CODE PAGE
'M' LINE 1
You should be able to make out complete strings of numbers with some letters in each line that comprises the letter 'M' on lines 1,2 and 3. They are quite small and I have done the best I can, for now, to get close up images.
The new camera and techniques used to remove the lighter colours have improved what we see enormously. It is important to understand that this image will be difficult to enlarge.
And by special request, this next image is of the letter R and the letter G from line 1 for Pete Bowes:
Well done Gordon, so tantalising to be almost able to make sense of the figures/letters. Clive
ReplyDeleteHello Gordon,
ReplyDeleteI am a pc game developer from Europe.
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Currently we are looking for someone join our team to help us create a story for the game and make it entertaining and real at the same time. More likely we will start in Q2 2020.
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Many thanks and keep up the good work.
On the letter 'R', at the bottom of the LHS leg, looks like the letters: 'see' with a question mark next to it. Clive
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of the faintly drawn M behind the ink version of the first line M? It suggests that the M was written twice and only the second one traced in ink by the policeman. Is the faint one an example of a code letter before being traced over with ink? If the original code was only there as an imprint, as were the micro codings, is that related to the pencils found in SM's case, 3 of which were "H" pencils, i.e. perfect for detail? Was the original imprint of the code letters in the book exactly the width of the ink version? - presumably so since the micro code is always inside the ink version. I assume that the ink ran into the indentations of the micro code which might have been written with say an "H" pencil, something capable of writing such tiny letters. Maybe the knife in the bag was to sharpen the pencil. I'm making an assumption here that SM might have been the one who wrote the micro code Tim
ReplyDeleteThis post goes back a couple of years and since then camera, software and printers have improved, there are some better images of the M in more recent posts and I will dig them out. It's a good question, when you see the newer images you should just be able to make out indentations in the 'shadow' M. Mentioned elsewhere, I don't think the suitcase belonged to the man.
ReplyDeleteNot all of the micro code is hidden behind the inked over areas, again, more recent images show that.
According to Gerry Feltus, part of the process used to recover the detaiuls from the code page was to turn the image negative. So, when you consider that indentations are generally paler than the surface they appear on, by turning the image negative, the indentations will look darker and the background lighter. When the Police or whoever it was that inked over the code details they added another layer of black making it even denser. But, the camera and the resultant file that we now have, detected those small variations in darkness of colour on the photograph. The grayscale images are 8 bit and have 256 shades of colour.
Hope this helps!