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Instead of ink and paper, each page is crocheted from a single unbroken piece of string, twine, or lace, in the manner of a complex spiderweb, Inuit ayahowsit or Hawaiian hei (string figures).
One size/length of string is used for each equivalent page size (A4, A3 etc): the shorter the message or
graphics, the more ornate the border and ornamentation containing it.
To recycle, simply feed the page backwards into one of the printers: the machine will unravel and store the string for reuse.
Title Reference
http://s4.hubimg.com/u/1488879_f520.jpg
the pig is optional. [FlyingToaster, Jun 24 2014]
String figures.
https://www.google....?q=string%20figures
[FlyingToaster, Jun 24 2014]
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I was going to post some crotchety anno..but that's kind of handy for spy types, look like getting caught, just put on the yarn in the code book. |
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PS expect one million "that's one way to tell a yarn" puns. |
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I'm waiting for some early-morning groggy h'baker to parse it as "Charlotte's Crotchless Panties"; not that that possibility affected the title choice in any way, you understand. |
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Beautiful. If only it came in bacon scented, I'd be in
heaven. Wonderful and so very useful. A huge white
lacy + |
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[+] (raises hand) Still blurry eyed, I read Crotcheting
Printer! Nice idea though! |
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I can't get the tapestry pun to work... |
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I suspect that crochet is going to be topologically
difficult to implement. How about embroidery? It
should be easy make a multi-head sewing machine
which could embroid. |
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Embroiding however requires a substrate (and there are plenty of t-shirt makers which will automatically stitch a logo or something into a shirt... I'm wearing one: "<something>(I'm reading it upside-down, it's in cursive and I'm half blind) Landscaping" with a logo that looks like a sideways jellyfish with legs. But I digress. |
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For this, it's a vector-driven page mechanism that produces page-sized "doilies". |
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There are 3 types of printing, corresponding to the amount of printer vs. host-computer interaction. |
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Generic: the host computer just sends a standard printfile over. The printer reverse-engineers the file to work out the vectors, then calculates how to string everything together. |
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Native: the host computer sends a (proprietary type) vector language file over (think Postscript), from which the machine calculates the best stringing steps. |
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High Definition: the computer does all the work via a software program, sending over a low-level printer language file, telling the machine every step. This of course is the most precise and can produce the most artistic results. |
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The end result is like a doily, or like the link. All in black & white or, to be more exact, string-colour and hole. |
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Absolutely no clue of the fine details of the physical mechanism, since I don't embroid, knit, crochet or weave, personally. Given that string figures (which I do do) can require all the fingers and thumbs in use and occasionally some doubled up - and this is potentially much more complex - there'd probably be at least a dozen crochet hooks standing by to pull, twist or hold, not counting auxiliary clamps and feeders and such. |
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^I bet you weave on occasion. Just a guess. |
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Only when wearing high-heels... |
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But seriously, er er er there is some reference to binary embroidery in the Baroque Cycle, Eliza encoded her diary onto a bit of cloth...but that's just fiction and done manually. |
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CNC knitting machines exist, for instance images are often knitted into socks. It may be difficult to have large gaps and using two colours of string may be unavoidable. |
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I'm imagining a nice length of kevlar would be the most reusable printing medium. |
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I realize most of the crochet pics are of rather densely packed thread, but the idea is more towards the string-figures type of thing. Though, of course, densely packed is an option. |
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After "printing", a fixative could be applied to the "page", to glue the strings together where they cross and generally stiffen the page up, so it could be snail-mailed or even filed if necessary. |
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