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Toastaroid Camera

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Taking a photograph is a relatively simple process. Light is allowed to affect a gel, or film, embedded with photosensitive particles. They react to the light to which they are exposed, and are then fixed (rendered inactive to further exposure to light) before use as a mask to filter light onto a piece of photoreactive paper, coated with a similar gel.

It's a simple enough step to combine a number of the processes to give an instant, fixed negative then use it as an IR filter, to mask intense infrared light onto a slice of bread.

45-60 seconds later, you have a sepia-toned, edible memoir of the subject of your photographic efforts.

Yes, there are artists out there, making photomosaic murals of thousands of slices of toast. There are weather reports on toast. We've even done TTM (Toast Text Messaging), but there's no cameras using toast as the disply nedium, that I can find.

This is all done on a single slice. Now, I just need a slice that won't curl up at the edges, when toasted.

—UnaBubba, Mar 15 2003

Toast Text Messaging http://www.halfbake..._20Text_20Messaging
...and other Toast Imaging applications - such as weather reports - developed at the Bakery Communications Department of Brunel University. [hippo, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Propane Fueled Video Display http://www.halfbake...d_20video_20display
If a halfbaked idea could be baked by another halfbaked idea, does that make it quarterbaked? [half, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

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       some smart alec was attempting this centuries ago and photographed his bedsheet instead.
—po, Mar 15 2003
   

       Commenta obscura   

       I have never understood the allure of Turin. It's a city shrouded in mystery, to me.
—UnaBubba, Mar 15 2003
   

       no, you are spot on as usual.
—po, Mar 15 2003
   

       There's more than one spot on the sheets, shirley?
—UnaBubba, Mar 15 2003
   

       don't call me shirley.
—po, Mar 15 2003
   

       OK. Sorry, Mother Superior.
—UnaBubba, Mar 15 2003
   

       Dammit - I was gonna say that
—thumbwax, Mar 15 2003
   

       Do you have an escape route planned, when the thousands of Catholics come to your doorstep for a glimpse of 'Our Lady of Bread?'   

       *click* one artsy psychodelic two-tone pumpernickel croissant.
—RayfordSteele, Mar 15 2003
   

       I recently read about a pair of contemporary artists doing something similar to this, on a much larger scale, using grass - not burning it, but letting it turn green where the light comes through the transparency and keeping it yellow elsewhere.
—beauxeault, Mar 15 2003
   

       They're... uh po's. :)
—UnaBubba, Mar 15 2003
   

       no they are not - the very idea!
—po, Mar 15 2003
   

       And a very fetching po's at that.
—UnaBubba, Mar 16 2003
   

       How'd she get in that po'sition?
—bristolz, Mar 16 2003
   

       Didn't the Virgin Mary appear on a piece of toast in Mexico a while back? Now that The Onion and The New York Times are virtually indistinguishable, it's hard to tell what's what.
—snarfyguy, Mar 16 2003
   

       Didn't Polaroid patent this?
—andrewm, Mar 16 2003
   

       Maybe they did, but they ran out of bread, so their patents lapsed.   

       [hippo], I acknowledged the existence of other toast applications, but I am unaware of a Toast Camera.
—UnaBubba, Mar 16 2003
   

       Testoasterone Camera: takes your before and after pictures before you start body building.
—FarmerJohn, Mar 16 2003
   

       *hides his 'pose' pics so nobody knows he baked FJ's anno...
—RayfordSteele, Mar 16 2003
   

       Oh alright then.
—hippo, Mar 17 2003
   

       Thank'ee, good sir.
—UnaBubba, Mar 17 2003
   

       [Rods] - the correct term, used in the thin layer bonding industry is 'sputtering'.
Vapour deposition may also work.
—hippo, Mar 17 2003
   

       Vapour deposition would be for silicon sandwich applications, shirley?
—UnaBubba, Mar 17 2003
   

       A whole new meaning to Wafer Thin Mints, then ?
—8th of 7, Mar 17 2003
   

       (link) This idea was sort of partially foretold on another idea. First anno.
—half, Mar 17 2003
   

       I suppose you could make a stencil from aluminum foil to get a similar effect.
—whlanteigne, Apr 20 2003
   

       Until you tried to get it out of the toaster, and you ended up toast, yourself.
—UnaBubba, Apr 20 2003
   

       I made stencils from aluminum foil (Okay, I attempted making LOTS of stencils and ruined most of them) and toasted a simple image onto slices of white bread to see if it worked ( I used the broiler setting on my oven to toast it, not the toaster). I made 12 slices of Independance Day Toast. The kids liked it, my ex thought it was ridiculous; Anything a left-brain person disapproves must be a good thing.
—whlanteigne, Sep 09 2003
   


 

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