Promptac toolkit lets users modify AI designs with hand gestures and real-world materials

Royal College of Art graduate Zhaodi Feng has created an interactive toolkit named Promptac, which allows users to input prompts to AI image generators using hand movements rather than text. The kit includes a fingertip controller that recognises colours and materials from the real world and small tools that users twist, pinch, press and bend to shape changes in AI-generated digital designs. Feng created Promptac to bridge the gap between the digital and physical world, aiming to provide a more intuitive creative process when designing with AI. Usually, generative AI models only accept prompts in the form of digital text or images. Made from foam clay and silicone, the tools in the kit act as a “translator“ between the user’s actions and AI. Read more on Dezeen: Watch Next : The Master’s Pupil is a hand-painted video game informed by Monet’s artworks - Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: ​ Like Dezeen on Facebook: ​ Follow Dezeen on Twitter: ​ Follow us on Instagram: ​