective objects (7 → 4)
- Halves of a byte (7 → 5)
- Return from the dead (9 → 6)
- A tricky coyote's perpetual enemy (10 → 7)
- Largest city in Vietnam (6 → 5)
- Opposite of civilization, according to Roy Pearce (8 → 7)
- Company that does what Nintendon't (4 → 3)
- Family relation, or relationship between cities (6 → 5)
- When a line barely touches a circle, say (8 → 7)
- Type of worker, file, variable, or tattoo (9 → 7)
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| 3 | ||||||||
| 9 | ||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||
| 10 | ||||||||
| 6 | 4 | |||||||
| 2 | ||||||||
| 8 |
It seems like all is lost, but you think you can at least figure out how they could have avoided this. What could prevent a similar disaster from happening in the future?
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