I reverse engineered a work of art, and this is what I learned
07-10, 16:05–16:35 (Europe/Prague), Terrace 2B

This is the story of a weekend project which turned into a months long challenge. After coming across a photorealistic painting made entirely out of strings, I wanted to create one on my own. But how? I decided to reverse engineer the algorithm that computes which strings to stretch and in which order.

In this talk, I will show how I created a Python algorithm that produces a beautiful work of art. I will cover topics such as greedy algorithms, image processing, color spaces, performance optimization and many other challenges that I encountered while cracking the algorithm. And of course, I'll show the resulting work of art!


Expected audience expertise

Beginner

See also: Slides for the talk

Yair is a tech lead at Next Insurance, an insurtech startup. At Next, he translates the complex world of insurance into reliable, elegant code. He also has a passion for developer productivity, constantly working on improving methods and tooling.

In his previous roles he was an engineering team lead and software architect at several early and mid-stage startups. He has development experience in a wide range of field including devops, data engineering, backend as well as frontend systems.