video painting

This very interesting art tool called the I/O brush allows you to paint with objects that you have recorded on video. It’s a normal paintbrush that has a small video camera embedded in its center so that it can pick up patterns, colors and movement of whatever you brush it over. So you can basically paint with animation and use anything you can film as your painting medium. Although I’m sure it’s hard to visualize from this description, it’s easily understandable with this hi-res quicktime video. The tool was developed by people in the MIT Media Lab. Neato.