Cybernetic Garden · arm composer prototype

Have the arm paint you

Stand on the mark in front of the arm. It will look for your face, take one photograph, and show you what it would paint before anything is painted. The photograph is never saved: only the dabs are, and only if you say yes.

Ready when you are

One press. Somebody at the arm clicks to start it, so nothing moves before a person standing there has seen that you are ready.

Print queue

checking

One queue for the whole machine. A portrait and a drawing somebody made with a finger are the same kind of job by the time the arm has them, and they are painted in the order they arrived.

Or draw one yourself

Drag a finger across the grid and put the dabs where you want them. Same queue, same two copies.

Draw my own

What happens to the photograph: it is never written down. It exists inside the machine for about a second, becomes 1260 cells of colour, and is gone. Saying no thanks leaves nothing behind, because there was never anything left to leave.