https://techxplore.com/ en-us Tech Xplore internet news portal provides the latest news on electronics, technology, and engineering. Artists are always looking for new ways to create and express themselves. A growing trend is the use of multiple layers of see-through materials, such as Plexiglas, to create paintings that have real depth, transforming two-dimensional images into three-dimensional illusions that feel more realistic and lifelike. But can these layered works be made even more immersive? https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-technology-holograms-art-life.html Computer Sciences Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:29:48 EDT news676718977 A new cement-based paint can cool down the building by sweating off the heat. The cooling paint, named CCP-30, was designed by an international team of researchers and features a nanoparticle-modified porous structure composed of a calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel network. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-passive-cooling-10x-energy.html Engineering Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:10:02 EDT news669466909 Art restoration takes steady hands and a discerning eye. For centuries, conservators have restored paintings by identifying areas needing repair, then mixing an exact shade to fill in one area at a time. Often, a painting can have thousands of tiny regions requiring individual attention. Restoring a single painting can take anywhere from a few weeks to over a decade. https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-hours-ai-generated-mask.html Hi Tech & Innovation Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:00:17 EDT news668766803 The summer of 2024 has been another scorcher, with the highest temperature ever recorded by NASA on July 22 and the city of Phoenix reaching a milestone of 100 straight days of 100 degrees. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-09-cooling-key-planet-temperature-dial.html Engineering Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:36:55 EDT news645107810 Nissan showed Tuesday what it called a "cool paint" to keep people inside vehicles cooler, although the coating is six times thicker, making commercialization still a challenge. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-08-japan-nissan-cool-cars-drivers.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 06 Aug 2024 04:19:03 EDT news642136734 The rapid advancement of deep learning algorithms and generative models has enabled the automated production of increasingly striking AI-generated artistic content. Most of this AI-generated art, however, is created by algorithms and computational models, rather than by physical robots. https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-human-real-humanoid-robot.html Robotics Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:10:01 EST news627904878 Emissions from copper-based antifouling paints are a well-known environmental problem. As much as 40% of copper inputs to the Baltic Sea come from antifouling paints on ships and leisure boats. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-eco-friendly-effective-fouling-ships-boats.html Energy & Green Tech Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:00:03 EST news590068801 Using X-rays, artificial intelligence and 3D printing, two UCL researchers reproduced a "lost" work of art by renowned Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, 135 years after he painted over it. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-x-rays-ai-3d-lost-van.html Hi Tech & Innovation Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:46:00 EDT news581345150 Graduate students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built the first graffiti-painting robot system that mimics the fluidity of human movement. Aptly named GTGraffiti, the system uses motion capture technology to record human painting motions and then composes and processes the gestures to program a cable-driven robot that spray paints graffiti artwork. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-gtgraffiti-robot-human.html Robotics Wed, 08 Jun 2022 04:21:12 EDT news573880825 Imagine focusing on one thing so well that you can control its movement. Now, imagine mentally selecting colors and shapes to create an abstract image—a brain painting. USF computer scientist Marvin Andujar is harnessing the power of concentration and art to develop a new brain-computer interface (BCI) prototype and help study participants use their brain like never before. The goal is to introduce a novel treatment option for individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by tapping directly into their brain activity. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-brain-painting-method-adhd-treatment.html Computer Sciences Fri, 20 May 2022 01:53:27 EDT news572230400 Her eyes squint to sharpen her focus while her mouth curves into a smile and her fingers push down on the controller, sending a baseball flying through the air. For the past year, 14-year-old Emerson Allen has patiently waited for this moment when she would finally be able to play ball with her classmates. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-senior-students-ball-launcher-device.html Engineering Mon, 16 May 2022 16:54:03 EDT news571938841 A team of scientists and art historians at Case Western Reserve University say they have used tools of artificial intelligence (AI) to distinguish the individual brushstrokes of one painter from another. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-neural-network-distinguish-characteristic-individual.html Computer Sciences Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:35:36 EST news558696933 Perspective is the technique that enables objects to be represented in three dimensions on a flat surface by giving them an effect of depth. During the Renaissance, linear perspective revolutionized Italian painting, notably with Giotto and the notions of convergence points and the horizon line. In 1425, the architect Filippo Brunelleschi invented the first augmented reality device called Tavoletta, a wooden panel with an eyepiece. Finally, Leon Battista Alberti confirmed these notions in 1436 in his treatise De Pictura, in which he evoked orthogonals meeting at a single point. The Italian painters were thus considered to be a step ahead of their Flemish counterparts. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-08-secrets-perspective-jan-van-eyck.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:12:21 EDT news548507519 A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in Korea and one in Estonia has found a way to use math to study paintings to learn more about the evolution of art history in the western world. