= Catherine The Creative =
= By Eric Lundquist =

http://www.robotgroup.net/eric/Catherine3_sm.jpg Catherine the Creative I - Collaborative effort with Anna Nedeau to make Robot created art! A [http://www.lynxmotion.com LynxMotion] arm programmed to grip a sponge brush, http://www.robotgroup.net/eric/Catherine4.jpg dab it into paint, and place random strokes across the easle. Some of the end results were sent to the organizer of the http://www.robotgroup.net/eric/art2d2postcard.jpg Art2-D2 art show in NYC.  He liked them so much, he had some of them framed and displayed at the show.  We even got a mention in the Village Voice!  Here is an [http://www.robotgroup.net/eric/Catherine1.jpg example] painting created by CtC. At the time my daughter CatherineLundquist was about 5 years old and they both seemed to have roughly the same artistic ability, hence the name.

http://www.robotgroup.net/eric/CtCSchool1.jpg Catherine the Creative II - CtC sheds her paintbrush for a Sharpie pen.  Initially based on the work of [http://www.lynxmotion.com/proj014.htm Jeppe Mikkelsen] but I didn't care for the code so I eventually replaced most of the inverse kinematics and image shaping with precomputed tables.