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Software engineer decodes three-year-old light puzzle on Adobe building, revealing hidden Renaissance painting
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Software engineer decodes three-year-old light puzzle on Adobe building, revealing hidden Renaissance painting
A software engineer has deciphered a three-year-old encoded light display on the Adobe headquarters in San Jose, California, uncovering a digital image of a rose from Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus."
- Since May 2023, four lit circles on the Adobe building moved in repeating patterns, which were later found to be part of an art installation transmitting encoded data.
- Software engineer Brian Vincent analyzed thousands of signals and determined the data represented pixel color values of a digital image.
- The decoded image was a single rose from the Renaissance painting "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli.
- Adobe has announced a new puzzle in the project, with the first solver receiving a two-year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud.
TopicsLight DisplayAdobe HeadquartersSandro BotticelliCreative CloudPuzzleBrian Vincentsoftware engineeringSan JoseEncoded DataArt InstallationRenaissance PaintingBirth of Venus
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