An open archive of questions, tests and reflections.
5 PUBLICATIONS
One of the questions that arose while developing KIKAIMA X SUMI was whether I could identify and colour the enclosed regions of a composition. I wanted to work not only with lines, but also with surfaces and areas of colour. That raised a problem I hadn't given much thought to until then: what happens to negative space?
READ ↗When I finished building the KIKAIMA robot, I needed to see how it actually worked on paper. Until then, calibration tests consisted of small Arduino programs drawing lines at different pressures, squares, circles or strokes in which pressure increased and decreased progressively.
READ ↗KIKAIMA's first drawing test was a complete failure. After building the robot and developing the software required to interpret images, I decided to try it with a poster by an illustrator. The image had been converted correctly into a simplified line drawing, with a result I liked.
READ ↗One of the possibilities I am most interested in exploring with KIKAIMA is reproducing the same composition. Executing exactly the same instructions several times and observing how similar or different the results are.
READ ↗When I draw from an image, I make a series of decisions that are not necessarily present in it. I might give greater importance to one contour, simplify an area, remove details or use a thicker line to make a figure stand out. These decisions are part of my way of interpreting what I see. A photograph contains information about forms, light and contrast, but it contains no instructions on how it should be drawn.
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Algorithms, calibrations and technical replication instructions are not published.