Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus

http://storyteller.allesblinkt.com

The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings.

The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext.

New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• patents
• story
• installation
• 2009
• drawing
• machine
• perpetual
• storytelling
• apparatus
• julius
• von
• bismarck
• benjamin
• maus
• udk
• berlin

[spruce1000]

How do you detect the images in the patent and convert them to vector based?

Plotters can only print vector images right?

[allesblinkt]

@spruce1000 Check out things like autotrace and gocr. Those are open-source tools for tracing bitmaps. Similar principles are used here.

[rostasi]

I saw this in Linz. Great work gentlemen. I was mesmerized by this. I kept retuning to it. The interconnectedness, sound, and basic visual presentation has found a special place in my brain.

[Dbobola]

@fknrdcls Ohhhhh Wow! I didn't know that! Thank you for sharing that with me. :)

[youaredissolved]

This is an amazing and beautiful project! I find the content quite poetic. Great work. I'm inspired!

[fknrdcls]

@Dbobola mate this is just an XY plotter and maybe some cleaver scripting, these have been around for decades but are not used anymore as they have been replaced by medium to large format printers. I still use my Roland DXY-1300 to plot circuit designs directly to copper board for etching, as it can take almost any pen, it is mesmerizing to watch one work.

[mastashaker916]

I want one.

[HerrSalat]

sehr cool julius;)

[lixeve]

wow I'd like to have one of those