Converting Art to Data

There is something gross about breaking a masterpiece down into statistics, but there is also something profoundly beautiful about it. 

Reproduced Cezanne's Houses at the L'Estaque with one of my painting robots using a combination of AI and personal collaboration.  One of the neat things about using the robot in these recreations, is that it saves each and every brush stroke. I can then go back and analyze the statistics behind the recreation.  Here are some quick visualizations...

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It is weird to think of something as emotional as art, as data.  But the more I work with combining the arts with artificial intelligence, the more I am beginning to think that everything is data. 

Below is the finished painting and an animation of each brush stroke.

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