How a software engineer solved a three-year mystery of a building broadcasting unread messages

The three-year-old puzzle involving moving light signals above Adobe's building in San Jose has been solved. Engineer Brian Vincent discovered that the messages contained a digital image of a flower from Sandro Botticelli's painting "Birth of Venus." The signals used an old Semafor system based on four illuminated circles whose states change to generate digital patterns, forming complex messages composed of data and artistic images. This experiment exemplifies the fusion of art and technology in the fields of encryption and digital design.

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