prosthetic knowledge
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GIFPaint
Simple online browser-based image editor to create your own hand drawn GIF animations, which can be posted directly to your Tumblr blog:
A simple HTML5 animation application inspired by MacPaint, Deluxe Paint and MSPaint.
Created by James Hicks, if you have any feedback or bugs you can get in touch on Twitter or info (at symbol) gifpaint.com.
I’d also love to see any cool GIFs you make using GIFPaint and will reblog them to the GIFPaint Tumblog
Try it out for yourself here
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Cardboard Plotter
Handmade manual drawing machine by Niklas Roy made with simple materials - video embedded below:
This plotter is made entirely out of cardboard, welding rod, rubber bands, adhesive tape and super glue. The digital memory is a little book with plenty of different drawing codes, which are written down as coordinates. In this video I’m entering the first code, which makes the plotter draw “hello world”.
You can find out more about the project at Niklas’ blog here
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3Doodler
In case you missed this the past couple of days, an impressive handheld 3D printing pen, allowing to draw in three dimensions. Video embedded below:
Have you ever just wished you could lift your pen off the paper and see your drawing become a real three dimensional object? Well now you can!
3Doodler is the world’s first and only 3D Printing Pen. Using ABS plastic (the material used by many 3D printers), 3Doodler draws in the air or on surfaces. It’s compact and easy to use, and requires no software or computers. You just plug it into a power socket and can start drawing anything within minutes.
Oh, and it’s also the most affordable way to 3D print… by a looong way! With 3Doodler we’re making fun 3D creation accessible to everyone.
You can find out more at the project’s Kickstarter page here
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Hand Drawn Maze on A1 Paper Took 7 Years to Make
Via Spoon and Tamago:
Some people have hobbies. Other people are obsessive. But when the two cross paths, this is what you get. Japanese twitter user @Kya7y recently unearthed an incredibly detailed maze that her father created almost 30 years ago. When pressed for details, the father explained that he spent 7 years creating the map on A1 size paper, which is about 33 x 23 inches.
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Mind Out
A room-sized single-line drawing based on the flight pattern of a bee created with robotic drawing system:
Towards the end of 2012, as part of The Festival of the Mind in Sheffield, myself and a small team of technicians, coders and mathematicians developed a drawing system and put it to work. The robots drew one line pattern solutions, the shortest line possible, derived from theories on how bees fly from flower to flower. It ended up covering three walls and the floor of a twenty foot cube in one unbroken line.
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“Computing/Drawing With a Vintage Pen Plotter” by Carl Lostritto
Modern drawing experiments with older output technology creating abstract art:
This is the database of “Computing/Drawing With a Vintage Pen Plotter,” a project by Carl Lostritto. Drawings are organized by method, series, and run using the following syntax: Method-Series-Run. A “method” is an algorithmic approach to controlling the pen plotter and is the most general way to organize these drawings. Within each method, a “series” refers to a specific python code and/or plotter configuration. A run refers to one drawing within the series. Whether the drawing is re-plotted or generates a series of drawings, the run identifier keeps track of their production order over time.
The collection can be found here, with some examples of animations demonstrating techniques as well as videos performing the mechanical drawings.
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All Lovely Stuff - DRAWING MACHINE
London design brand creates cheap creative drawing machine with simple materials - video demonstration below:
A do-it-yourself way to make art! An oak cotton reel, peg, felt tip pen, rubber band and a small bit of wax is all that’s required to create this drawing machine that will inspire the Picasso in anyone. All materials are included in this self-assembly kit.
Obviously too late for Christmas, but more info to buy one can be found here
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Glow Threads
Interactive UV light responsive t-shirts which are commercially available:
Glow Thread shirts are the first interactive glow in the dark t-shirts. You are able to to draw and create custom designs using our UV keychain light and UV Laser. Our UV keychain light is included with every purchase which allows you to draw on our shirts by touching the UV light to the shirt and write whatever you want. Using the UV laser you can draw on the shirt from up to 40ft away. Unlike other Glow Thread “imitators” where you are limited to a silk screened rectangle to draw on, our Glow Thread shirts are fully customizable and you are able to draw on every piece of the t-shirt. This means there is NO silk screened area and you are able to draw on the front, back, sides and even the sleeves.
You can find out more and order one from Glow Threads here
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dePENd
A system designed to draw straight lines and perfect circles freehand - video embedded below:
Via DigInfo:
This table helps you to draw precise freehand circles and lines. It is under development by a group in the Yasuaki Kakehi Lab at Keio University.
By using a computer to control the XY position of a magnet under the surface of the table, it implements, on paper, drawing methods utilized in computer graphics.
“I’ll place an ordinary ballpoint pen on the table. Now, I can semi-automatically draw a precise circle, or a straight line, or an illustration prepared in advance. In other words, while I draw with the pen, this system lets me switch to accurate rendering like in computer graphics, such as drawing a precise circle, by assisting me with the pen.”
When drawing, you can use a regular ballpoint pen with a metal tip, or a digital pen. If you use a ballpoint pen, the position where you start drawing has to correspond with the origin on the XY grid, but if you use a digital pen, the system recognizes its location and you can start drawing from any position.
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Silk
Two highly-polished generative drawing web toys by Yuri Vishnevsky.
New Silk is symmetrical drawing - simple, yet the results are satisfying.
Silk turns your input into a beautiful flow that travels to the side.
More about the work can be found here - scroll down and you will see info and a link to an iOS app of this project.
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NEXT by Carlos Zuniga
Art series created in 2007 of hand-drawn portraits on pages of a telephone directory using the lines of names and numbers as a guide to mark making - a sort of pseudo-reverse text art.
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Recursive Harmony
Modular coding experiment by Forrest Oliphant uses popular online HTML drawing toy Harmony, turns drawings into animated fractals.
Try it out here
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D-L Alvarez
Early work from artist that has produced pencil-shaded digital drawings by hand, based on nostalgic scenes.
Selected work colections in this style are Closet, Rise, and Beau Soleil.
You can check the rest of the artist’s work here
[PS - I know some of the works have been featured around Tumblr before, but I still think it is worth another look]
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Chrome Web Lab: Sketchbots
Cloud Art?
Google teams up with the Science Museum, London with five experiments connecting your computer with installations - with Sketchbots, you can upload a photo of yourself and it will be drawn by a robot on sand and watch it performed via live webcam. Here is a video:
You can try it out for yourself here
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Doodle Tablecloth
Tablecloth with grid-paper pattern designed to be drawn on:
Don’t go thinking this tablecloth is just for kids- it would be just as fun at a dinner party or outdoor cookout. After you scribble and scrawl your masterpiece or menu and your guests/family have had their fill of fabric markers, throw the tablecloth into the washer and you’ll soon have a blank canvas for your next event.
