Computers are good at many things, but painting has always been considered a distinctly human skill. Creating texture, blending, shading—these are all things the human hand is very adept at doing (ok, ...

It's summertime and art shows have sprung out all over. Every time we go to one we see paintings that might have been done with a computer program. Some of them are, and they're often the best in the ...

Spray paint is a notoriously tricky medium to control with a reliable level of accuracy. Fortunately for would-be muralists everywhere, researchers have invented a "smart" spray paint system that can ...

[Nirav] painted this masterpiece by hand… with a little help from a computer. He calls it the semi-automatic paintbrush because you do need to move it over the canvas by hand, but a computer decides ...

The computer was science's best gift in the 20th century. Now, in the new century, whether or not people can use the computer and anything related to it is regarded as the standard. In June 1997, a ...