0 a piece of card, plastic, metal, etc. into which shapes have been cut, used to draw or paint patterns onto a surface --
1 to draw or paint something using a stencil --
2 a piece of flat material in which shapes or letters have been cut out, so that when you paint or draw over it, images of the shapes or letters that have been cut out will be left on the surface below, or the patterns or letters made by this method --
Stencils can be purchased as movable letters, ordered as professionally cut logos, or hand-cut by artists.
Stencils can be used multiple times for recognition and consistency.
Observing the latest trends and tendencies in architecture, he brought back stencils which until the end of his life he drew inspiration from.
His stencils have gotten larger and larger and the placements more and more bold over time.
Stencils work by overlaying a grayscale, or alpha channel image, such as a bump map, over the mesh.
A non-compact stencil's computational time increases with an increase of layers of nodes used.
Other similar relations relate transparencies to prints, stencils to imprints, typographical types to imprints, and so on.
Again, rather than galleries and museums, street art exists on buildings and other outdoors spaces, utilizing stickers, stencils, and/or spray paint as its medium.
