Pointillism Pointillism Pointillism () is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation. The movement Seurat began with this technique is known as Neo-impressionism. The Divisionists, too, used a similar technique of patterns to form images, though with larger cube-like brushstrokes. The technique relies on the ability of the
Chroma dots was normal practice to insert a filter circuit between the color video output and the black-and-white monitor input in order to remove the color signal and prevent the formation of chroma dots. In many cases, however, the filter was not used and the chroma dot patterning is permanently burned into the resulting film recording. In 1994, James Insell, a BBC engineer, noticed that when playing back a copy of a black-and-white telerecording through color video equipment, spurious color was generated by the presence of chroma dots in the picture. He theorised that it might be possible to use the chroma