Sandy Noble's Polargraphs are Based on a Polar Coordinate System
Meghan Young — June 30, 2011 — Unique
References: polargraph & fastcodesign
It is hard to be original anymore in the art world, yet Sandy Noble has devised a way to be original while also embracing the wave of the future. He has created a robotic system that sketches out stunning pixelated prints.
Although Sandy Noble's primitive robot was adapted to a similar system that was designed to create Arctic maps, his work is quite singular. Yet, since it is based on a polar coordinate system, Sandy Noble appropriately calls his work Polargraphs.
What I particularly like about Sandy Noble's Polargraphs is how there is chaos in the measured strokes of the robot's arm. Although programmed to parse a bitmapped image into polar coordinates, Sandy Noble sets it up purposely so that he never knows quite how each drawing will turn out.
Although Sandy Noble's primitive robot was adapted to a similar system that was designed to create Arctic maps, his work is quite singular. Yet, since it is based on a polar coordinate system, Sandy Noble appropriately calls his work Polargraphs.
What I particularly like about Sandy Noble's Polargraphs is how there is chaos in the measured strokes of the robot's arm. Although programmed to parse a bitmapped image into polar coordinates, Sandy Noble sets it up purposely so that he never knows quite how each drawing will turn out.
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