{"id":121735,"date":"2021-04-19T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/researchers-use-laser-paintbrush-to-create-miniature-masterpieces"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:23:17","slug":"researchers-use-laser-paintbrush-to-create-miniature-masterpieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/researchers-use-laser-paintbrush-to-create-miniature-masterpieces","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use laser paintbrush to create miniature masterpieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-laser-paintbrush-to-create-miniature-masterpieces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are blurring the lines between science and art by showing how a laser can be used to create artistic masterpieces in a way that mirrors classical paints and brushes. The new technique not only creates paint-like strokes of color on metal but also offers a way to change or erase colors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe developed a way to use a laser to create localized color on a metallic canvas using a technique that heats the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal<\/a> to the point where it evaporates,\u201d said research team leader Vadim Veiko from ITMO University in Russia. \u201cWith this approach, an artist can create miniature art that conveys complex meaning not only through shape and color but also through various laser-induced microstructures on the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Optica<\/i>, The <i>Optica <\/i>l Society\u2019s (OSA) journal, Veiko and colleagues show that their new laser tools can be used to create unique colorful paintings, including a miniature version of Van Gogh\u2019s painting \u201cThe Starry Night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are blurring the lines between science and art by showing how a laser can be used to create artistic masterpieces in a way that mirrors classical paints and brushes. The new technique not only creates paint-like strokes of color on metal but also offers a way to change or erase colors. \u201cWe developed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}