Mosaic Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Robotic manufacturing== With high cost of labor in developed countries, production [[automation]] has become increasingly popular. Rather than being assembled by hand, mosaics designed using [[computer aided design]] (CAD) software can be assembled by a robot. Production can be greater than 10 times faster with higher accuracy. But these "computer" mosaics have a different look than hand-made "artisanal" mosaics. With robotic production, colored tiles are loaded into [[wikt:buffer|buffers]], and then the robot picks and places tiles individually according to a command file from the design software.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artaic.com/ |title=Automated Custom Mosaics |year=2011 |access-date=25 August 2011}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page