TwelvePixels - Drawing on a mobile phone
How we draw depends on the tools we have: drawing with a pencil is very different from drawing with a brush. The TwelvePixels project attempts to create a new type of digital "brush", a set of techniques and algorithms that allow us to draw with very simple input devices, such as the twelve keys of the mobile phone.
Creating such a "brush" leads to a whole new range of creative applications that can be enjoyed anywhere casually without having to use a PC. Examples include, but are not limited to, annotating digital photographs taken on a mobile phone, creating personalized emoticons for text communication, drawing characters for mobile games, and sharing all this new content with millions of other people.
Demo Video / Workshop Video
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News
Sony ExploraScience Exhibition
TwelvePixels is featured in an exhibition entitled 'Open Science' at the Sony ExploraScience centre in Tokyo. It runs from July 12th - September 23rd 2008, more information here (Japanese).
Posted: 16 July, 2008
Drawings
Keep an eye on the latest drawings created with TwelvePixels by visiting our gallery. Images here are created by users and submitted live.
Research
TwelvePixels: Drawing and Creativity on a Mobile Phone (PDF 628K)
A paper presented at CHI 2008 detailing the rationale and development of TwelvePixels.
Contact
Developed by Ivan Poupyrev (Sony CSL)
& Karl D.D. Willis (University of Tsukuba)
Copyright © 2008, Sony CSL. Contact poup[at] csl [dot] sony [dot] co [dot] jp