*bump* Hint time: The encoding scheme used in this challenge can encode no more than 63 characters.
*bump* hint time #2: Not every member of a group has equal value, and numbers that come around, wrap around.
The fifth and final challenge of Cemetech Contest #15 is here, which means you have just over one week to submit all five solutions for the contest. Like Challenge 4, this challenge is related to images, so we suggest you think long and hard about possible ways to interpret the number (numbers?) below. When you figure out the cipher and create your solution program, make sure that as in the first three challenges, it takes a string as input via Ans or stdin. It's hopefully enough of a clue to tell you that the output for this challenge should be an image either on the graphscreen, in a picture variable, or for computer programs, as a PNG or GIF image. As with the previous two challenges, we may publish a clue on Friday afternoon at 5pm ET, but we encourage you to try to solve it before Friday to earn maximum points, and we will decide whether to post a clue based on how many entrants have figured out the cipher. Good luck!

Challenge 5: 1111144444444433333333333211112223321122223333333444444444322222222233444
3222334444444443333333321111122233321112222333333333333334111144444444333
3333333333321111112223332111222233333333333333341111114444444433333333322
2222222344443332222344444444444441111111111111111111111111111111111111111
1444444444444444444444434333333333332322222222222222222222211111111111444
4433333333344141211412114121144434323343233432334441412114121141211444343
2334323343233344414121141211412114

Note: line breaks are for clarity, NOT part of the clue

Looks challenging! For the calculators, may be assume the graphscreen is cleared, and no axis or graphs are displayed?
PT_ wrote:
Looks challenging! For the calculators, may be assume the graphscreen is cleared, and no axis or graphs are displayed?


Yes.
Also, jonbush has created the following un-line-broken Pastebin of the clue:
http://pastebin.com/SjQrW5bm

Edit: I want to congratulate PT_ for being the first entrant to submit a correct solution to Challenge #4! And I hope I can encourage the rest of you to look at the two clues we published and try to solve it yourself.
I figured out part 5! I'll submit momentarily.
It seems like there's slightly confusion on the first hint provided for Challenge #4: it specifies that the 95x63-pixel image provided can encode up to a 63-character-long message, not a plaintext consisting of no more than 63 unique characters in its character set (eg, A-Za-z0-9...).
Challenge #5, Hint #1 time! Knobs and a red rectangle.
Challenge #5, Hint #2 time: the object described is an Etch-a-Sketch, which lets you generate an image by using knobs to move a cursor.
  
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