Pin art

It consists of a boxed surface made of a crowded array of pins that are free to slide in and out independently in a screen to create a three-dimensional relief.

The original Pinscreen toys were made of metal pins, which were heavier and tended to bend easily; newer Pinscreen toys are generally made of plastic pins.

Pinscreens have also been used for animation production; a larger device working on a similar principle was invented by Claire Parker in 1935.

[1] A 4-by-8-foot (1.2 m × 2.4 m) pinscreen is at the Swiss Science Center Technorama in Winterthur, Switzerland.

This screen is like a large 3D drawing pad that can work with different sizes of paintbrushes for calligraphy.