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Cardsharping with steganography is a accepted motive on classical paintings. Actuality are bristles examples.
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Steganography is a able apparatus with abounding absorbing applications. This is apparent in my latest book Versteckte Botschaften. One of the capacity in this assignment is committed to the art of steganographic cardsharping.
It goes after adage that hidden letters (this is what steganography is about) can be actual accessible for cheating in agenda games. For instance, two agenda players can use abstruse signals to barter advice about their easily in adjustment to bluff a third player. In addition, a being not demography allotment in the bold can accelerate steganographic signals to one of the players, appropriately allegorical him about his opponents’ cards.
In my book abounding tricks of this affectionate are described. For added advice about cheating (not alone with steganograpic means) I can acclaim the book How to Bluff at Everything by Simon Lovell.
Blog clairvoyant Thomas Ernst, who afresh apparent the blank of Ferdinand III., acicular out to me that cardsharping with steganography is a accepted motive on classical paintings. This can be seen, for instance, on the afterward painting blue-blooded Cardsharps created by Caravaggio about 1594:
["614.98"]As can be seen, the man in the accomplishments signals advice about the cards of the amateur on the larboard to the added amateur application a feel code. In addition, the bastard on the appropriate has hidden cards on his aback – an archetype of non-steganographic cheating.
The afterward painting (The Agenda Amateur with the Ace of Diamonds by Georges de la Tour, ~1620) shows a agnate scene:
Again, the agenda aciculate has hidden cards on his back. His victim is the adolescent man on the right, while the woman in the average is his accomplice. Apparently, the assistant in the accomplishments knows the cards of the victim. The way she serves the wine bottle is apparently a steganographic bulletin for the agenda sharps (the capacity of this cipher are larboard to speculation).
Here’s addition painting with a agnate motive (The Cardsharps by Wouter Crabeth, 16th century):
["601.4"]The victim is the adolescent man in the atramentous shirt. The steganographic arresting accustomed by the woman abutting to him is absolutely obvious. Maybe the assistant in the accomplishments gives a signal, too.
It is accessible to see what happens on the afterward painting (Cardsharps by Valentin Boulogne, 1620):
On the afterward pianting (Card Players in a Sumptuous Interior by Pieter de Hooch, ~1665) the signaling is beneath obvious:
["509.25"]The victim is the adult in the red skirt. The accomplished man abutting to her holds his bottle such that the cards are mirrored in it. This arresting is meant for the amateur sitting in the background.
The account of paintings apparent actuality is far from complete. If you apperceive added of this kind, amuse leave a comment.Follow @KlausSchmehFurther reading: y appointment at the Cheltenham Listening Stones
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