Paint the Chefs

2-5 pm on Thursday, January 25 in the 8th floor playroom
Coordinated by Jaime Teevan


Here, at the Artificial Intelligence Culinary Academy, we are well aware that cooking is an art. The purpose of this activity is to allow us to focus on the visual aspect of this art. By acknowledging the importance of color and form, we will help you make your meals as beautiful to the eye as they are to the palette. This skill we will expand through painting.

Rules

Unfortunately, you do not actually get to paint on your team captain. Instead, you will have the opportunity to paint on paper in order to reproduce the great chef masterpieces made available to you.

Choose your chef

There are a number of pictures of chefs that you can choose to paint. You and your team members can vote on which picture you will receive. The team that votes the most will get to paint its first choice painting. The team with the next largest number of votes will have its first choice of paintings from the remaining paintings, and so on.

Each team member gets to vote ONCE. You have six votes to distribute -- one set of three votes, one set of two votes, and one of one vote. You are welcome to distribute more than one set of votes to a painting. (Basically, you can vote however is possible with the below options.) Please don't vote more than once. Voting ends Thurdsay morning at 9 am -- VOTING CLOSED.

15 2 1 13 4 7 6 France (8)
7 0 1 78 3 0 10 China (17)
10 3 5 25 2 5 10 Italy (10)
30 5 2 28 20 9 20 Japan (19)

Paint

Each team member is responsible for one piece of the painting. You will be giving a portion of the painting, and a larger piece of paper on which to reproduce the painting. Only one team member may work on any one portion of the painting. When you have completed your portion of the painting, you may paint more pieces, but for a reduced number of points.

You may not compare your rectangle to other rectangles to make sure that things are lining up properly. Use only the materials provided to you (paint, pencils, paper), and leave your area clean when you are done working.

Scoring

The scoring is heavily weighted towards participation.

You get 4 points for the first piece you complete
You get 3 points for the second piece you complete
You get 2 points for the third piece you complete
You get 1 point for the fourth piece you complete
You get 0 points for all additional pieces you complete

No points if your team doesn't complete all squares
-10 points for leaving your work area messy

Judging

The aesthetic quality of your artwork also factors into the overall score. All in attendance at the bake-off will be asked to rank the three paintings not painted by the voter's team.

You get 1 point for every ten ballots your team casts

You get 16 points for receiving the highest average ranking
You get 8 points for receiving the next highest average ranking
You get 4 points for receiving the third highest average ranking
You get 2 points for receiving the fourth highest average ranking