Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Source: Objective; 5/21/2003; 8:26:36 AM The matrix has you..  So, saw Reloaded last night.... incredibly impressed.  It will be very difficult for anyone to top the visual effects, overall styling, and pacing;  incredibly well done.  Lots of intricate plot details to pour over;  lots of interesting intersections, thematically and literally, with the original Matrix movie.  More on this, coming soon.  Surf over to the official Matrix web page, however, and they make my head hurt.  First, close to a hundred new visuals posted, a dozen or so new interviews, and updates to many of the existing interviews.  Yeash.  New trailer, which is now one of my favorites.  And a challenge. THE MATRIX: RELOADED covers a lot of ground. The future brings sections on visual effects, the ships, the creatures, the stunts, and much more. All things evolve. For those that understand this, perhaps the following will be understood. 0x[A3B1]A428 (bracketed characters originally hidden completely) For the above hex, you will need a fairly fast computer and graphics card. 0xA3B1A428.  which, if taken as a single number, represents 2,746,328,104.  As 1's and 0's, 1010 0011 1011 0001 1010 0100 0010 1000.  0xA3.B1.A4.28.  Take each hex pair and convert it.  163.177.164.40.  certainly looks like an IP, but its unreachable. Why would I need a fairly fast computer and graphics card for 0xA3B1A428 (or 163.177.164.40)?  My only assumption is that this has something to do with the game, Enter the Matrix.   Google, by the way, turns up nothing for "0xA3B1A428" (at least, it did at the time of my writing this).   oh, rabbit holes... Update! 5/18/03, 9:46pm Gerrard pointed me to the bottom of this... Its quite cool, but not quite as deep as I had originally suspected.  Basically, theres a "Binary Access" mode of the official matrix website.  Goto the flash version.  Click the lil yellow button on the far right.  Theres a green button on the panel that appears. click. Switches appear.  Flip the switches to enter binary numbers. Enter the binary representation of 6F (111 in decimal, 01101111 in binary).  A larger panel appears.  Enter the binary representation of 0xA3B1A428.  You'll get a downloadable 3D model/puzzle of the neb.  Cool!  Flip a bunch of other switches, and you get other fun things... exclusive interviews, episodes of animatrix, etc.  Quite cool.  Btw, for those of you that go and find hex codes that unlock things... the EASIEST way to switch between hex numbers and binary numbers is using calc.exe. Use "view" to switch to "scientific".  click hex.  enter the number, then click bin.  You'll see the bits. By chrisca208@msn.com. [Objective] 10:25:41 AM    trackback []     Articulate []