All there was in the adamsplatform.pdf file was that one diagram, though, so it is preserved in all its magnificence in that image file.

I wonder whatever happened to his money. And how he's managed to stay out of jail.

Actually, almost all humans do that, to a greater or lesser extent. Schizophrenics are just more egregious about it.

As for Adam himself... I've heard it said that one sign of schizophrenia is the ability to hold contradictory thoughts in one's head. Alternatively, to be able to believe 100% in something one knows is a lie. This was exactly what I observed in Adam when the house of cards began its collapse. It was his own unwavering conviction that made him so difficult to dismiss, or to catch out.

As to how he pulled it off? Mostly sleight of hand, both physical and technological.

I was certain he'd land in jail. Oh, well, that's corporate law for you.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding the diagram and the flow chart, of course.

And, no, I don't know what the equation at the bottom is supposed to be, unless it's an overall gamma to approximate the base brightness of the image.

Or it could just be lunacy.

The above diagram is exactly the sort of thing that the cleverer sort of schizophrenia sufferer often generates, but I don't think Adam Clark is that sort of fellow - or, at least, he wasn't a few years ago when he was scamming people with the Adams Platform.

Then again, I also have no strong reason to suppose that Adam Clark actually had anything to do with this new "missing algorithm". Mr Anderson's e-mail, in contrast, is practically diagnostic of some sort of delusional disorder all by itself. For all I know, he thinks Adam Clark sent Diagram A to him by mental telepathy.

(I'm not about to correspond with Mr Anderson to determine his beliefs about the provenance of the diagram; this guy gives me all the crackpottery I can handle already.)