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Use this camera to take a picture of scene, such as house, family, dog, woods, etc. Instead of perfect image popping out, a stylized image, drawn in crayon and through the eyes of a 5-year old pops out.
http://www.explodingdog.com
http://www.explodingdog.com
Vast set of categorized links. Also includes the phrase "non-elephant biology". [technobadger, Feb 02 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/
[mrfrondeur, Feb 04 2002]
http://www.kurzweil...CATaaron/STAFsample
[mrfrondeur, Feb 04 2002]
Stylized Depiction in Computer Graphics
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr/
Vast set of categorized links. Also includes the phrase "non-elephant biology". [pottedstu, Feb 04 2002]
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ACtually drawn in crayon, or printed with whatever digital or Polaroid process the camera would usually use? |
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Croissant! But wouldn't you have to have an awfully small 5-year old to fit inside the camera? |
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Or a really big camera. (He didn't specify.) |
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I'm concerned about the source of his 5 years-old eyes. |
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As long as you don't feed him/her, the 5 year old will stay really small. |
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Maybe there could be plug-ins to simulate children with unusual gifts, spasticity, various developmental disorders, eerie psychic abilities, or unhappy pasts. Your photo might contain recognizable figures, or just streaks of red, or a dead relative of yours, or there might always be a little figure vomiting blackness somewhere in the frame. |
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It's close to the Holy Grail of new halfbakerness. |
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"I see stupid people...they're all around me. And they don't even know they're stupid!" |
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<Caption to a picture hanging all over in my tech-support office...> |
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This is an amusing idea... |
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"I see stupid people...they're all around me. And they don't even know they're stupid!" |
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there's another side to that, if you think about it. |
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Oh darn. I thought i t was going to be a camera that
attaches to belt loops, so you could get a true
kindergarten-eye-view of the world. |
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That's what I expected, too, but I like this idea better. |
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This reminds me of the Far Side cartoon of Picasso as a child, with a mother and father and (I think) a sibling and dog, all with eyes and noses and mouths, etc. in bizarre places and orientations. |
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Also, with respect to the size of the child: The word "camera" comes from "camera obscura," which means "dark room." So as waugs notes, maybe it wouldn't have to be a bonsai boy after all. |
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Bravo, Messr Frondeur. An auspicious start. Croissant. |
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This is bakeable. Most photo editing software has some novelty function that will transform your photos into a chalk or charcoal "drawing". I don't see how crayon would be too far off. There are digital cameras coming out now that have editing software built right in. You wouldn't get the interesting interpretations that [Monkfish] suggested, though. |
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Speaking as someone with children 4 and 6 years old (oh yes, and another one, 0 years old) I like this idea but can forsee problems capturing the spirit of playful surrealism which pervades children's invented artwork(as oppsed to that drawn from life). E.g. My 6-year-old daughter drew a picture yesterday showing a family of dragons and a coconut tree on a beach. Seagulls were flying past and the largest dragon had caught a seagull in its mouth. (Maybe I should scan this in to show you).
On the other hand, her drawings from life are quite accurate - although with childlike traits such as giving equal weight to all elements of the scene and having difficulty with perspective, which are both things which it might be possible to simulate with some cunning image-processing software. |
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Exploding dog! Thanks, I forgot about this site. |
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I've seen lots of digital image programs that can take a photo and do some sort of filter processing to add an artistic effect to it (e.g, Adobe can redo the image as a mosaic, or chalk / charcoal, trace outline, etc.) However, I think for this camera, I would need some sort of image recognition technology that actually can see the bunny in the photo, and redraw it. Check out the Kurzweil and Aaron links above! |
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So, at the end of the movie, does Bruce Willis discover he's been stupid all along? |
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I think it would be really great if you could 'program' the camera by taking photos of your child's pictures. AI chip in the camera would learn your kid's style, and then he could take pictures that would come out like 'his'. Even down to the right signature. great. Croissant. |
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Great points Steve DeGroof. Nighttime scenes would include a sky full of giant 5-point stars, sans moon. The ocean scenes would have all of the 2-dimensional creatures apparently floating on the surface. Depending on the "maturity" of the camera, the people in the pictures may or may not have bodies, i.e., early-year drawings might have the little stick arms and legs coming out of just a smiling head. You might want to have a little switch on the top (ranging from 3-year-old to 6-year-old) that let you manipulate this maturity level. |
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\\But wouldn't you have to have an awfully small 5-year old to fit inside the camera?\\ |
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if you make the 5 yr old smoke 40 a day there's a fair chance it'll stay rather compact. |
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I've seen someone at a party come up and take polaroid pictures of someone, and out of the camera comes a picture he took of you months or days ago. Fun stuff. |
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