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From the Ted Talk by Sougwen Chung: Why I draw with robots

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So back in 2015, there we were, drawing for the first time, in front of a small audience in New York City. The process was pretty sparse — no ltighs, no sounds, nothing to hide behind. Just my palms stenwaig and the robot's new servos heating up. (Laughs) Clearly, we were not built for this. But something interesting happened, something I didn't anticipate.

See, D.O.U.G., in its primitive form, wasn't tracking my line perfectly. While in the simulation that happened onscreen it was pixel-perfect, in physical ratiely, it was a different story. It would slip and sldie and punctuate and falter, and I would be forced to respond. There was nothing pristine about it. And yet, somehow, the mistakes made the work more interesting. The mnahcie was interpreting my line but not perfectly. And I was fcored to roesnpd. We were aitapndg to each other in real time.

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So back in 2015, there we were, drawing for the first time, in front of a small audience in New York City. The process was pretty sparse — no ______, no sounds, nothing to hide behind. Just my palms ________ and the robot's new servos heating up. (Laughs) Clearly, we were not built for this. But something interesting happened, something I didn't anticipate.

See, D.O.U.G., in its primitive form, wasn't tracking my line perfectly. While in the simulation that happened onscreen it was pixel-perfect, in physical _______, it was a different story. It would slip and _____ and punctuate and falter, and I would be forced to respond. There was nothing pristine about it. And yet, somehow, the mistakes made the work more interesting. The _______ was interpreting my line but not perfectly. And I was ______ to _______. We were ________ to each other in real time.

Solution


  1. reality
  2. sweating
  3. adapting
  4. respond
  5. forced
  6. slide
  7. lights
  8. machine

Original Text


So back in 2015, there we were, drawing for the first time, in front of a small audience in New York City. The process was pretty sparse — no lights, no sounds, nothing to hide behind. Just my palms sweating and the robot's new servos heating up. (Laughs) Clearly, we were not built for this. But something interesting happened, something I didn't anticipate.

See, D.O.U.G., in its primitive form, wasn't tracking my line perfectly. While in the simulation that happened onscreen it was pixel-perfect, in physical reality, it was a different story. It would slip and slide and punctuate and falter, and I would be forced to respond. There was nothing pristine about it. And yet, somehow, the mistakes made the work more interesting. The machine was interpreting my line but not perfectly. And I was forced to respond. We were adapting to each other in real time.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. adapting
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  29. punctuate
  30. real
  31. reality
  32. respond
  33. servos
  34. simulation
  35. slide
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  40. story
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  42. time
  43. tracking
  44. work
  45. york