Editing Cipher Cracking 2012 (section)

==Specific tasks==

* Critically review the statistical analysis of the letters. See if you can extend it (eg. testing another language previous students missed and checking if they included all possibilities of ambiguous letters).  Is the conclusion of previous team correct?  

* Extend the [[Media:Cipher GUI.rar|CipherGUI 2011]] software that was created by the previous team.  See if you can add more ciphers to the collection. Use it to eliminate more ciphers and enter your conclusions here: [[Cipher Cross-off List]].  Be critical and be prepared to question and recheck some of the items already on the list.

* Create a proper web interface for the web crawler that was written last year and make it easier to use. See if you can run it and get a few example string matches.

* Because the web crawler would take years to trawl the web, write another interface that searches pre-indexed web data. Talk to the comp. sci. department to find sources of user-accessible indexed web data.

* Use computer graphics to reconstruct and undistort the face of the dead man. What would he look like if he were alive? To do this you need to buy a [http://www.david-laserscanner.com/ 3D scanner] and scan in the man's face from a plaster bust that is in a museum. An example of the type of graphics software you can use to manipulate the scanned image is [http://www.123dapp.com/catch 123D].

* Create an entertaining YouTube video of your whole project.