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> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algo
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming.
A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.
- pimlottc 6y agoI agree with you. At the same time, I suspect that the act of filling each bubble by hand is an important part of the process for this artist.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThat's exactly it; with art, the process is part of the product. Because if you look at any picture objectively, you think "Anyone could do that", which is why a lot of people pull up their noses at art, and by extension, anyone pursuing a career as an artist. But art where the process is part of it is just one of the many branches of the art world. A lot of people consume the arts on a regular basis without even considering it. UX is part of it, TV shows, films, video games, basically all media is an expression of art and will have a small army of artists working on them.
- kumarvvr 6y agoAnother cool hack would be to generate a color palette paint generator. A smaller version of those used for house painting colors.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoYeah, it would be a cool demo for a pick-and-place machine.
- lm28469 6y agoBut then it wouldn't be the same kind of art anymore. Just like you can have a machine paint 50000 exact copy of Mona Lisa and you wouldn't even be able to sell them for the price of wood making up the frame
- mustyoshi 6y agoHow do you tell hand injected vs machine injected bubbles apart?
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoYou don't need to be able to tell them apart to value one at $15,000 and another at $15. Hand-injected and machine-injected history of a given bubble may not be a distinguishable property within the natural universe, but it's important to art collectors, in a similar way that the copyrighted or not-copyrighted status of bits gives them an invisible color to lawyers: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
- em-bee 6y agodidn't andy warhol manage to make valued art from prints?
- AndresAlla 6y agoYou mean something like https://www.robotmuralist.com/ https://www.robotmuralist.com/ but for bubblewrap instead of graffiti on walls? Lot of R&D could be shared, I guess.