(N.Morgan) Imagine if you could paint a picture with lights. You could create anything, just by a press of a few buttons. It is now a reality, creating light sculptures via a robot, by Everyware. This robot named Luxo  spins and waves a single arm to paint 3-D light paintings that resemble streaks from fireworks! An odd machine, animated by custom software created by Everyware designers Hyunwoo Bang and Yunsil Heo.

The two designers created Luxo to move based on a pre-choreographed path. On the tip of the robot’s arm is a true color LED. As the device begins to dance and the LED blinks and changes color, a camera captures the movement. It’s the digital, invisible equivalent of a painter wielding a paintbrush to a canvas. “For us, we’re more interested in how the photos leave traces on the imagined surface,” the designers explain. “We tried to show the beauty of photography through an autopsy of it.”

Watching Luxo move is mesmerizing. Though it’s clearly a robot, its movements are similar to the fluid motion of a living organism. Band and Heo say this is a result of using natural materials like rosewood. “Unlike steel structures, wooden frames and joints are a little bit loose and even change their forms by room temperature and humidity,” he says. “They’re like living creatures.”

Luxo from everyware.kr on Vimeo.