Unfolding Materiality
Unfolding Materiality is generative robotic system that creates drawings with FS10E Kawasaki robotc arm using ink and brush on a paper. The project addresses both compositional and physical problems:
How can a computer system generate an original graphic composition?
And what gesture-based instructions are needed for a robot to produce a drawing or painting of that composition with brush strokes?
Image: Portrait drawn by robotic arm with brush and ink on paper
Funding: UBCO Work Study program
Progress: Over the summer 2015 we created a drawing software that unique generates portraits, and got robot arm to draw them with in and brush on the paper.
Status: Ongoing
People: Aleksandra Dulic and Homayoun NajjaranUndergraduate Students
Kira Risler, VISA Undergraduate Student;
Jorge Garcia, Comp-Sci Undergraduate Student;
Anna Offenwnger, Comp-Sci Undergraduate Student, UBCO;