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DARPA scanned the shreds. The funny thing is, they didn't want to shred the original paper, so first they photocopied the paper in a high quality color copier,
by otaviogood 1y ago
DARPA scanned the shreds. The funny thing is, they didn't want to shred the original paper, so first they photocopied the paper in a high quality color copier, shredded it, and scanned it. And that's where the little yellow dots came from. :D
- dylan604 1y agointeresting. now my brain is churning on why would they not want the originals shredded. what does that say about the value they placed on the originals? why would they open a contest up with documents of such perceived value as the content? being DARPA, i'm sure there's a reason though
- otaviogood 1y agoYou might be reading into it too much. I think the originals were just random pieces of different kinds of paper. Graph paper, yellow lined, paper, blank white paper... I don't remember exactly, but I think the copies could be special paper with a colored backside so they would know which way was up really easily for the scanning process.
- dylan604 1y agono it was a deliberate what if meant in jest that probably really could have been kept to myself
- anitil 1y agoDid they scan both sides of the shreds?