Imagekind Gallery RobotArt

Puppy

One of my earliest robotic works. The original is pastel on paper. Images from this time show my Asian calligraphy background more clearly than the cactus series.

Climbing

Robot generated art, using GIMPY2, a small walking robot that walks around the canvas with paint brushes to make the painting. This images uses cellular automata math to select and place cactus pads

Napolitos 3

Robot generated art, using GIMPY2, a small walking robot that walks around the canvas with paint brushes to make the painting. This images uses logrthmic spirals calulated in the robot as it walks. Perhaps my most popular image -- it has been reproduced in magazine and newspaper articles several times.

Conversation2

From my conversaton subseries. In addition to the growth pattern, the positions of the cactus pads can be seen as postures and attitudes.

Conversation7

From my conversaton subseries. In addition to the growth pattern, the positions of the cactus pads can be seen as postures and attitudes.

Triumph

Robot generated. The prickly pear cactus is a exemplar math related to living things and to art. Most important to me is that the prickly pear represents the triumph of the human spirit. It is able

Perservere

The original of this image is mixed media, with large circular colors from dried paint from the bowls I use as a palette collaged onto the canvas.

Wings

Robot generated using GIMPY2 a small walking robot. This images used stored vectors as an image source and palette knives for painting. The image scaling and placement were sent to the robot.

Deer1

Using recently developed figure capability of the robots to make another image from the desert - a petroglyph.

To Reach Beyond - Book Poster

Poster for my book which is available in Jan 2008.

CAM

CAM stands for Cerrulacean Acid Metabolism, the amazing photosynthesis process in cacti and other succulents. Unlike all other plants, there is no oxygen/CO2 gas exchange during cacti photosynthesis. There is an internal chemical change. Later, at night or cooler temperatures, the stoma open and gas exchange takes place. The painting is the subject of an article "Chance in Robotic Painting" in the December 2007 issue of YLEM Journal of Art and Science.

Opuntia Basilarius

Opuntia Basilarius is the scientific name of the Beaver Tail Prickly Pear Cactus. This painting is a linear calligraphic interpretation of the special characteristics of this plant. The Beaver tail has larger and much rounder pads that other prickly pear cacti. They also have some magenta coloration.

Rising

This painting shows the prickly pear's ability to form stalks in crowded and low light situations. Typically this occurs after the plant is 70 years old. This painting was published as part of an article in New Scientist magazine Dec 2006 This is a leading example of what I call Visual Jazz where the robot can see the previously painted image and reacts to it.

Silent Dancing

There is a species Opuntia Elongata that does have elongated arm like pads, although it usually has more than I used here. This is the first painting by Zeb4, my robot with the most advanced software. As you can see it can fill areas and figures as well as create textures within a given rectangle or figure.