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Comment by jstanley | Hacker News Reader

I always wonder what the pen plotter is adding?

You can look at SVG lineart on the screen without plotting it, and if you really want it on paper you can print it on any printer.

And particularly:

> This was an experiment I would like to push further. I would like to reduce the feedback loop by connecting Claude directly to the plotter and by giving it access to the output of a webcam.

You can do this in pure software, the hardware side of it just adds noise.

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"You can do this in pure software, the hardware side of it just adds noise."

That "noise" changes the context, connects it to different parts of the training corpus.

Removing the "physical art" part would likely change the responses to be much more technical (because there is way more technical talk surrounding SVGs) and less art-critic (there is more art-critic talk around physical art).

This is art though. Whether you like the results or not, I'd say that the OP is using tools to make visual art but also that the process is part of the art as well. The process of art making doesn't have to be optimized - especially for the latest technology. We still paint when we have photography, we still make darkroom prints when we have color screens, etc.

Sure, you could just do it in software. Maybe it would produce something interesting though, to have that extra layer through the physical world?

It does. It makes for a more catchy title and feeds into illusions of it understanding something about the world.

Didn't it notice in the photo that the opacity of the lines was 100% IRL?

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