newatlas.com: If you ever fancied yourself a graffiti artist but lacked the artistic skill, the original SprayPrinter device provided a way to fake it. Users could choose an image to create and then let the handheld printer spray as required. Now, there's an updated version that lets you fake it better.
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The application of this technology with the arts and the ability to use your smartphone with this tool makes the SprayPrinter really unique and fun. Basically a smartphone app tracks a contraption attached to the paint can and sprays accordingly. The resulting image is unique, textured, and pixelated. This pointillistic style can get really detailed but ultimately gives away that the tool was used rather than the artist's free hand. Walking down the street it could be noticeable whether the latest mural was done with this app or by the "old-fashioned" way. The validity of graffiti as a form of fine art is often debated and the prevalence devices like this could discredit street artists. However, artists usually rise to the challenge of new technologies and make them their own rather than letting new technology overshadow their skill and integrity. It will be interesting to see how public perception of artists change as the methods and mediums change, but my faith in the innovators, the creators, and the importance of street art overall is unshaken.
this tool is really intriguing it allows for artists to apply much more detailed pieces faster than every before. it is like the technology big brother of the stencil. now i can already hear people saying that this takes away from the art but the same people said the same abut stencils. you can still use designs you made and upload them to your phone and apply them even if you are not the best at freehand painting. i believe this is a great way to gt more people to create art. and that is beautiful giving more people the ability to create art gives them a voice and this neo graffiti dose just that.
The example photos that they show look really cool. Even though you can see the pixels, it looks more like a digital style than a limitation of the product. However, I would really like to see examples of projects that went badly, or average. This is some of the best work examples they have to market their product, but that doesn’t expose the flaws. If you go too fast, can it still track where to paint? The article says that the spray paint will shut off when it needs to, but are there other human error problems, like standing too close to the surface you are painting? Are they working from photos of drawing or just general photos? Basically, what is the actual ease of use? I would also be interested in where this product is being used, actually for street art, interior wall art, and by individuals or companies.
This seems like a fake product. I would love to know how someone came up with the idea for this product. And why? Isn’t the idea of graffiti art to be free and dynamic? This seems like it is too controlled to for a “real” graffiti artist to use. This product would be useful for someone like me who has almost no artistic talent and can’t draw a straight line to save their lives. One of the things I don’t understand about this product is how you get different colors. Based on the description, the SprayPrinter only takes one can of spray paint. And that means one color. So, do you have to have the software determine which colors go where? How does that work? I’d be interested in using one of these at a trade show, but I’d never buy one. At least not for that purpose. Where I can see this product being useful is actually in layout. One could input the parameters of a scenic element or groundplan and using the SprayPrinter to do a layout of it. Or something similar. All that being said, I’d never buy one.
SprayPrinter seems fantastic. The idea of tracing pictures from your phone with an actual sprayer is just mind-blowing. This will be such a handy tool for people are not necessarily painter but would love to decorate their house/van/store/etc. You also will have a wide range of selections of images regardless of your own painting skills. Towards the end of the video, the developer says now it's possible for more than one person to work on the painting, which will save the fatigue and time if you want something of a bigger scale. The pixels actually add unique textures and characteristics rather than becoming flaws or failures to be precise.
I don't think tools like SprayPrinter will ever devalue or replace the classical, traditional, "real" art; instead, they make art more accessible to people with all levels of skills and I truly believe there will be millions of creative way to use SprayPrinter once it becomes more common in the market.
The team really thought through a lot of potential problems of its practicalities like the durability of the batteries, the precision of movement tracking, how to accommodate different speed and all. This is just an article that introduces the product, not a detailed instruction sheet that tells you exactly what to do. I'm curious to know more and may get one myself if the price is not scary.
This is definitely one of the more interesting pieces of technology that I’ve seen come through. From the sound of it, you are basically carrying around an ink head that can provide whatever color you might need, to create whatever design you might want. It does add a whole new meaning to graffiti artist. Now anyone can do it. If it is something you plan on using all of the time, it just might be worth it. The more complicated and intricate your design might be, the more you might have to end up paying for more ink. Paint doesn’t come cheap, especially if you are going to go about trying to paint things that will end up taking more time. One other thing to be concerned about is the quality of the artwork. Will it turn up pixelated due to increasing the size? Or because you are making it larger it can hopefully blend together a little more than an actual blown up print.
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