An artist type question - what is a ? called

[ardhill]

Hi

I am looking for a thingy.

It's a machine thing that you can put a picture on one part of it and it projects it to a wall or paper or something. Sorry for my bad description.

They have been around for years and years, I think they use, or used mirrors to project the image.

It isn't an OHP, not a data projector, but something a lot less complex (I think).

Anyone know what it is called, or even where I could get one?

Thanks

[turbanator]

Originally Posted by ardhill

Hi

I am looking for a thingy.

It's a machine thing that you can put a picture on one part of it and it projects it to a wall or paper or something. Sorry for my bad description.

They have been around for years and years, I think they use, or used mirrors to project the image.

It isn't an OHP, not a data projector, but something a lot less complex (I think).

Anyone know what it is called, or even where I could get one?

Thanks

Do you want iot for copying onto paper or to a wall.
There is a kid's toy that does it, I hade one that was a peiece of blue tranparent plastic. You put the thing that you wanted to copy on one side and blank paper on the other so you could see the reflection and also through the pastic to you hand, therefore you could trace the image.

Would that do? The still sell a similar thing, I saw one the other day.

r
Paul

[Stesh]

Ebay item:-

eBay: Artograph SUPER PRISM opaque art projecter nice (item 290053150868 end time Nov-27-06 13:47:39 PST)

[Richie]

Overhead projector?
Needs transparencies.

[ardhill]

Originally Posted by turbanator

Do you want iot for copying onto paper or to a wall.
There is a kid's toy that does it, I hade one that was a peiece of blue tranparent plastic. You put the thing that you wanted to copy on one side and blank paper on the other so you could see the reflection and also through the pastic to you hand, therefore you could trace the image.

For copying a photograph or picture onto paper.

I have since seen this: Shop for Supergrafix. at Argos.co.uk
But it looks a bit tacky and nasty. I also thought you could get one that you could alter the size of the copied image, which would be an advantage.

[turbanator]

Originally Posted by ardhill

For copying a photograph or picture onto paper.

I have since seen this: Shop for Supergrafix. at Argos.co.uk
But it looks a bit tacky and nasty. I also thought you could get one that you could alter the size of the copied image, which would be an advantage.

That was the newer version that I'd seen of what I used to have.
IIRC, the mechanical way of doing this is called a pantograph, they can change the size.

I'll just google it to make sure I'm not BS'ing - it has been known

r
P
Edit: there is a little java app here, I think that some are adjustable. and they will also do 1:1 if you use the 2 outside bits and fix the middle.

[ardhill]

Originally Posted by Stesh

Ebay item:-

eBay: Artograph SUPER PRISM opaque art projecter nice (item 290053150868 end time Nov-27-06 13:47:39 PST)

Thanks Stesh, that's the thing that 'I Thought' I was looking for.

I have just been told it is like the Argos kids version I posted a link to, but a 'grown-up' one. It apparently also copies objects, like people and landscapes, not just pictures. It is for my Mum, who is doing a bit of painting.

[ardhill]

Originally Posted by Richie

Overhead projector?
Needs transparencies.

Thanks Ritchie, but not one of those - my very descriptive explanation may be to blame

[nigelH]

Epidiascope?

Looks like a box full of lights with a lens on the front.
Rather like a slide projector to look at.
You used to put them on top of a book to project it on a wall.

Gosh I haven't seen one in years.

[ardhill]

Originally Posted by nigelH

Epidiascope?

Looks like a box full of lights with a lens on the front.
Rather like a slide projector to look at.
You used to put them on top of a book to project it on a wall.

Gosh I haven't seen one in years.

That's the name!

It appears after a bit of Googling that modern day they are called "Art Projectors"

Thanks Nigel