Ben-Day dots

(noun)

The Ben-Day dots printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day, Jr., is similar to Pointillism. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced, or overlapping. Pulp comic books of the 1950s and 1960s used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones.

Related Terms

Examples of Ben-Day dots in the following topics:

  • Categorizing Art

    • For example, Roy Lichtenstein—a painter associated with the American Pop art movement of the 1960s—was not a pointillist, despite his use of dots.
    • Lichtenstein used evenly spaced Ben-Day dots (the type used to reproduce color in comic strips) as a style to question the "high" art of painting with the "low" art of comics, thus commenting on class distinctions in culture.
    • Pointillism, a technique in late Impressionism (1880s) developed especially by the artist Georges Seurat, employs dots to create variation in color and depth in an attempt to approximate the way people really see color.
    • Both artists use dots, but the particular style and technique relate to the artistic movement adopted by each artist.
    • The style employs dots to create variation in color and depth in an attempt to approximate the way people really see color.

  • Pop Art

    • His characteristic style featured thick outlines, bold colors and Ben-Day dots to represent certain colors, as if created by photographic reproduction.

  • Dot Plots

    • Judge whether a dot plot would be appropriate for a given data set
    • Dot plots can be used to display various types of information.
    • Each dot represents a single M & M.
    • This graph makes it easy to compare the popularity of the games separately for the two days, but does not make it easy to compare the popularity of a given game on the two days.
    • The dot plot in Figure 4 makes it easy to compare the days of the week for specific games while still portraying differences among games.

  • Acknowledgments

    • Ben Collins-Sussman and Mike Pilato also checked up on progress, and were always happy to discuss—sometimes at length—whatever topic I was trying to cover that week.
    • She knows what it means to sit down and write every day, and provided an inspiring example as well as a sympathetic ear.
    • I had four knowledgeable and diligent reviewers for this book: Yoav Shapira, Andrew Stellman, Davanum Srinivas, and Ben Hyde.

  • Cognitive Learning and Sociobiology

    • Group II rats were not fed in the maze for the first six days and then subsequent runs were done with food for several days after.
    • Group III rats had food available on the third day and every day thereafter.
    • They did not begin to catch up to the control group until the day food was given; it then took two days longer to learn the maze.
    • Group I (the green solid line) found food at the end of each trial; group II (the blue dashed line) did not find food for the first 6 days; and group III (the red dotted line) did not find food during runs on the first three days.
    • The orange dots on the group II and III lines show the days when food rewards were added to the mazes.

  • Overview of Personality Assessment

    • Although the MMPI was originally developed to assist in the clinical diagnosis of psychological disorders, it is now also used for occupational screening for careers like law enforcement, and in college, career, and marital counseling (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008).
    • This simulated inkblot is similar to those that make up the Rorschach test; a Rorschach inkblot would be filled in rather than a dotted pattern.

  • More on vectors

    • Suppose I record the noon temperature for three days.
    • Look again at the dot or inner product of two finite length vectors:
    • We can certainly use the same formula for the dot product of two infinite dimensional vectors:
    • The standard notation for the dot product of functions is $(f,g)$, thus
    • this means that the dot product of any $P_\ell$ with any other is zero.

  • Case Study

    • In the last 25 days, the top 6 posters to the svn [dev|users] list have been:
    • -Fitz, attempting to wade through three days of svn mail that he let pile up

  • Malagan Carvings

    • They take place irregularly and typically take several days, requiring months or years of preparation.While a malagan ceremony is always held in the name of one or more people who have died in recent years, it is not at all a mortuary rite; many other interactions take place within the overall event, including announcements, repayment of debts, recognition of obligations, resolution of disputes, and many other customary activities.
    • Contemporary masters of Malagan form include Ben Sisia of Libba Village (northern New Ireland) and Edward Salle of Lava Village (Tatau, Tabar Islands, New Ireland).

  • Oregon and the Overland Trails

    • The Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay famously used the Overland Trail to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake City, Utah, via stagecoaches in the early 1860s.
    • The path of the Oregon Trail, spanning the present-day states of Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.