My point of contention with the FastCoDesign article about this pointillist-painting robot is that the work it produces is much more in the vein of Lichtenstein’s pop art explorations than Seurat.

Secondly, in direct opposition to the above statement, is that the “printing” process is probably as close to pointillism as you can get.

According to FastCoDesign: “The Arduino-controlled Time Print Machine uses an algorithm to “paint” images — portraits, still lives, you name it — out of nothing but splotches of ink. Equipped with a felt pen and blotting paper, it works like a CNC-milling machine. Program the machine to render a digital image, and the pen starts stabbing at the paper, varying the amount of time it spends on each dot according to the gray value of the respective pixel; the more time allotted, the more the ink bleeds, and the thicker the dot.”

See the robot in action below

time print machine from paul F on Vimeo.