The black section below cannot be a certain color:
The answer is the name of a thematic region and a place of landmarks within it that is being rebuilt.
The black section below cannot be a certain color:
The answer is the name of a thematic region and a place of landmarks within it that is being rebuilt.
Is the answer the following?
Any Hue (city in Vietnam) of purple is forbidden (from Forbidden Purple City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site within Hue).
Explanation:
Reading counterclockwise, starting immediately after the white section, we have the following RGB colours (
?for the unknown colour):(102, 255, 229) (102, 179, 255) (255, 127, 102) (102, 255, 153) (229, 255, 102) (102, 204, 255) (102, 255, 255) (179, 255, 102) ? (255, 204, 102) (255, 127, 102) (102, 255, 153) (255, 127, 102) (102, 255, 153) (229, 255, 102)
Taking the hue of each colour (and rounding to the nearest integer) gives
170 210 10 140 70 200 180 90 ? 40 10 140 10 140 70
Now notice that these are all divisible by 10.
170 -> 17 210 -> 21 10 -> 1 140 -> 14 70 -> 7 200 -> 20 180 -> 18 90 -> 9 ? -> ? 40 -> 4 10 -> 1 140 -> 14 10 -> 1 140 -> 14 70 -> 7
These numbers are all less than 26, so maybe they represent characters (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, ..., Z = 26). Let's try:
17 -> Q 21 -> U 1 -> A 14 -> N 7 -> G 20 -> T 18 -> R 9 -> I ? -> ? 4 -> D 1 -> A 14 -> N 1 -> A 14 -> N 7 -> G We get the string "QUANGTRI?DANANG" We would like to know what's between "QUANGTRI" and "DANANG".
The answer is the name of a thematic region and a landmark within it that is being rebuilt.
Quang Tri is a Vietnamese province, and Danang is a Vietnamese city. What's between them? A quick search shows that the Vietnamese city of Hue is geographically sandwiched between them. Furthermore, a UNESCO World Heritage Site within Hue is called the "Forbidden Purple City".
The black section below cannot be a certain color.
Given the name "Forbidden Purple City", I would suppose that purple is the forbidden colour.
To find the colours, I used an online colour picker. To do the deciphering, I wrote this Python script:
cols = [ (102, 255, 229), (102, 179, 255), (255, 127, 102), (102, 255, 153), (229, 255, 102), (102, 204, 255), (102, 255, 255), (179, 255, 102), (255, 204, 102), (255, 127, 102), (102, 255, 153), (255, 127, 102), (102, 255, 153), (229, 255, 102) ] def hue(r, g, b): r, g, b = r / 255.0, g / 255.0, b / 255.0 mx = max(r, g, b) mn = min(r, g, b) df = mx - mn if mx == mn: h = 0 elif mx == r: h = (60 * ((g - b) / df) + 360) % 360 elif mx == g: h = (60 * ((b - r) / df) + 120) % 360 elif mx == b: h = (60 * ((r - g) / df) + 240) % 360 return h abc = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" for c in cols: i = int(int(round(hue(*c)))/10) print(abc[i-1], i)