Virtual Cryptic Notes via Rotated Message Segments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for creating cryptic messages lack interactive and entertaining ways for users to discover hidden messages, especially with the rise of personal computing and portable communication devices, where users desire engaging puzzles that emerge from virtual sequences.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method generates virtual cryptic notes by arranging message portions in different orientations, allowing users to input and manipulate messages that become decipherable when viewed from specific angles, enabling transmission and display on various devices and platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If message portions are arranged in different rotated orientations to create cryptic notes, then the entertainment and interaction value is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The message is divided into multiple portions that are arranged in different orientations. Each portion can be independently positioned and rotated, allowing the system to create complex cryptic notes from simpler individual elements. This segmentation enables high entertainment value through multiple viewing angles while managing complexity by breaking down the overall design into manageable segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional linear text arrangement to multi-dimensional spatial arrangement by rotating message portions at different angles (e.g., 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°). This dimensional change creates depth and requires users to view the note from multiple angles to decipher the complete message, significantly enhancing entertainment and interaction value.
2Loss of information
If multiple message portions are arranged in overlapping rotated orientations, then the ability to obscure and reveal messages is improved, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring increases
Solution Approach 1:
Different portions of the message are assigned different local qualities through specific rotation angles and positioning. Each message portion is optimized for a particular viewing angle, creating local information density that varies across the note. This allows the system to effectively obscure the complete message while maintaining detectability through strategic placement of readable segments at various angles.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method is described. A message is received from a user via a user interface of a computer device. The message includes at least first and second portions. A virtual cryptic note is generated that includes the first portion of the message arranged in a first orientation, and the second portion of the message arranged in a second orientation that is rotated relative to the first orientation, with the second portion of the message overlapping the first portion of the message. The virtual cryptic note is provided to the user. Cryptic notes can be useful and entertaining, particularly when used online, in email and/or in social media.