I reverse engineered a work of art, and this is what I learned - Yair Galler

[EuroPython 2024 - Terrace 2B on 2024-07-10]
I reverse engineered a work of art, and this is what I learned by Yair Galler
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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!
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