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Pixels in Plywood

By Rain Noe - August 3, 2011

in Object Culture

Remember Andrews Myers' screw-based pixel art? Along the same lines, a Finland-based artist going by the name of "Tomi" has created pixel art using an MDF-based CNC router to drill holes of different depths into stained plywood. The resultant halftone images take about an hour to produce and contain roughly 3,000 "pixels:"

Tomi is part of the DIY CNC movement, and if you're curious to see pictures and details of both his work and the machine's set-up, you can check both out here.

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GFC62

11 years ago

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Even 2 years later Tomi's work is still cool.

They're amplitude modulated halftone dots -- usually just called dots. Pixels are digital, they are fixed in size. Dots are analog, and vary in size.

A pixel represents the tones in an image by changing its intensity or density while maintaining the same size. An AM halftone dot represents tones in an image by changing size while keeping density constant.

Halftones allowed the binary printing process to simulate continuous tone photography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone

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A Burns

13 years ago

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Pixels does come from picture elements. Its not quite wrong. I don't know a more accurate term, they can't exactly be called brushstrokes.
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Deke

13 years ago

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Halftone, yeah. Pixels are square in shape, right?

Also- this is artwork made with an MDF-based router owned by a Finnish-based artist, not to be confused with the work of a screw-based artist?

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Brad

13 years ago

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Surely that's halftone, not pixels?
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