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Solved! The secret Fringe glyph code
Fans of Fringe: You've known all along that those weird glyph images that precede commercials meant something. The producers have said that they mean something (see video below).
And now Julian Sanchez, a genius code-cracker at Ars Technica, has figured it out. (With a nod to colleague Erica Sadun.) If you want to play along, the solution is after the jump.
Sanchez has identified which symbols correspond to which letters of the alphabet and has unraveled the secret code word embedded in each episode, which we're promised will provide a new clue to the overarching mythology of "the Pattern."
Click through to get the list of code words by episode. Fringe airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
By farscape29 at 3:59 PM ON 04/08/09
WOW...I would pick up on the oddity of each image, but I didn't think there was any hidden code. I always thought the little light orb was there just so that all the images (when repeated) were exactly the same. Good work! I'll start paying extra attention now. There was a new one last night with some smoke. What letter could that be?
By ChrisPatterson at 4:01 PM ON 04/08/09
farscape -- I believe you are referring to the image that corresponds to the letter "T" in the key image above. That is, unless the dot is in a different location this time...
By Curt Rozeboom at 6:04 PM ON 04/08/09
The secret message this week is...
OVALTINE!
Someone had to say it.
By JK at 7:23 PM ON 04/08/09
Now my big question: Why is "Dark Matter" displayed twice during the show's credits? All other words appear once, but DM gets shown at two different instances... any idea? Mistake most likely, but who knows....
By Rob Cannon at 9:21 PM ON 04/08/09
OK,something doesn't make sense. I assume that sentence fragment at the end of the video is what has been decoded so far. But in the key of images, there is no image for W yet, but W appears twice in the sentence fragment.
By the katwoman at 4:04 PM ON 04/11/09
The M should be the mirror image of the seahorse. In the picture above the dot is half way down the LEFT side, not C D or E, mabye it's the F.
By thekatwoman at 4:08 PM ON 04/11/09
This is of course a way to make sure everyone watches all the breaks and commericals and doesn't TIVO through everything.
By tim at 3:03 PM ON 04/13/09
By splice at 12:36 PM ON 08/18/09
heh tim ovaltine :D
By K3rsh3w at 11:55 AM ON 09/25/09
The seahorse facing left with a dot in the lower left corner is the glyph for "M"
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