# Blind Self Portrait - machine-aided drawing

While the visitor keeps their eyes shut, a moving platform guides a pen in their hand to draw a self-portrait, using computer vision to track their face and generate a line drawing. The result is a machine-aided drawing, a self-portrait you could never draw.

Here we're testing an early version that moves about a half or third the speed of the more recent versions. "Blind Self Portrait" is a collaboration between Matt Mets and Kyle McDonald, installed for the first time at the NYC Resistor interactive show interactiveshow2012.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount Installed: vimeo.com/44489751 Photos: flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/sets/72157629813858248/

Source: github.com/kylemcdonald/BlindSelfPortrait

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Kyle McDonald
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blind_Self_Portrait_-_machine-aided_drawing.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Kyle McDonald
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/86867011?play=1)