{"id":4546,"date":"2014-01-12T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2024-08-01T06:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:09:40","slug":"cicada-3301-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-3301-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada 3301 Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: the cicada is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-3301-cicada-compared-to-distantalna-splendida\/\">Distantalna splendida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago someone asked me what species of cicada the Cicada 3301 logo represented. At the time I did not know what Cicada 3301 was. Later on I learned that Cicada 3301 is some kind of international organization that uses puzzles to recruit people who are really good at figuring out puzzles &#8230; or something like that. This sounds very interesting, and it might be something I would be into if I had more free time. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the 3301 logo (which is presumably copyrighted by the Cicada 3301 organization):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cicada_3301_logo1.jpg\" alt=\"cicada 3301\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cicada_3301_logo1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cicada_3301_logo1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The logo appears to be a photo of a cicada processed with an emboss filter. (I&#8217;ve seen other versions of the logo, which look like the embossed logo run through an ASCII filter that makes it look like the green alphanums on a black background like the Matrix or the Homebrew setting for Terminal windows on the Mac.) <\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about the 3301 logo is that the cicada appears to be a collage. The veins of the right hind wing are different than the left hind wing. Either the wing was taken from a different species, or the lines that appear in the anal lobe were cloned\/copied to cover the entire hindwing. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cicadawings.jpg\" alt=\"cicada wings\" width=\"640\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cicadawings.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cicadawings-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting. When I have more time I&#8217;ll try to ID the actual cicada &#8212; or at least the primary species the image was made from.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what 3301 stands for? Entomologists Enjoy Only Insects?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: the cicada is a Distantalna splendida. A few weeks ago someone asked me what species of cicada the Cicada 3301 logo represented. At the time I did not know what Cicada 3301 was. Later on I learned that Cicada 3301 is some kind of international organization that uses puzzles to recruit people who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1058"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}