Quantum Image Processing

Physical works made with Huffman's Near-Term Quantum Image Processing (NTQIP) technique, which loads bitmap images onto today's noisy quantum processors one qubit per pixel. Measurement noise from the hardware becomes visible texture in the final pen-plotted piece.

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Year2023

Works1

EditionUnique works

MediumPainting

Technique

Each pixel's grey value is mapped to a qubit rotation between 0 and π. Pixels are independent, unentangled qubits, run in chunks on IBM Quantum systems (from 5-qubit devices up to the 127-qubit Eagle generation) with 36 shots per pixel. The results are drawn as 6 × 6 dot cells in Processing and pen-plotted with paint pens.

Quantum Systems

IBM Quantum (Eagle)

Sources

Qiskit Medium — Exhibition-ready quantum image processing ↗The New School — The Art and Design of Quantum Computing ↗

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Computational Legacy

2023 · Paint on aluminum (pen-plotted paint pen on multiple aluminum panels)

New York