The robot paints portraits almost like a human

    Patrick Tresse, a French artist and programmer based in London, has been creating a robot capable of drawing like a human for several years. Usually a machine imitation of strokes and lines made by a human hand looks false and primitive, but Patrick managed to achieve impressive success. A robot named Paul, created as part of the Aikon-II project , draws quite convincingly and naturally. Its algorithms are the fruit of many years of study and analysis of thousands of graphic works by artists of different eras and styles.



    Patrick Tresse admits that the mechanical hand that holds the pen and bar after bar creates a portrait of a person - rather a decoration that creates a psychological mood for the viewer, because the same image could be printed in a few seconds on a printer. But the process of generating a portrait is based on modeling human perception and movements of the artist’s hand. In the future, Tresse plans to teach Paul to imitate the style of different artists and combine them, developing his own style.


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