algorithmic physical penplotter drawings

algorithmic generated pen plotter drawings - Tiago Charters

machine drawings, seeded from 3D models, images, and photographs

Mark-making lines are drawn to mimic the process of hand drawing. Sketches are generated by image segmentation, filtering, shape selection and depiction, relying on a personal and physical understanding of human visual perception.

As children, many of us spent our time making marks, scratches with BIC pens and paper, results that we would later call drawings. We debated the lines and were led by them: they were part of us but strangely independent. We did this for ourselves, out of curiosity and the desire to leave a mark on the world; only much later did we realize that there was an audience for our experiences. From the outside, or after some time, it seemed that our ignorance and lack of coordination limited what we could achieve or do, but the lines between habit and invention, accident and design, did not yet exist. We explored a territory beyond language and the intentions we would learn later as adults when, wishing to recover our childhood expressiveness, we envied that creative freedom.

Already as adults, pen and paper drawings often have the qualification of sketches, or studies, things that are done and then thrown away. They are often strange or regressive, parallel works that are executed in the margins of the supporting paper or main work, or on the sidelines of an activity in which one participates, a work meeting, or on the edge of a notebook, a form of unauthorized escapism, an automatic flight, a necessary distraction that imposes itself and illuminates.

study: self-incomplete
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: self-incomplete
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: self-incomplete
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: self-incomplete
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: self-incomplete
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: self-incomplete
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study: in-motion
BIC ballpoint pen on paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xxvii
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study xxvi
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xxv
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xxiv
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xxiii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xxii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xxii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xxi
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xx
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xix
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xviii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xviii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xviii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xviii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xvii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xvi
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xv
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study xiv
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 240g) 2025 - signed on verso
study xiii
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study xii
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study xi
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study x
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study ix
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study viii
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study vii
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study vi
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study v
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study iv
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study iii
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study ii
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study i
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on the street i
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city view
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man standing
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man standing
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ceiling lamp
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italian girl
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zora ii
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zora i
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self
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window ii
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window ii
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window i
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door in blue i
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curved
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a door i
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a door ii
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a door iii
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2 3s
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praça do Chile, Lisboa
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praça do Chile, Lisboa
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shades
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at the corner
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menorca
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i went to the woods
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(in)visible city
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(in)visible city
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Chelas
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a city
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half a city
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workers
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abandoned ii
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abandoned i
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woman
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construct
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interrupt
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flood
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trees in black
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sea in black
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man and tree
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self
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self
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pen plotter plotting
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cables
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ivy
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city building
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2 trees
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postcard
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ruin facade ii
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ruin facade i
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it is what it is
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door
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facade ii
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facade i
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abandoned
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incomplete iii
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incomplete ii
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incomplete i
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the house we live in
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city iii
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city ii
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city i
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feira da ladra
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country house
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another tree
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flood
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i went to the woods
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 200g) 2024 - signed on verso
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winter tree
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 200g) 2024 - signed on verso
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balcony
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 200g) 2024 - signed on verso
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walking by ii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 200g) 2024 - signed on verso
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praça do Chile, Lisboa (unsharp)
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 200g) 2024 - signed on verso
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another tree
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at the beach ii
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at the beach i
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looking
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street
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by the lake
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at the corner ii
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 200g) 2024 - signed on verso
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water mill ii
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water mill
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save what you can
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light
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other path
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crain
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after the storm
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after the fire
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rocky sea
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at the park
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fruit tree
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que Seurat, Seurat
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river
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water tower
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winter is comming
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waiting
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tree
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flood
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walking by
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train to nowhere
BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano paper (A4, 200g) 2024 - signed on verso
100€buy