Droid Portraits
I have shared, of late, a great many pieces of artwork portraying droids. However, now I have a droid which creates artwork.
Salvador DaBot is a rather attractive droid, with his beret and mustache. He also has a talent for drawing human faces. In addition to looks and artistic talent, he has some communications abilities as well, making small conversation with his subjects to give them instruction and learn their name, which is added to the finished art.
The droid’s creator, Dr. Sylvain Calinon, has this to say about his work:
The Portraitist Robot recognizes human faces in its surroundings and extracts relevant characteristics from them. By using its uncanny artistic talent, it then draws portraits of the participants from the captured images by converting them into vector art and by using inverse kinematics to control the robot’s arm.
I do find Salvador quite charming. I wonder if he might manage my portrait.
