It’s nearly hard to believe, but now there is a way to paint a perfect portrait in less than twenty seconds. The new invention from British-based company, The Portrait Studio, allows users to easily paint a perfect portrait of themselves or anyone else in less than twenty seconds using the simple brush strokes of an artist.
The technology works by painting in layers, allowing the user to customize their portrait as it is being painted. It is so simple that even a child can use this new technology.
This product was created by entrepreneur Jonathan Rogers and his team at The Portrait Studio. The team is made up of former top executives from big companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Procter & Gamble. They have combined their expertise in the field of marketing and technology to make a better product that will be able to change the way people around the world create their own personal portraits.
This technology can help you to exchange your old wall art for new one. You would like to have some new portrait of your children or pet but you are very busy person and you just don’t have time to hire a painter. This is where this technology comes in handy. You can get perfect portrait in seconds with the stroke of a brush. It is such a simple and fast process that is hard to believe until you see it with your own eyes.
Thingiverse, the open source site for 3D printing enthusiasts, has created a “3D Portrait Maker” that allows users to take a picture of someone and turn it into a bust in less than twenty seconds (however long it takes for someone to sit down and pose). The process is simple: Users upload their own photo and then select from several pre-completed templates based on that photo—for example, if someone’s face is covered by hair, they can select the template with hair so the software knows what to leave out. There are currently eight templates available, ranging from simple faces to more complicated ones with multiple colors. After selecting a template from the site, users print their creation on any 3D printer available.
Our entry today could be the world’s first-ever “perfectly painted portrait.” It was created by a machine.
Okay, so those words don’t exactly sound like an endorsement for a new art form, but hear us out.
The portrait was painted by the appropriately named Painting Robot, a piece of software and hardware that can generate a complete picture in just seconds. And it does so with such accuracy and speed that it might, in fact, be the future of painting.
This technology isn’t brand new—it was created by an artist named Marius Watz back in 2014—but we are now living in a glorious age when it has finally been put to practical use. The Painting Robot was recently used at Paris’ Louvre museum to paint this portrait of Georges Braque:
“Anybody can paint, but not everybody can paint well,” said Robin Schwartz, the founder of Smartbrush.
Smartbrush uses an algorithm to give the creative touch of a painter to anyone. It is a new technology that enables painters to transform their photos into a portrait in seconds.
The app is easy to use and does not require any special skills to create a painting.
It has three main features:
Upload Your Photo: you can upload your photo from your phone, or take one directly from within the app itself.
Edit: You start by adding some basic details such as background and color schemes using the intuitive brushes and tools provided by the app.
Order: Once you are happy with the result, you can order your painting for $49.95 or download it and share it with your friends on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. The print quality is up to A3, which makes it perfect for framing!
Jia Jia, a robot from Chinese company Artificial Intelligence (A.I) Technology, recently painted portraits of several world leaders during the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party in Beijing. Unable to paint on its own, the robot relied on its human handlers to guide it in its “painting” process.
This isn’t the first time that Jia Jia has painted though. The robot is capable of painting portraits in a matter of seconds by using its two mechanical arms to hold a brush and dip it into paint. In front of an audience at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, Jia Jia painted former US President Barack Obama’s portrait in merely three minutes.
The robot’s creators say that they hope to eventually be able to produce autonomous robots that can make art with no human interference whatsoever.
“What I’ve been trying to do is take a lot of the techniques that have been used for centuries in art and see how we can automate them,” says Jonathan Rossiter, an artist who has been working on this project. “I wanted to take the human out of the process.”
Rossiter’s new portrait machine is impressive. It uses a webcam, a projector, and a computer to create paintings that are almost indistinguishable from those produced by a person. The process takes only about 20 seconds from start to finish – much faster than traditional oil paintings, which can take weeks or months. And because it’s fully automated, it runs 24/7 without rest.
The portrait machine works by tracking the subject’s head and projecting images onto it. The result is lifelike portraits similar in style to those painted by sites like Pixels By Numbers (which come out looking like bad Photoshopped pictures). Rossiter himself says he was attracted to technology because of his fear of the human touch: “When I see a painting that looks like it’s been painted by an old master or [a] Renaissance artist, I’m always very suspicious,” he told BBC News. “I’m always wondering how they did that.”
This innovation is reminiscent of another recent invention –
The artist, Sam Park, is a former patent agent who quit his job to paint full-time. The portrait technology was invented by a team of engineers from the University of Texas at Austin.
I asked Park what it would take to get his portrait-painting technology into homes and he told me it was going to be a few years before that happens. He’s currently working on a Kickstarter campaign to fund new equipment and said the first version of his product will be much smaller and more portable so people can travel with it. Park also told me he has been in contact with the Wyss Institute and they are interested in purchasing his technology so it can be used further with future projects and studies they have planned.
Truly instant portraits could be done from photos on phones or tablets using the tech as well.*