i was just thinking back to when i was an art student.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

jk the first lesson was "this is grownup paint. don't eat it."

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@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

[dcoderlt@ohai.social]

@halcy @aeva
the Jackson Ballock machine

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@aeva **** you i won't do what you tell me

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva which lesson was drawing a perfect circle by drawing a realistic portrait and then erasing off details?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ratsnakegames don't drink the turpentine either

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel that's like elementary school art class

[mmby@mastodon.social]

@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

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@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

[mmby@mastodon.social]

@halcy @aeva oh like recreating the photons impinging from the hemisphere - the entire radiant flux

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@aeva but it smells so good :(

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva 2nd lesson "got oil paint on your clothes? Too bad. There's only one thing you can do - trash 'em"

From then I did all my oil painting almost naked, like a crazy art obsessed caveman

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@kwramm i was able to wash the paint out of a pair of jeans with turpentine and then throw them in the wash and they were fine after that, but generally don't wear anything to the art studio that you'd mind being a little more colorful than before