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Anti-Graffiti painter

An intelligent hand-held paint sprayer that covers graffiti with the original background color
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Instead of trying to clean surfaces from graffiti, tags, etc. use a machine that paints over it with the original background color. It is first held to an unspoiled section of the surface a few seconds for calibration. It registers the average background color and prepares for mixing during spraying from containers of primary colors. Spraying would then leave a graffiti free area that melts into the unpainted background.

More advanced devices could duplicate the patterns of rough concrete, granite or even quickly produce camouflage on clothes and equipment to match a new background.

FarmerJohn, Mar 12 2002

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       "_Don't_ lean against the wall"
phoenix, Mar 12 2002
  

       the chameleonic wall paper, modified to feed on paint could be used in this application.
rbl, Mar 12 2002
  

       Wasn't an automated version of this featured in the movie "Demolition Man"?
dag, Mar 12 2002
  

       Sounds like it could be useful for parents' whose young, budding artists prefer their walls to paper...
catfish25, Nov 11 2002
  

       And the graffiti 'artists' are lined up right behind the painter. An automated system (just like the aforementioned Demo-Man) would be the best!
bensini, Jan 24 2003
  

       Paint that eats graffitists id the solution. Exterminate the bastards.
UnaBubba, Nov 06 2004
  
      
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