Patent ID: 9550209
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B05C,B05D,B41M,B44B,B44D,B44F

Claim:
1. A method of pointillist painting, comprising: receiving a dot list including a specification of color, position, size, texture, and exclusion zone of a plurality of dots, wherein the exclusion zone of a dot represents an area that does not overlap with an exclusion zone of any other of the 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; applying a measured blast of air operable to modify the at least one of the two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile of the colorant dot 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; and processing all subsequent sets of dots of subsequent colors in the dot list until all dots of all colors have been processed.