In the history of art, there are sculptors who left their mark like few others. Names like those of Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, Käthe Kollwitz, Kotaro Takamura and Augusta Savage, from different eras, are part of this Olympus. Now the Artificial intelligence he works with his creations to launch a new project.
is the “Impossible Statue” a spectacular work of steel driven by the Swedish company Sandvik.
engineering group in mining and rock excavation and processingSandvik stands as one of the most important companies in its field worldwide.
And riding on the wave of artificial intelligence, by the hand of the digital artist Richard Luciani created this “Impossible Statue”.
The designer used Artificial Intelligence Midas, that makes precise estimates on any flat image to convert it into 3D. Luciani fed the AI with the best works of Michelangelo, Rodin, Kollwitz, Takamura and Savage to carry out your idea.
Works like David and Moses by Michelangelo, the Thinker of Rodin, the Mother with her dead son of Kollwitz, The maid of Takamura and the young man, of Savage, are some of those that served as inspiration for Artificial Intelligence.
Thus was born the “Impossible Statue” a person who has the world in his hands.
The challenge of how to make the “Impossible Statue”, with the work of Artificial Intelligence
According to Sandvik, elements were only added to make the sculpture more human, as poses, generating a fabric with flight and folds.
“The complexity meant that Verification was a must.” said Henrik Loikkanen, a machining process developer at Sandvik Coromant, who together with machining and CAM specialist Jakob Pettersson led the team of Sandvik machining experts that carried out the work.
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“There is a lot of trial and error and that is done digitally, before machining. The simulation ensured that we were able to achieve the features we wanted when making the statue and that there were no clashes”, he stressed.
At the moment, the sculpture is located at the Sandvik headquarters in Sweden. It is not known what they will do with it to further spread its beauty (a tour of the most renowned museums in Europe, for example), but the result is extraordinary as well as the route that led to it.
