Robot Painting a Modern Pop-Art Portrait - Pindar Van Arman

Been doing a lot of portraits recently and experimenting with various new algorithms and effects for my painting machines. I call it robot art, but the robot is just a tool I use to execute the final paintings. Similar to how printmakers use a press, I use my home-made robot...

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• painting
• pop
• pindar
• vanarman
• machine
• acrylic
• canvas

[davepamn]

How do you train the robot in the style of art and color selection?

[pvanarman]

I don't train it, of course, so much as I tell it when a color scheme is successful. In those cases it become more likely to repeat the colors. Problems occurred a while back when I actively trained it using back propagation. It quickly became over-trained and started using the exact color scheme over and over again...

[brainmould]

wow that's some machine you've biult its amazing. how do you contorol it. does it take a picture and draw it or do you draw it on the computer?

[pvanarman]

There are about a dozen ways to run it. Some algorithms just require a digital picture. Others, like the one used in this is a combination of automated algorithms with touch ups by hand in a GUI that I programmed.

[davepamn]

Have you tried using BAM NN and deep learning algorithms and then fine tune using back error propagation?