clever new drone draw
MIT's Clever New Drone Draws What You Do. Mostly
Humans have always used tools to create art, but paintbrushes, pens, and chisels don't have an agenda of their own; they bend to the will of the person wielding them. But a project by students at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group ponders what happens when a machine has a voice in the artistic process. In this case, the machine is a drone, and that drone is essentially a flying phantograph. As a human draws with a pen, a camera captures the motion and a computer communicates it to the drone, which mimics what the pen is drawing. In the video you see a person make a sweeping gesture across a canvas; the drone mirrors it, creating a similar mark on its own canvas.