THINKING THROUGH DRAWING: PRACTICE INTO KNOWLEDGE

THINKING THROUGH DRAWING: PRACTICE INTO KNOWLEDGE 107

Patrick Tresset and Frederic Fol Leymarie

constant use of visual feedback during the drawing
activity. It will also have a priori knowledge of what
a face is, and how to represent it.

Footnotes

1 The production of computational abstract art
works has been far more prolific (Whitelaw,
2004), but covers a too wide range to be as rel-
evant to perception and our attempt to open the
window on the artist’s mind.

2 Refer to Simon Colton’s research at Imperial Col-
lege London on emotionally driven painterly
renderings: http://www.thepaintingfool.com.

3 http://www.robotis.com

4 ROS, Robotic Operating System, http://www.ros.
org

5 YARP, Yet Another Robotic Platform, http://eris.
liralab.it/yarp/

6 http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt09/

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Figure 4. Sketch of Stella by Paul the robot,

Tenderpixel Gallery, London, U.K., June 2011.

Figure 5. Sketches series by Paul, Tenderpixel

Gallery, London, June 2011.