Robot Art Competition

This was the one intriguing image from the article that got me to read it.

Apparently there’s a robot art competition and it’s a thing and it’s been going on for a while, at least according to VentureBeat. VB puts out a lot of interesting avenues to explore in terms of what people are doing in the field and from the surface, it’s mostly built upon machine learning.

My favorite aspect of the article revolves around someone who’s produced what sounds like a rather elaborate real-world robot to execute his creations,  and the rather long list of software that people are using in this competition all are things I intend to explore further. Hopefully with another blog post as we go down the rabbit hole together.

Personally, while the bulk of the artwork shown in the article appears more than a little derivative to me, I’m sure that this is the phase of ML art similar to the time in the late ’90s where everyone found digital art production.

That was a terrible time where everything that was new basically was somebody either painting just like they did only with digital means (woo! Wacom tablets!!!) or sliced and stacked myriad filters on stuff (have you seen the lates Kai’s Power Tools??) – sort of an Andy Warhol nightmare. I’m sure he’d have laughed.

Then things got really, really good – and all with the same software, well maybe not Kai’s Power Tools.

Nagami’s Uncommonly Nice Looking 3D Printed Chairs

Nagami – who has not only introduced me to some pretty nice looking printing but also to the fact that ‘.design’ is actually a real, top-level thing – are the group behind these images featured on DesignMilk.

Thanks Nagmai and DesignMilk!

Typically, I’ve found 3D printed furniture to be a bit more on the proof-of concept side of things (probably because they’re usually technology dog-and-pony shows heavy on the shiny bits of technology but light on thoughtful design), these actually look stunning. Makes me wish I had an industrial robotic arm with a massive print head attached to it. Would certainly like to see these done in a few hours, as advertised. And the filament color transitions…

This is where having your own industrial robot pays off.

Head over to DesignMilk to see more pictures and certainly swing over to Nagami’s site for even more.