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Montreal-based startup Acrylic Robotics specializes in using AI-powered robots to make near identical copies of original paintings. This requires a digital system where artists can track all of their brush strokes digitally, and once uploaded, the robot then emulates the original painting using brush attachments.
Samsung Frame TVs can now display artwork from New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art including treasured pieces from the American Wing, Asian Art, Egyptian Art, European Paintings, Islamic Art and more. Those who own a The Frame set, a 4K Smart TV boasting a billion shades of color and a picture frame bezel, can head on over to the Samsung Art Store today to begin downloading.
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There’s Stable Doodle, and then the all-new Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) 1.0. Unlike previous text-to-image AI models, this one will be hosted on Amazon Bedrock, the fully managed service from Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) that provides access to foundation models from leading AI startups via an API.
NVIDIA’s GauGAN is a nice tool for artists, but Stable Doodle is a web-based app that uses a kind of deep generative artificial neural network to transform random sketches into art using text prompts. More specifically, the tool uses Stable Diffusion XL, paired with a conditional control solution to turn both the sketch and text prompt into real images.
Bill Gates has a wall-mounted periodic table in his office, while maker Alexander Klöpping gets the front page of The New York Times delivered to him daily on Project E Ink. This 32″ E-ink display by Visionect is Wi-Fi enabled, which means that it can load web pages, or in this case, a PDF version of the NYT’s front page.
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Before Midjourney AI v5, most artificial intelligence tools just weren’t able to generate photorealistic human hands due to their complicated geometry and their lack of universal collection of lines or shapes it can use to identify the shape. This version was trained using Google Cloud’s v4 TPUs with Deepmind’s JAX, as well as inference running on large GPU clusters.
Sky Burkson, a talented hand-cut miniature artist, recreated Elden Ring‘s Leyndell with paper, toothpicks, wool and a few other supplies. In the game, Leyndell sits at the base of the Erdtree and is home of the Golden Order. It’s ruled by Morgott the Veiled Monarch where Leyndell Knights patrol the streets, with Perfumers and Pages aiding them.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Automobili Lamborghini, the automaker teamed up with Japanese artist IKEUCHI to create the Lamborghini Huracan STO Time Chaser_111100 supercar, inspired by his passions for cyberpunk and robot anime. It encapsulates IKEUCHI’s vision of past, present and future through the lens of Lamborghini’s evolution, complete with a graphics card-equipped PC case on the rear engine bonnet.
An innovative ROBOTOR robot may soon take the place of real artists, as it’s capable of carving intricate marble sculptures in days rather than months. Called the 1L, this robotic arm of sorts can turn work from real-life artists, such as Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan, into marble sculptures. It’s not 100% perfect, as the human touch makes all the difference, since there are always imperfections.
