FRIDA makes brush strokes to begin a painting
FRIDA takes about an hour to learn how to use the paintbrush and specific brush strokes before creating the art—which is done by humans sending a text description or by the user uploading a photo to inspire its style. Schaldenbrand and the FRIDA team are also testing music as a directive, such as ABBA’s song, Dancing Queen.
Although FRIDA’s artwork is impressive, Schaldenbrand cautioned in a press release sent to Gizmodo, “FRIDA is a robotic painting system, but FRIDA is not an artist.”
“FRIDA is not generating the ideas to communicate. FRIDA is a system that an artist could collaborate with. The artist can specify high-level goals for FRIDA and then FRIDA can execute them.”
