Van - Go - Bot

Input

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Live drawing preview

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Basic settings

These are the main controls you’ll usually want to adjust.

Canvas & source

Max dimension Blur radius Colors Layer blur Stroke width Seed

Style

Stroke style

Palette

Palette strategy Palette set Palette mode

Flow

Min spacing Max spacing Flow iterations Step size Max steps Ignore color

Underpainting

Enable underpainting

Strategy Colors Opacity Blur radius Stroke width scale Spacing scale

Advanced settings Less commonly used tuning controls

Flow Advanced Line tracing, spacing response, and stroke packing controls

Tensor blur passes Flow radius Spacing gamma Minimum tone Minimum steps Occupancy radius Collision radius scale Seed probability gamma Simplify epsilon Ignore color tolerance

Palette Advanced Color selection weighting and fixed-palette behavior

Color selection Palette fixed slots Palette neutral slots Palette adaptation strength Balance palette roles

Salience weights

Used when color selection is set to salience.

Edge weight Contrast weight Saturation weight Rarity weight

Underpainting Advanced Extra control over the broad lower pass

Layer blur radius Step scale Simplify scale

Top lighting

Adds highlight and shadow accent layers on top of the main drawing.

Enable top lighting

Strategy Shadow opacity Highlight opacity

Difference detail

Adds corrective detail layers based on what remains unmatched after the main render.

Enable difference detail

Opacity Threshold Stroke mode

Status

Live progress and render statistics.

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Van - Go - Bot

Pronounced /væn ɡoʊ bɑːt/ — “van go bot.”

Van - Go - Bot is a multimodal painting platform in development since 2009. It brings together software that creates vector-based artwork and hardware that turns those vectors into physical paintings, drawings, and plotted marks.

In the Van - Go - Bot studio, we use large-format, G-code-driven plotters, including custom OpenBuilds ACRO tables with purpose-built paint heads, to create canvases up to 60 × 40 inches using paints, inks, and other mark-making materials.

Working alongside human artists, Van - Go - Bot creates original physical artifacts: digital ideas translated into real-world gestures, strokes, surfaces, and objects.

Upload an image to begin, adjust the settings, and watch Van - Go - Bot translate your source into vector marks.