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The drawing prism: a versatile graphic input device

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SIGGRAPH '85: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

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https://doi.org/10.1145/325334.325202

Published: 01 July 1985 Publication History

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Artists using conventional computer graphic input devices cannot produce the same visual effects which they can with traditional tools and media. The drawing prism is a new device which allows people to draw or paint directly into a frame buffer, using brushes, their hands, or a variety of other objects. These objects can be manipulated to achieve continuously adjustable line qualities and textures, in the same ways that artists have traditionally used their hands and tools.The device uses one face of a large transparent prisms as a drawing surface. A video camera views that surface from an angle such that it can only image the points of optical contact between drawing tools and the surface. These images are digitized and processed in real time so as to build up a drawing as the tools are moved along the surface. A layer of transparent liquid helps tools make optical contact with the drawing surface. Any light colored object can thus be used as a drawing tool.Details of the current implementation are provided along with suggestions for improving its resolution. Combinations of visual effects previously restricted to either traditional media or computer graphics are described and illustrated.

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The drawing prism: a versatile graphic input device
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  2. Real-time systems
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Graphics input devices

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SIGGRAPH '85: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

July 1985

332 pages

ISBN:0897911660

DOI:10.1145/325334

Chairmen:
Pat Cole
Hewlett-Packard, Palo alto, CA
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Robert Heilman
Gould Inc., Campbell, CA
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Brian A. Barsky
Univ. of California, Berkely, Berkely

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 19, Issue 3
Jul. 1985
305 pages
ISSN:0097-8930
DOI:10.1145/325165
Editors:
Brian A. Barsky
Univ. of California, Berkely, Berkely
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John C. Beatty
Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada
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