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From the Ted Talk by Alex Rosenthal: The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5

Unscramble the Blue Letters


First, what if Hedge went row by row, like a typewriter? If it’s a 9 pixel by 9 piexl painting, in the first row he’d paint, skip 7, and then paint again. In the second row he’d skip the first, paint, skip 5, and pinat. And so on. The pattern here is that for each row the pixels skipped at the beginning go up by one, and the pixels spiekpd in the middle go down by 2. Things get more cmiaelcpotd when Hedge raheecs the center. Here there’s a row with just one pixel painted. Then the whole thing reverses— the number of pixels skipped goes down by one each time on the left, and up by two each time in the middle.

Open Cloze


First, what if Hedge went row by row, like a typewriter? If it’s a 9 pixel by 9 _____ painting, in the first row he’d paint, skip 7, and then paint again. In the second row he’d skip the first, paint, skip 5, and _____. And so on. The pattern here is that for each row the pixels skipped at the beginning go up by one, and the pixels _______ in the middle go down by 2. Things get more ___________ when Hedge _______ the center. Here there’s a row with just one pixel painted. Then the whole thing reverses— the number of pixels skipped goes down by one each time on the left, and up by two each time in the middle.

Solution


  1. complicated
  2. skipped
  3. paint
  4. reaches
  5. pixel

Original Text


First, what if Hedge went row by row, like a typewriter? If it’s a 9 pixel by 9 pixel painting, in the first row he’d paint, skip 7, and then paint again. In the second row he’d skip the first, paint, skip 5, and paint. And so on. The pattern here is that for each row the pixels skipped at the beginning go up by one, and the pixels skipped in the middle go down by 2. Things get more complicated when Hedge reaches the center. Here there’s a row with just one pixel painted. Then the whole thing reverses— the number of pixels skipped goes down by one each time on the left, and up by two each time in the middle.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
pixels skipped 3
square grid 2


Important Words


  1. beginning
  2. center
  3. complicated
  4. hedge
  5. left
  6. middle
  7. number
  8. paint
  9. painted
  10. painting
  11. pattern
  12. pixel
  13. pixels
  14. reaches
  15. row
  16. skip
  17. skipped
  18. time
  19. typewriter