Reminds me of the [url=http://img.math-fail.com/images-old/cropcircle1.jpg]crop circle interpretation of Pi[/url] in a way. If it's representing a number or characters, there needs to be some sort of start/stop reference point. I'll use a clock face to communicate my thoughts. Any start and/or stop is going to be unique. Looking at the circle, we do not see any physically unique pointers, but what catches my eye is at the 6 o'clock position. Here is the only "sector," as I will call each 10 degree wedge, that has no cross lines and no "blocks," as I will refer to the segments making up sectors. this would be a good place to start if there is indeed any information in this image. We really don't need to decide whether or not to go right or left. We just need to come up with some sort of translation algorithm for which to interpret sector length and block number and position as intelligible information. The two most likely will be a sector to number translation or a sector to letter translation. Let's look at what each sector is made up of objectively. We have three components to each sector. We have the radiating lines from the center circle. We have the arc segments that connect the radiating lines in a yet unknown pattern. We also have ticks on the outer perimeter. Let's ignore the ticks at first, assuming that the important information is going to be contained in the center of the image. I also believe we should ignore the radiating lines. I believe their only purpose is to indicate character breaks, and this is why. If we look at the first segment to the right of the six o'clock position, we see a gap in the radiating line. First instinct is to believe it contains some sort of information, like the position of numbers in a multi-digit number. This concept will cause problems, as you can see in the next adjacent sector to the right. Being in between sectors, we cannot tell if a radiating line pauses or not. Perhaps it does, and it is the radiating line from the next adjacent sector. But we cannot determine this, and the designer of such an image, if it does indeed have a purpose, would know that. Thus, I believe they are to be ignored. That means that any pertinent information is going to be contained in the arc segments in between radiating lines. We have two factors that could represent information. Position of an arc segment along a sector and number of arc segments per sector. Either, or both, could be information. Let's just take a guess and see where it lands us. I am going to start from the 6 o'clock position and work counter clockwise. Currently I am interpreting the presence of an arc as a 1 and the lack of an arc as a 0. It's not ascii, as that requires 8 bits, but perhaps if I convert to decimal, it will give me the ascii code number. BRB.