In 1884, he completed his first major composition, Une baignade à Asnières, which was a great success in the contemporary art community. George Seurat had just developed the pictorial technique of "divisionism", also commonly known as pointillism.

This technique consists of juxtaposing small touches of colour on the canvas. Seen up close, the work seems to be composed of disordered dots of colour, but seen as a whole it gives life to more elaborate portraits or scenes. The dots take on their full meaning.

The computer vision technique known as segmentation is very similar in spirit to Seurat's divisionist art. Find out more in this podcast!

ROBERTA, the podcast:

We are specialists in artificial intelligence (AI) and we want to share our passion with you.

With this podcast Roberta, in honour of Roberta Wohlstetter, a pioneer of modern intelligence, we looked at the stories of those who have influenced or been influenced by AI.

This monthly podcast traces the stories of scientists, filmmakers, novelists, politicians and deciphers their connection to AI. 

Listen to previous episodes:

Episode #1 : Roberta Wohlstetter

Episode #2 : Stanley Kubrick

Episode #3 : Jules Verne

Episode #4 : Hannah Arendt et Hans Jonas

Episode #5 : Elizabeth McIntosh

Episode #6 : Eric Tabarly

Episode #7 : Alan Turing

Episode #8 : Ada Lovelace

Music credits : Boogie Belgique - Once Have I