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.