Alvin is a developer working in IoT audio. Before that he did developer relations for open-source feature flags (Unleash) and Contentful.
Before all that, he was a lead engineer for Dow Jones at the Wall Street Journal and had various front-end roles for about 8 years. He’s happiest working on visual challenges with designers.
Ever wondered how your scribbles on Snapchat turns into a smooth line, or how the pen tool works in Figma or Procreate? In this talk we'll dive into the invisible art of line-drawing algorithms, and more.
We'll start from the historical pixel-based methods to the tools that we use today, wrapping up with real-world examples.
We'll answer questions like:
How do apps turn your scribbles into smooth lines?
How do Bézier curves work?
What's in a font?
How do computers do colours?
The techniques described are evergreen, timeless and platform-agnostic.
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