Tessellate

Tessellate started from a small experiment with an old receipt printer. I wanted to see if I could use it to produce large-scale posters by printing long, continuous strips.

tessellate.giacomo.website github.com/sinanatra/tessellate

I began writing Python scripts to slice images into narrow bands based on DIN paper proportions. Since the printer only works in black and white and at a low resolution, I used dithering, halftones and threshold effects to give the prints more texture and depth.

Each print brought a new effect: glitches, gaps, and patterns I hadn’t planned. I kept adding parameters to control direction, spacing and scale, until I eventually built a small web tool to generate and send the image strips directly to the printer.

The process turned into a way of exploring how code and mechanical reproduction intersect, using a simple thermal printer to rethink what a printed image can be.