http://netvouz.com/tag/ned?feed=rss Bookmarks tagged with "ned" on Netvouz http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200806/spore_creature_creator_and_steganography.html Looking at the PNGs on the Spore page though, they have not done this. There is no data other than the image. But dragging the PNG into Creator does indeed give you the creature as structured data. Renaming the PNG doesn't affect the data transfer, but any sort of editing of the image does. They're using steganography, hiding one message inside another. In this case, they seem to be using the least significant bits in all the pixels. fjordaan Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:25:00 GMT http://www.nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/coverage.html Ned Batchelder Public > Imported > Python mrkane Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:57:13 GMT http://home.uni-one.nl/walembryo/epartik.htm Bookmarks Toolbar Folder Stoney_Runes Fri, 20 May 2005 03:31:22 GMT http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ juandesant Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:24:41 GMT http://nedmartin.org/ fjordaan Sat, 01 May 2004 12:45:50 GMT