Drawing Machines 2009

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What was I working on for the Drawing Machines Final?

Here’s the idea: computers are extremely good at simulating things. We create simulacra of everything before creating the final object. The printed page is simulated on-screen before ink is put to paper. Designers simulate books, furniture, cars. Engineers and architects simulate buildings and planes and cars. Physicists simulate the universe. We’re all pretty sure that computers can use that same simulation trait to create interesting artworks. How though? I set out to create some software tools that would help me generate art that I actually think is fun and interesting. Here are a couple pieces I liked.

Melt Triptych

The Melt Triptych is a series of videos created using Processing and a physics engine. The pictures literally melt, and flow to the bottom of the screen. These are meant to be projected side-by side, with the portrait in the middle and a landscape projected on each side. Click on the thumbnails to see the actual videos on Vimeo.com
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drawingtool by Shahar Zaks

Face Fight by Greg Borenstein

Digitalis Interactive By Patrick Hebron

Getting a HP 7550A plotter to work under Linux

Cybernetic Serendipity

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Mythbusters built a robot for Nvidia that catapults 1100 paintballs onto a canvas to produce the Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds. Watch the video and make sure to catch the slow motion amazingness within the last minute.

http://www.simonschubert.de/papierarbeiten.html

Quite spooky.

Muralizer Awesome project on Kickstarter to build a robot that can print digital art on walls at large scale. This seems to relate to a couple of the final project proposals people mentioned in class yesterday.:

“Imagine your digital art as a full-scale mural. Now, imagine you had a robot that could draw it on the wall for you. Muralizer is that robot, and I want to give you one of your own.

Muralizer aims to cover large walls with digital art. There is currently a working prototype and a set of open plans. Anyone can make their own muralizer by downloading the plans, ordering parts from a half-dozen places on the internet, spending a bunch of time tweaking things, and then customizing their art to better fit it. ”

Looks like they’ve raised only $385 of the $4k they’re going for. Maybe to contribute?

Following today’s class, I had the idea of making a Kolam-drawing machine. Well, turns out it’s been done.