This robotic painter developed by the University of Konstanz in Germany takes photographs, then uses its software to develop a unique set of brush strokes to make a one-of-a-kind painting of its subject. For everyone who got a fine arts degree thinking that they’d be impervious to replacement by robots, this could not be worse news.
e-David, which even goes so far as to sign its work — and with a creepy reverse-written signature, no less — creates its mechanical masterpieces using five different brushes and a palette of 24 paint colors. Like many human painters, e-David also keeps one eye always on its canvas. That makes it able to change its painting style on the fly, making adjustments to future brush strokes by observing the results of those it has already made.
via Geekosystem
