System and Method of Pointillist Painting
AssigneeSso Venture Partners, LLC
InventorsJohn Neal Randall, Kenneth W. Page
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Abstract
A system of pointillist painting comprises an automated 3-D positioning system disposed proximate a painting surface, a colorant dispenser coupled to the gantry structure and having a dispensing tip in fluid communication with a colorant chamber, the gantry structure operable to move the colorant dispensing tip to a specified position of the painting surface, where the colorant dispenser is operable to apply a specified amount of a colorant to the painting surface and creating a dot having a two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile at the specified position.
Claims14
A system of pointillist painting, comprising:
- an automated 3-D positioning system disposed proximate a painting surface;
- a colorant dispenser coupled to the gantry structure and having a dispensing tip in fluid communication with a colorant chamber, the gantry structure operable to move the colorant dispensing tip to a specified position of the painting surface, where the colorant dispenser is operable to apply a specified amount of a colorant to the painting surface and creating a dot having a two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile at the specified position, wherein the colorant dispenser further comprises:
- a piston disposed in the colorant chamber;
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- a push rod coupled to the piston operable to advance the piston toward the dispensing tip to exude the specified amount of colorant onto the painting surface;
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- an air nozzle coupled to the colorant dispensing tip operable to direct pressurized air to modify at least one of the two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile of the colorant dot on the painting surface.
A method of pointillist painting, comprising:
- receiving a dot list including the specification of color, position, size, and texture of a plurality of dots;
- selecting a first set of dots having a first color;
- moving a colorant dispenser to a first position of a first dot of the first color specified in the dot list;
- advancing a piston disposed in the colorant dispenser to apply a predetermined amount of colorant of the first color to create a colorant dot having a two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile at a specific position on the painting surface;
- moving the colorant dispenser to subsequent positions of subsequent dots of the first color specified in the dot list until all dots of the first color have been processed;
- selecting a second set of dots having a second color;
- moving the colorant dispenser to all positions of all dots of the second color in the dot list to apply a predetermined amount of colorant of the second color onto the painting surface until all dots of the second color have been processed;
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- processing all subsequent sets of dots of subsequent colors in the dot list until all dots of all colors have been processed.
A method of pointillist painting, comprising:
- receiving a computer-readable file containing a specification of color, position, size, and texture of a plurality of dots;
- for each dot of each color specified in the computer-readable file:
- moving a colorant dispenser to each position of each dot of each color specified in the computer-readable file;
- advancing a piston disposed in the colorant dispenser to apply a predetermined amount of colorant to create a colorant dot having a two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile at a specified position on the painting surface;
- effecting a manipulator to modify at least one of the two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile of the colorant dot;
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- moving the colorant dispenser to subsequent positions of subsequent dots of the specified in the computer-readable file until all dots specified in the computer-readable file have been applied to the painting surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.