Drawing inspiration from Georges Seurat

By applying thousands of tiny spots of pure color, French painter Georges Seurat fathered a new style of painting: pointillism. The method essentially allows a viewer's visual perception to assemble broader tones, subjects, and themes from thousands of smaller brush strokes—woven together to form masterpieces on a single canvas. From afar, the works appear painted the same way techniques devised before them had done for centuries. Up close, however, one sees the genius in the composition of seemingly endless points serving a much greater whole.

Like Georges Seurat's brush technique, Seurat Technologies applies the same basic principle to laser light and powdered materials. Unlike traditional additive manufacturing, Area Printing from Seurat uses a powerful laser containing over 2.3 million pixels—like brush strokes—to micro-weld thin metal powder layers to the area below it, manufacturing entire renderings at once in a single defined area. Area Printing connects the dots to give the world a new perspective.