The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5 | Summary and Q&A
TL;DR
Ethic and Hedge help Octavia by defacing paintings to create a distraction while they seek the second artifact.
Key Insights
- 🤳 The treehouse sanctuary was established as a place where people could pursue their passions and crafts but devolved into self-centeredness.
- 🤖 The location of the second artifact is in a tower guarded by various traps and bots.
- 🍗 Octavia has been trying to reach the tower for years but has been unsuccessful.
Transcript
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Questions & Answers
Q: Why do Ethic and Hedge need to create a distraction?
They need a distraction to reach the tower where the second artifact is, as it is heavily guarded and protected.
Q: How does Hedge program himself to paint an X on the paintings?
Hedge treats the paintings as square grids and uses a set of instructions to paint row by row, with specific rules for skipping pixels and reversing the process.
Q: Why does Octavia want the paintings defaced?
Octavia believes that defacing the paintings will create chaos and blame the helper-bots, thus providing the distraction they need to reach the tower.
Q: What challenges does Hedge face in defacing the paintings?
Hedge's painting processor requires specific instructions, and he can only move forward, make 90-degree turns, and paint one pixel at a time, creating a challenge in programming the desired pattern.
Summary & Key Takeaways
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Ethic and Hedge arrive in the forest to find Octavia, the director of the colony.
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Octavia asks them to deface paintings to create a distraction so they can reach the tower where the second artifact is.
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Hedge finds a way to program himself to paint an X on each painting in a specific pattern.