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how they scanned thousands of paintings and then used mathematical algorithms to find commonalities between them over time. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-math-evolution-art-history.html Other Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:50:01 EDT news521883277 What if you could instruct a swarm of robots to paint a picture? The concept may sound far-fetched, but a recent study in open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI has shown that it is possible. The robots in question move about a canvas leaving color trails in their wake, and in a first for robot-created art, an artist can select areas of the canvas to be painted a certain color and the robot team will oblige in real time. The technique illustrates the potential of robotics in creating art, and could be an interesting tool for artists. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-robot-swarms-art.html Robotics Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:39:48 EDT news521861980 Dr. Nathaniel Davis from Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington's School of Chemical and Physical Sciences says he and his research team are at a significant turning point in their solar power research. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-09-solar-power.html Energy & Green Tech Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:05:55 EDT news520506350 A research team led by UCLA materials scientists has demonstrated ways to make super white paint that reflects as much as 98% of incoming heat from the sun. The advance shows practical pathways for designing paints that, if used on rooftops and other parts of a building, could significantly reduce cooling costs, beyond what standard white 'cool-roof' paints can achieve. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-07-team-ways-cool-super-white.html Energy & Green Tech Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:03:08 EDT news513514979 Applying a coat of paint on the walls of a house may soon help to heat it, saving energy and reducing CO2 emissions. It could also clean the air that we breathe, breaking down chemicals and pollutants, and eliminating harmful pathogens. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-01-pollutants-homes.html Energy & Green Tech Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:05:22 EST news498459897 Two paintings up for auction in New York highlight a growing interest in artificial intelligence-created works—a technique that could transform how art is made and viewed but is also stirring up passionate debate. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-11-art-ai-computer-generated-york-sale.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 13 Nov 2019 04:33:29 EST news492842001 Artificial intelligence has been used to analyse high-resolution digital X-ray images of the world famous Ghent Altarpiece, as part of an investigative project led by UCL. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-ai-uncovers-master.html Computer Sciences Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:00:01 EDT news486363479 When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer who for the first time characterized the vibrational effect of the pressure field beneath one of these tiny hypersonic turbulent spots. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-05-high-speed-hypersonic-flight.html Engineering Thu, 02 May 2019 10:10:07 EDT news476008152 Artificial intelligence has been showing us many ish tricks as apers of human-created art, and now a team of researchers have impressed AI watchers with PaintBot. They have managed to unleash their AI as a capable mimic of the old masters. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-04-paintbot-deep-student-mimics-masters.html Computer Sciences Mon, 29 Apr 2019 05:49:34 EDT news475735719 A team of researchers at St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (ETU-LETI) and Ural Federal University (URFU) has recently created a new robotic setup for realistic grayscale painting. The project's lead developer, Dr. Artur Karimov, is a professional artist fascinated by the possibility of exploring new frontiers in art using technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2019-03-robot-artistic-grayscale.html Robotics Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:30:02 EST news470909249 The empty frames hanging inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum serve as a concrete reminder of the world's biggest unsolved art heist. While we may never uncover those original masterpieces, a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) might be able to help, with a new system aimed at designing reproductions of paintings. https://techxplore.com/news/2018-11-faithfully-remake-favorite-d-deep.html Machine learning & AI Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:01 EST news462642867 Walls are what they are—big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart infrastructure that sense human touch, and detect things like gestures and when appliances are used. https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-job-walls-sensors-interactive-surfaces.html Engineering Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:15:46 EDT news443718936 x(Tech Xplore)—Many people walking through the paint department of a store will be thinking of just that, picking up some paint with names like Comfy Cabbage or Sand Dune and getting out. If you are Janelle Shane, though, you are a research scientist who can't see what's being presented as paint names without also wondering how artificial intelligence can turn up the volume. https://techxplore.com/news/2017-05-neural-network.html Computer Sciences Mon, 22 May 2017 04:40:01 EDT news414645590 (Tech Xplore)—This week there are a number of interesting words and phrases to think about that lead us to what researchers in California are exploring. Welcome, first off, to a post called prosthetic knowledge. https://techxplore.com/news/2017-04-monet-worlds-realistic-photos-berkeley.html Computer Sciences Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:30:01 EDT news410613695 How do humans interpret and understand art? The nature of artistic style, seemingly abstract and intuitive, is the subject of ongoing debate within art history and the philosophy of art. https://techxplore.com/news/2016-06-art.html Computer Sciences Tue, 07 Jun 2016 09:18:04 EDT news384509867 What would you say to having your selfie turned into a Van Gogh or Matisse painting? That's exactly what you can do with DeepArt, an algorithm that can generate a digital painting from any photo. It is now available for the first time on a platform designed at EPFL. https://techxplore.com/news/2016-04-deepart-portrait.html Computer Sciences Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:35:54 EDT news379578938