Caricatron 2.0
It’s an undeniable reality that automation is fast replacing human labor in many sectors of the job market today. That’s why, when tasked with imagining a midway of the future for a window display to be featured at NYU’s Kimmel Center, I, along with my partners Lauren Race and Amitabh Shrivastava, set out to create a portal into a future in which the roles of carneys are performed by robots. What resulted was Caricatron, a robotic caricature artist of the future.
Caricatron is initiated once the user puts their hand on the touch capacitive button attached to the window.
Once initiated, Caricatron uses OpenCV to detect the users face.
Caricatron then detects the contours of the user's face, copies them to an SVG file and sends them to the AxiDraw plotter, which then draws the portrait to a touchscreen display for the user to see.
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