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Most paint programs have a "clone" feature where the user selects a starting point to "clone" with a brush in a different area of the picture.
This pen is similar to the AnyColor pen (linked below), except that it has a tiny camera, a small projector (just to project a square frame), and inertial
trackers built in.
To use, the user presses the "clone" button , which projects a frame onto the source document. When the user presses the "grab" button, a picture of this framed area is taken.
The user then presses the "clone" button and starts drawing on the paper. The pen tracks the location of its tip and draws the correctly colored "pixel" to the appropriate area on the paper.
Lots of different artistic effects are possible with this, along with practical applications like "cutting and pasting" something from a magazine into your notebook.
The pen can also "clone" real life and can function as the smallest possible camera/printer combination (albeit with a bit of manual labor involved in "scribbling out" the picture on paper).
AnyColor Pen
AnyColor_20Pen_20with_20ColorPick
Pen with CYMK ink and instantly adjustable color [cowtamer, Nov 20 2006]
Photoshop Clone Stamp
http://iit.bloomu.e...ng/cloningstamp.htm
How this is done in PhotoShop [cowtamer, Nov 20 2006]
Raster pen
Raster_20pen
[xaviergisz, Nov 22 2006]
[link]
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It's hardly "Just a printer", but I would say that currently - if it were possible - it would be far slower than drawing, realising the drawing sucks, scrunching up the paper and drawing again. |
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The idea is not a replacement for a printer. Rather, the "line" you're drawing changes colors as if you were 'revealing' the picture underneath. Since the pen is tracked, going over the same point doesn't hurt. |
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For example, you might clone an "eye" from a real picture in your drawing and then augment it with your own colored pens.. |
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You could clone an eye with your computer and then print it on papaer and use your colored pens. |
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It would also be cool if when you were drawing it would project the image you were copying so you could see where on the picture you are drawing. |
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Why don't you write that up [craigts]? |
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'cause now I've sullied it by posting it in an anno. Well okay if you insist... |
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edit: Thinking more, I'll just keep this as an add-on. People already project images and copy/trace them all the time. |
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[craigts] That's a cool improvement, but I have no good ideas to solve the following problems:
1) stuffing an actual LCD projector inside a pen with enough power (the projector I envision is an LED projecting through a properly positioned frame-like slit)
2) Keeping the projected image from moving around as you're drawing |
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Perhaps you could build a little LCD screen on top of the pen... |
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That's why it would be such a good idea to incorporate a projector into a pen. The projector can move, except it should only project small portions of the image as you draw. Pen movement would cause the image to scroll accordingly. |
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I am laughing my ass off thinking of a regular sized pen with a regular sized projector on top of it. As if my scrawl was not bad enough. |
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