The Victoria Station cryptogram: encryption or pareidolia?

On the outer walls of the entrance to a subway station in London are numerous dot patterns. Is this a coded message?

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As someone interested in steganography, you see hidden messages almost everywhere. So you easily become a victim of pareidolia, as psychologists call the phenomenon that the brain sometimes recognizes things that are not actually there. The frequent occurrence of pareidolia is due to the fact that our brain is very good at recognizing things and sometimes overshoots the mark.

Is the supposed coded message on EasyJet airline seats that I blogged about a few days ago also just pareidolia, as some readers suggested? Maybe.

Today’s topic could again be a pareidolia discussion, because it is again about patterns that can be seen in public and are probably hardly noticeable to most people, while the steganography-interested immediately smells a coded message.

The Victoria Station Code

The patterns in question are on the outside wall of the entrance to the tube station at Victoria Station in London. Here is a picture of it:

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Here you can see the patterns a little more closely:

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The building consists mainly of large windows. All other exterior surfaces have plates on which there are dots. These dots are located in a 13×9 matrix, which is partly smaller at the edges.

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The dot patterns are reminiscent of Braille, but the latter was based on a six-dot matrix, which doesn’t fit here. As far as I can see, almost every plate looks different (I have discovered one duplication in the meantime), and there are no regularities.

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A coded message?

Do the dots on the subway entrance form a message? This is undoubtedly possible. The various patterns even provide enough entropy to encode an entire text.

Interestingly, I have not found any information on this subject on the Internet. The Victoria Station subway station may have been used by millions of people over the years, but apparently no one is interested in the dot pattern at the entrance yet. Am I really the only one who has noticed this supposed code?

Does any reader know more about it? I would be glad about comments from pareidologists, steganographers and other interested people.

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