aevaMar 13
i was just thinking back to when i was an art student. one of the first things we learned about in painting 101 was the rendering equation. the professor wrote it on the chalk board and we all sat there awestruck, marveling at its elegance and brilliance
Show threadhalcy​ 

@aeva now I'm just thinking it would be very funny to build a machine that fires balls of paint at the canvas from all hemispherical angles

it wouldn't produce good looking or most likely not even anything interesting that's just not how paint works. i just think it would be funny

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Show threadDCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦Mar 13
@halcy @aeva
the Jackson Ballock machine
Show threadmmbyMar 13

@halcy @aeva I think this could actually work - and it would be even better if it wasn't programmed but remotely operated by a painting tool - something on the level of WigglyPaint: limited palette, single brush size

Edit: and then you 'replay' the original remote inputs and make a limited amount of unique copies - then treat machine and computer with a sledgehammer and burn it

Show threadhalcy​ Mar 13
@mmby @aeva i was thinking literally at a single point, as a bit. if you want to actually paint something, I recall there was a mythbusters video where they paintballed the mona lisa
Show threadmmbyMar 13
@halcy @aeva oh like recreating the photons impinging from the hemisphere - the entire radiant flux
Show threadbobMar 13
@halcy @aeva what do you call the inverse of a random lens?