This might be old, but how great is it. Paint your screen. I am intrigued at some point to find out what solenoids are that 'control paint-emission', Audi
Design Foundation, Design in Action publication.
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'PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed by Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrass & Hannes Koch as a rapid response
printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld
“printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.'
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Originally by Wood & Ortkrass whilst postgraduating (lets make words) at the
RCA, Audi DF I want to know if it can control more colours, or do you have
to change paint supply? the computer keeps it in registration (alignment) so you can re-paint over the same part of an image and controls the supply of paint, bit like using the same clone point in
Adobe Photoshop (love doing that into a blank document from an image with a wacky brush).
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This is part of the V&A Museums permanent collection of (I assume...) con-temporary printing machines, or in the Audi - Design in Action publication the 'temporary printing machines and with clients like
Nokia,
Coke Zero & Oracle. The publication did have some lovely tracked type and spreads combining red, black and beautiful white space.
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'The software for the first PixelRoller prototype was created using
processing which proved invaluable to the development process.'
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That processing by
Casey Reas and
Ben Fry I think it was... whilst at the Aesthetics & Computation Group headed by
John Maeda is finding some truly
versatile uses.
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http://www.random-international.com/pixelroller-overview/#
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For more information, please contact us more@random-international.com. For more images, please visit the PixelRoller at the RCA 2005 Gallery.
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