# Impasto: an AI co-pilot for paintings

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Ahmed Sultan](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/neural_mind)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/ship-it-mind/impasto
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/Sk-66SUc20M
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4018

Impasto is a studio co-pilot for palette-knife painters. It covers the whole way from an idea to a finished canvas.

Impasto painting means thick paint, laid on with a knife, with every color mixed by hand. Getting from the picture in your head to the canvas is mostly guessing: will it look right on the wall, which colors do I need and how much, how do I mix them, where do I start, and am I still on track halfway through?

The painter says or types what they want to paint and can add a photo of their wall and some of their own paintings. Impasto paints three concepts in their style and hangs them on the wall photo at real size, and the painter changes them by chatting. For the chosen concept it finds each color band and turns its area into grams of paint and paste. It works out how to mix each color from common acrylic tubes, then writes the steps in order, each with a picture of how the canvas should look after it. While painting, the painter checks in with a photo of a step, a bowl of mixed paint or the whole canvas. Impasto compares it with the plan and says what to fix, such as which tube to add and how much.

I built it for my wife Yara, who paints impasto as a hobby.

Live demo: https://impasto.projectrunning.com/?invite=2c6d4edb16afff1ac2e62d704be07ce8

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