Drawing Machines
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Drawing Machines
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#2https://drawingmachines.org/post.php?id=148
It's kinda weird that the understanding of the word "spectrograph" seems to have changed a lot in not that long a time. My understanding is that work on observing the spectra of stars and understanding their composition went on in the 1920s. Not only did the 'spectro-' part acquire a relatively specific meaning, but it seems like the term flipped from naming a device to an image produced by a device in not that long a period.
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#3It reminds me "PWA"[0] concept art by Stefán Zsolt[1] created using Blender 2.4x, which was published in the "Blenderart" Issue 1 (2005/11/15).[2,3]
[0] http://blender3d.org.ua/book/BlenderArt1/img/g3.jpg
[1] https://developer.blender.org/p/zsoltst/
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20060329091150/http://www.blender...
[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20070927020908/http://www.blender...
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#4https://drawingmachines.org/post.php?id=148 It's kinda weird that the understanding of the word "spectrograph" seems to have changed a lot in not that long a time. My understanding is that work on observing the spectra of stars and understanding their composition went on in the 1920s. Not only did the 'spectro-' part acquire a relatively specific meaning, but it seems like the term flipped from naming a device to an…
I think, in this case, we are seeing semantic a relation between spectra of light (in terms of overlapping sets of frequencies) and producing a 'graph' of the spectrum of rotational frequencies in ink. Anyone know with any more certainty?
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#5https://drawingmachines.org/post.php?id=148 It's kinda weird that the understanding of the word "spectrograph" seems to have changed a lot in not that long a time. My understanding is that work on observing the spectra of stars and understanding their composition went on in the 1920s. Not only did the 'spectro-' part acquire a relatively specific meaning, but it seems like the term flipped from naming a device to an…
I think, in this case, we are seeing semantic a relation between spectra of light (in terms of overlapping sets of frequencies) and producing a 'graph' of the spectrum of rotational frequencies in ink. Anyone know with any more certainty?
Traditionally, “X-graph” refers to the device which produces an “X-gram,” a physical record of some sort (e.g. telegraph/-gram, electrocardiograph/-gram, etc.)
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#6James Nolan Gandy (https://www.instagram.com/gandyworks) does excellent work like this.
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#7I got vaguely fascinated by the documentary Tim's Vermeer a few years back, where Tim Jennison makes the argument that Vermeer used something not unlike a couple of these to project his scenes onto a canvas so he could effectively paint-by-numbers. Whether that's true or not, I found the idea fascinating, I just don't have a good enough understanding of optics to understand how the system of lenses and mirrors works to be able to know how to replicate it.
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#8I didn't see mentioned the planimeter: "A planimeter, also known as a platometer, is a measuring instrument used to determine the area of an arbitrary two-dimensional shape." ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planimeter
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#9I got vaguely fascinated by the documentary Tim's Vermeer a few years back, where Tim Jennison makes the argument that Vermeer used something not unlike a couple of these to project his scenes onto a canvas so he could effectively paint-by-numbers. Whether that's true or not, I found the idea fascinating, I just don't have a good enough understanding of optics to understand how the system of lenses and mirrors works…
It's not really controversial or a secret IMO, a lot of historic ateliers taught students utilizing a camera obscura. Indeed basic education is still largely based around literal copying using grids, even today.
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#10The drawings of the machines are art by themselves.
One thing I miss about plotting libraries is having the ability to draw this kind of "pencil drawn" plots as in old technical books.