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Art That Reacts To The Patron's Love Or Hate.

It's a painting that smiles or frowns depending on how people react to it.
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Face recognition is getting pretty good. The hidden camera would register the viewer's reaction, furrowed brows and a frown being dislike, raised eyebrows and a thoughtful expression being approval.

These are averaged out over time and the painting changes.

It couldn't be a video screen though, it would have to be an actual oil painting. Guess you'd have magnetic particles in the fluid paint that you'd re-arrange as appropriate.

And to be clear, it wouldn't be immediate. It would have to be slow enough that you got this effect. (link)

Like that painting in the attic of that old fucker who sold his soul, what's his name.

doctorremulac3, Oct 13 2024

The transition would have to be unoticeable. https://www.youtube...watch?v=Ks4NwN-DEPQ
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Not this... https://www.youtube.../shorts/iRhYHeUOjxI
[doctorremulac3, Oct 20 2024]

Subtle like this. https://customercam...smiles-brainy-best/
First is somebody liking the picture, second is somebody hating on it. Even if not verbally. [doctorremulac3, Oct 20 2024]

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       I suppose the brute force approach would be to start with a flat surface with addressable pixels and then mess with it until it took on the shape of dried oil paint.   

       However, you might be able to achieve the effect more elegantly with a combination of thermochromic paints and very small electrical heating elements in the "canvas".   

       If a particular audience showed an inclination to dick with the work, it could look progressively angrier until it burst into flame.   

       After a dignified pause, concealed rollers would lower a fresh copy into the frame.
pertinax, Oct 15 2024
  

       A friend of mine makes large colour field paintings that subtly react and change in response to the presence of the heat emitted from people standing in front of them.
xenzag, Oct 15 2024
  

       Whoa! Now THAT is brilliant!   

       THAT is the kind of art AI won't replace. Human creativity.
doctorremulac3, Oct 15 2024
  

       Video screen is for the lazy answer. I like the challenge of finding the alternatives.   

       Dorian Gray.is that old guy.   

       A "cheap" way would be for there to be two paintings on different layers. One would become a bit less opaque somehow. Or an image is projected onto another image.
RayfordSteele, Oct 16 2024
  

       Perhaps a combination of "e-paper" tech & coloured ferro-fluid. Could allow the "look" of layered paint while controlling colour too.
neutrinos_shadow, Oct 20 2024
  

       Hmm. Varying amounts of ultraviolet light maybe? Although glowing or not glowing wouldn't achieve the subtle effect. Don't want it to be the Disney haunted mansion thing, as cool as those are.   

       For this to work I think it would be cool to have somebody go, "Hey, does that painting looks different when you look at it?" I thought the gal was happy, she looks sad now." So presumably you'd start with a very neutral Mona Lisa face.   

       Facial reactions are pretty interesting in their subtlety, saw a group of pictures of people with real smiles vs fake smiles and although it was clear which was which the subtlety was pretty notable.
doctorremulac3, Oct 20 2024
  

       //Video screen is for the lazy answer. I like the challenge of finding the alternatives.//   

       Exactly Ray, since this IS supposed to be something that grabs people's attention would anybody care about a video screen where the picture morphs for some reason? No, of course not. Wouldn't matter why it was changing, what was making it change, it would have very little mystery and therefore ability to create interest.   

       "It's a video that's changing for some reason. Next."   

       I'd take it one step further if I was in that art gallery. "Next is a video screen of something, I'll just skip that and go to the painting or sculpture that's next. I look at a screen all day for a living and for all the stuff the internet offers, I'm here at an art gallery to see something different, not yet another stupid screen."
doctorremulac3, Oct 23 2024
  
      
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