Just edited my above reply to include the image, but I wanted it to have the source URL without showing the image itself. Just an easy copy/paste in your browser 
Or maybe blue and black? /ducks
More seriously, there might be some things that become more obvious if you rotate the hues or do some other sort of colour manipulation.
One other thing I thought of when I first saw it was that if you kept track of the number of pixels each band in the “fin” part had to be moved in order to line them up, then those numbers might code for something. However, since then there’s been a lot of more knowledgeable analysis of the image at the byte level, and it seems more likely that the manipulation/glitching was done at that level, rather than by manually shifting bands.
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I found myself re-watching Dune the other day looking for this thing (didn’t spot it yet). I’m wracking my brain right along with you.
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You won’t get anywhere watching a movie/tv rendition. Read the book for the real philosophical insights man!
Although, it does look kinda like the stupid headdress the Reverend Mother wore in the mini-series.
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Maybe if we are able to find out what the logo is/stands for we can find out what the object is.
Has anyone tried splitting the color channels into Red, Green, and Blue? Perhaps something is hidden by the combining of the color channels.
TQQdles™
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Please excuse any idiocracy I may potentially spout but I just ran this picture through an online photo forensic and it is saying it has been through two encoding processes with one having been ‘Huffman Coding’. I dont pretend to know anything about encoding or any of this kind of stuff…I am just your normal average joe but when I googled ‘Huffman Coding’ it said it was a sort of algorithm encoding process so I just though maybe it was something important. Of course I feel like I am being dumb here but hey i thought I would just give it a mention in case its not been mentioned before.
On a side note I am enjoying this ARG, keep up the good work everyone…there are so many intelligent people in this community.
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This is very interesting! I don’t know anything about this kind of thing either, but, on your notes, I did some googling until I came across an example of someone simply changing the .jpg extension to .txt and opening the file in notepad. You’ll end up with a large block of text and symbols. I don’t see anything glaring in the text, but maybe someone could use it to find something hidden within?
My apologies if this stuff has been tried!
No apology needed. Yeah I’ve already done the notepad thing (as a side not you don’t have to change anything you can just select “open with” then select notepad). But this news about Huffman Coding is new to me. I’m going to read on it and see if there is a way to reverse it. THANK YOU!
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Huffman coding definitely sounds like something Sean Murray or others in Hello Games would be into. I bet this is a new image from the game they changed with this special coding for us to decipher.
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Huffman encoding is what the JPEG file format uses to compress images, so it’s not surprising that it would detect that.
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Yeah, I just did some reading and it seems as though this is something that is used with jpg to compress and decompress. It’s usual, but I found some other programs to check out if there is any specific information hidden. I will try a bit later and keep you posted.
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So I did a quick sketch over the sectors. When I looked at it that way around, it looked a little strange. Like it was meant to be a multi-tool, but didn’t quit fit the shape. So I took the bottom section which looks intentionally messed with, and mirrored it. Lined it up and the below image is pretty much what I’d expect for a multitool.
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I still think it’s a building… if you look in the background you can see a faded one in thve distance. But I like what you’ve done 
Nice sketch!
Hello everyone!
First post/comment and excited to be here!
I was looking at the image I obtained through the link provided in the PDF to get the most accurate image.
I’m not convinced that the content of the image is what is important but how the image is distorted.
Upon realigning the distorted portions, I noticed that each section was offset by multiples of 16 pixels. The bottom 8-bit-looking image seems to be in a 8 x 8 px format. Perhaps the realignment pattern of the image can be applied to the bottom portion to reveal something. Edit: the bottom image is also 256 px high (16x16), the top image is (visibly) 1008px (16x63). There seems to be a deliberate pattern here.
I’ve posted an effort here: https://twitter.com/peacefulgamer/status/880142279905771521
Would love to know your thoughts.
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OMG, i frigin knew that and it didn’t click… i had been re-aligning the image using 16pixels etc.
Ok, so i need to figure out how to resolve this… it is driving me crazy.
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Yay PG! Glad to see you in the rabbit hole too!
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I mean, i can do anything to this image… but i’m trying to get meaningful results and i’m failing… i can correct the image, and line up all the sections but the second structure is out of whack, also fixing the image does nothing to the bottom section really… so i’m just trying to figure out how to make this work… i still can’t believe that i missed the 16 pixel thing, even though thats what i was using to adjust the image in the first place.
“Hidden in Plain Sight.”
I’ve done the middle portion only as I’m not certain how the top or bottom are to be shifted. Seems that there are a few different ways to go. Perhaps multiplying the dimensions (ei. 16x16=256) and recording he result holds something? Though, I can’t help but feel that the bottom can be decoded.
I also notice that the bottom image, when rotated 90° CCW it almost fits the corrected distortion pattern. There may be vertical and horizontal portions to it. There do seem to be two colours used so perhaps one orientation may work for either portion.