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ben-day dots

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1. ben-day dots

   The Ben Day process is a printing and photoengraving technique for producing areas of grey or (with four-colour printing) various colours by using fine patterns of ink on the paper. It was developed in 1879 by illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (son of 19th-century publisher Benjamin Henry Day). The process is commonly described in terms of Ben Day dots, but other shapes can be used, such as parallel lines or textures.Depending on the effect, colour, or optical illusion needed, small coloured dots are closely spaced, widely spaced, or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely spaced to create pink, or an interleaved pattern of cyan and yellow dots might be used to produce a medium green. The technique has been commonly used in colour comic books, especially in the mid-20th century, to inexpensively create shading and secondary colours.The process differs from the halftone dots, which can vary continuously in size to produce gradations of shading or colour, and are commonly produced from photographs. Ben Day dots are of equal size and distribution across a specific area and are commonly applied to line art or graphic designs. To apply the drops, the artist would cut the appropriate shapes from transparent overlay sheets, which were available in a wide variety of dot sizes and distribution, to provide a range of tones to use. When photographically reproduced as a line cut for letterpress printing, the areas of Ben Day overlay provided the effect of tonal shading to the printing plate.Ben Day dots have been used deliberately, usually to evoke their use in color comics. They were a hallmark of American artist Roy Lichtenstein, who enlarged and exaggerated them in many of his paintings and sculptures, to evoke the printing technique used in the comic book illustrations he commonly copied. The animated feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018) uses a variety of visual styles, including illustrations with visible Ben Day dots.

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1. Ben-Day dots

   The Ben-Day dots printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day, Jr., is a technique dating from 1879. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely spaced to create pink. Pulp comic books of the 1950s and 1960s used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones. Ben-Day dots differ from halftone dots in that the Ben-Day dots are always of equal size and distribution in a specific area. To apply the dots to a drawing the artist would purchase transparent overlay sheets from a stationery supplier. The sheets were available in a wide variety of dot size and distribution, which gave the artist a range of tones to use in the work. The overlay material was cut in the shapes of the tonal areas desired—i.e. shadow or background or surface treatment—and rubbed onto the specific areas of the drawing with a burnisher.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ben-day dots in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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   The numerical value of ben-day dots in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Day_Dots
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