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Tom Lohre’s Quarterly Art Show

Focus of the Show: Paintings made by a Lego Robot

Permanently on view: Paintings I, Paintings II, Paintings III, Drawings

For Immediate Release:

Subject: Art Show
Title: Paintings made by a Lego Robot
Opening: Saturday, July 14th, 2007, 6:30 to 9PM
Presenter information: Tom Lohre, 619 Evanswood Place, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
Cell 513-236-1704, Home 513-861-4146, tom@tomlohre.com
Please publish web page: tomlohre.com
Venue information: Owner: Steve Lohre at Med+ Urgent Care occupational health services, 9549 Montgomery Rd. Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45242, 513-489-3737
just north of Montgomery Inn on the left,
please publish number, Montgomery Neighborhood
Brief Description: 18 years in the making, Tom Lohre will finally show paintings made by a robot.
Opening 6:30 to 9 PM July 14th, 2007 Closing September 1st
Event information: Name: Paintings Made by a Lego Robot
Public can call Tom Lohre at 513-236-1704 for more information
Free, No reservation needed. Children welcomed.
Opening: Saturday, July 14th, 6:30 to 9 PM, light refreshments served.
Show on display until September 1st, 2007
Med+ Urgent Care is a private emergency room.
Open M-F 8am-8pm
Sat.-Sun. 10am-6pm
Phone: 513-489-3737
Fax: 513-984-3796
E-Mail: office@medplusurgentcare.com
Web Site: www.medplusurgentcare.com

Image for publication http://tomlohre.com/images/mooney.jpg
Caption: A highly pixilated painting of Tom Mooney. The 8" x 10" painting is made up of 800 dots of eight different colors.

The Story:

In 1987 Tom started work on a machine that painted. First he developed a painting manner a machine could use then he used Lego's MindStorm Robotic system to build the machine to use the painting manner. On January 5th, 2007 at 9PM Tom cracked the computer code to write the program and spent January, February and March building the machine and writing the program. Come see art that is like no other till Oct .1st.

As it turns out the machine is like a lathe. It has to be attended and a 16" x 20" painting takes 9 hours to complete with 1540 individual dots. The machine goes to each spot, receives the color from the computer and applies it. Each painting starts as a very simple image where each pixel is one dot on the painting. The resolution of the dot is about 5/8" so the image is very difficult to see unless you step back about twenty feet. The image the computer uses is a very simplified image, distilling a image down to eight different colors. For a face the colors are medium blue, white, light yellow, medium tan flesh, medium red flesh, dark green, medium dark brown and dark brown. The colors are prepared ahead of time and applied one dot at a time while the robot addresses each place.


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just north of Montgomery Inn on the left

9549 Montgomery Rd.Ste 100, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 489-3737

Open M-F 8am-8pm, Sat.-Sun. 10am-6pm


 

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