eDavid: robot artist

In order to learn how to paint, you need to study for many years. There are, of course, brilliant self-taught, but they also have to spend a fair amount of time to achieve the level of a professional. But if you are a robot, whose name is e-David, no training is needed, only high-quality software and acrylic paints are required. Well, brush, of course.

Robot has created a development team from the University of Konstanz (Germany). The robot, according to its creators, is able to create a copy of almost any picture he sees. In order for the robot to work normally, he was given paints, the opportunity to work with a 24-color palette, as well as a brush.
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The process of creating a new picture begins with the fact that eDavid photographs the original picture. After that, he analyzes the resulting photo, trying to "understand" where and how to apply strokes to get a copy of the picture. His style is similar to the “pointe”, but instead of points the robot applies thin, almost weightless brush strokes.



Every few minutes, the robot photographs its work, comparing it with the original. If required, it makes adjustments, and continues to work.

As mentioned above, there are several limitations. First, the robot is able to work only with acrylic paints, because they quickly dry. Of course, he will not be able to reproduce watercolor drawings as we would like. In addition, the robot has three degrees of freedom of its “arm”, so that the application of strokes is also carried out according to a limited, if one may say so, algorithm.







Nevertheless, what turns out looks quite interesting to itself; it is not daubing, but real pictures. Maybe soon some of the work of the robot will be exhibited in the gallery.



Via geek