"[Discussion] Calling all puzzle solvers..."

#PokemonGO: If Hanke's comment, "There will always be secrets in the game..." isn't a red herring, then maybe we really haven't figured out all the current easter eggs.I've done some searching across this subreddit as well as /r/pokemongo and /r/pokemongodev and I'm surprised to see that no one has mentioned the peculiar patterns that appear on the evolution platform.After digging through some of the visual assets that were datamined some time ago, the image titled "evolvePlatform_emissive.png" seemed rather interesting to me.Enjoying puzzles and ciphers, I quickly found myself unable to make any sense of the strange patterns. I shared the image with a couple other friends that are good at this sort of thing, but they weren't able to provide any insight either. I thought maybe I'd have better luck here.The notches in the image may be nothing at all, but the frequency (or lack thereof) suggests that they were intentionally designed and potentially some sort of overlooked message waiting to be decoded.In this image, I've arbitrarily color-coded the patterns to help make some sense of it.As you'll see, the outer ring seems to be divided into 4 groups containing 7 notches each. My initial thought was that this could be binary (omitting the first 0 in an 8-digit sequence). That doesn't really make sense since the width of each notch isn't uniform. If it was binary, then it would be logical that each notch has the width of either 1 unit (representing 0) or 2 units (representing 1). If this were the case, it would also imply that it's potentially Morse code. That's not the case though because the notches seem to have a width of 1 to 5 (maybe 6) units. Confusing it even more, the 3 groups on the interior include 8, 9 and 12 notches respectively. Again, simply my humble breakdown thus far.From what I understand, Niantic has been known to do this sort of thing in Ingress — and even allusions in Pokémon GO such as the mysterious "Ditto Code" that still hasn't been resolved — so maybe there actually are secrets we still haven't figured out.Just thought I'd share this in an attempt to get the hivemind's interpretation of it.Some interesting and/or related resources that might be insightful:Puzzles in Crop CirclesCipher DiskSombra Skycode in OverwatchTL;DR Notches on evolution platform are very peculiar. Maybe they're a cipher of some sort? via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2lNvCrX