Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble

Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:38PM (#26395453)

> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming.

A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by pimlottc on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:51PM (#26395520)

I agree with you. At the same time, I suspect that the act of filling each bubble by hand is an important part of the process for this artist.

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:00AM (#26397185)

That's exactly it; with art, the process is part of the product.

Because if you look at any picture objectively, you think "Anyone could do that", which is why a lot of people pull up their noses at art, and by extension, anyone pursuing a career as an artist.

But art where the process is part of it is just one of the many branches of the art world. A lot of people consume the arts on a regular basis without even considering it. UX is part of it, TV shows, films, video games, basically all media is an expression of art and will have a small army of artists working on them.

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by lm28469 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @07:49AM (#26398290)

But then it wouldn't be the same kind of art anymore. Just like you can have a machine paint 50000 exact copy of Mona Lisa and you wouldn't even be able to sell them for the price of wood making up the frame

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by mustyoshi on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:03AM (#26398378)

How do you tell hand injected vs machine injected bubbles apart?

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:04AM (#26398805)

You don't need to be able to tell them apart to value one at $15,000 and another at $15.

Hand-injected and machine-injected history of a given bubble may not be a distinguishable property within the natural universe, but it's important to art collectors, in a similar way that the copyrighted or not-copyrighted status of bits gives them an invisible color to lawyers: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by em-bee on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @02:30PM (#26402886)

didn't andy warhol manage to make valued art from prints?

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by layoutIfNeeded on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:06AM (#26397230)

Yeah, it would be a cool demo for a pick-and-place machine.

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by AndresAlla on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:22AM (#26398997)

You mean something like https://www.robotmuralist.com/ but for bubblewrap instead of graffiti on walls? Lot of R&D could be shared, I guess.

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Re:Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Pain... by kumarvvr on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:08AM (#26395588)

Another cool hack would be to generate a color palette paint generator. A smaller version of those used for house painting colors.

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