Coarsely discretized 3-D decoration

摘要

A decoration made from a plurality of colored objects arranged in a regular pattern on a colored substrate, individual colored objects discernable at arm's length, with the decoration recognizable at greater distance as corresponding to a digital image. The colored objects may be pushpins, and no colored objects are placed at positions where the substrate color is the desired color. Embodiments also include an apparatus to select a single pushpin from a container of pushpins, and an apparatus to orient a pushpin in preparation for insertion into the substrate.

主权项

1. A decoration, comprising:
a substrate comprising a major surface having a substrate color; a plurality of colored objects, each colored object having a respective color selected from a first reduced color palette, the first reduced color palette not including the substrate color, each colored object affixed to the substrate such that less than the entire major surface is covered by colored objects, wherein the first reduced color palette and the substrate color form a second reduced color palette, wherein the colored objects and the substrate color form a decoration, the decoration comprising a redigitization of a source digital image, the source digital image digitized at a first spatial resolution using a color palette larger than the second reduced color palette, and the redigitization digitized at a second spatial resolution using the second reduced color palette, the second spatial resolution more coarse than the first spatial resolution, and wherein a portion of the decoration formed from the colored objects appears in a plane above a portion of the decoration formed from the substrate color.