Optical Drawing Aid Like The Lucy

[mdengraver]

Optical Drawing Aid Like The Lucy

Optical Drawing Aids

This is a modern reinterpretation of the 19th century optical drawing aids. It superimposes the image of the subject onto the paper. You can see the pencil and the subject at the same time. Keep track of what you see! Use mirrors and glass to combine the virtual ghost image of the object with...

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[Grayson]

Such devices were originally called the camera lucida, a Latin phrase for lighted room. Many microscopes have optional camera lucida attachments, but they are sometimes identified as drawing tubes.

 

[billyProps]

Watch the movie TIM’S VERMEER.

 

[mdengraver]

Saw that movie, great movie!