See yourself? A Blind Self Portrait Machine

When is the last time you drew a self-portrait?  If you have not tried in a while, a easier way might be coming soon.

Two creative techies,  Kyle McDonald and Matt Mets have built a machine which can help you draw your own self portrait.  The ideas is that you keep your eyes shut while a a moving platform guides a pen in your hand to draw a self-portrait . A computer provides the “vision”  to track your face and generate a line drawing. The result is a machine-aided drawing of a self-portrait.

The device “Blind Self Portrait” was  installed for the first time at the NYC Resistor interactive show in May of this year which had a theme of Physical meets Digital.

You can see a video and read more about the device on Vimeo.

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Blind Self Portrait Machine on Vimeo

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Video of Blind Self Portrait Machine on Vimeo

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