An Artist Creates a Renaissance-Style Portrait With Just String

Artist Petros Vrellis forge comfortably in that strange mass medium where engineering converge classical graphics . In 2012 , he create aninteractive van Gogh paintingthat we wish was an app ( hemade it an app a month later ) . For his latest patch , Vrellisuses a reckoner algorithm and a circular loomto create stunning El Greco - inspired portrayal , all meticulously build by helping hand .

My initial reaction to Vrellis ’ art is to think “ that ’s not how drawing string works . ” Talkingwith Hackaday , Vrellis explained that he break the painting down into pixels , assigned each dark section of the house painting a higher number . Then using a data processor , he calculate the 200 different possible outcomes for the 3000 - 4000 passes require to complete the piece of work .

But the most mesmerizing moment is when the jumbled mess of lines actually start to resemble one of El Greco ’s beautiful portrayal . I could watch this amazing dance of thread work all day