fileg: color picker pen by jinsu park

catsmeat potter-pirbright (

fileg) wrote,
@ 2009-07-12 21:30:00

color picker pen by jinsu park
A fascinating concept

at designboom

korean designer jinsu park designed a concept pen that adopts the eyedropper tool of photoshop for real life. the color picker pen enables colors in the environment to be scanned and instantly used for drawing. the sensor detects the color and matches it to the color display. then the RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks together to create the color that has been scanned.

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	helveticat 2009-07-13 02:48 am UTC (link)
	And hundreds of years of creative color interpretation and thousands of Monets go down the drain, lol. This really, really creeps me out. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shebit 2009-07-13 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	Yep. Colour is subjective, but not if the artist has one of these. The artist in me is horrified, but the gadget-loving geek it shares brain space with thinks that's sort of wonderful. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, technology doesn't interfere with art. Photoshop didn't make people stop painting. Some people will do new things with it, and some will do what they have always done. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jkluge 2009-07-13 04:59 am UTC (link)
	HOLY FUCK!! What an amazing idea! I want one! May I repost this in my LJ? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-13 07:55 am UTC (link)
	Totally, I'm reposting from one of the sites I follow. I want one too - It seems like magic to me. I think from the article that it's still in the design stages, though.... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jkluge 2009-07-13 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the repost permission. :-) And, you're right, I think it is in the design stages. Gives us time to save our pennies. :-) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jkluge 2009-07-13 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	Forgot to mention how utterly cool your colorful assortment-o'-crayons icon is! SO pretty. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! I still love crayons, but they don't taste as good as they did when I was a kid. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

jkluge
2009-07-17 04:50 pm UTC (link)

LOL Nor does paste.

I used to have a recipe, when I worked with pre-schoolers, for homemade playdough which was technically edible, but not tasty. Recently, I saw a similar recipe that used Kool-Aid for color and scent (but it still wouldn't taste very good unless, I dunno, you added Splenda or something). I thought that was exceptionally cool. (I also saw links to using Kool-Aid to dye wool. Extraordinary colors!)

In grade school, I remember using bits of crushed crayons folded into a piece of waxed paper (the crayon bits were the "filling," in other words) which the nuns then helped us press beneath an iron (think Johnny Depp making toasted cheese sandwiches) to make the coolest melted crayon pictures.

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fileg
2009-07-18 11:24 am UTC (link)

Ah real library paste - I think it's why I went into library work. In my mind, I can still taste it.... probably not low carb, though!

I think there was real animal fat/byproducts in Crayolas when I was a kid. They smell like parafin now.

Your Johnny Depp visual mage me laugh. I'll have to drag that out and watch it soon! Plus, it has music from The Proclaimers. The nuns who taught me never made cool crayons for us!

Chris ran a daycare for a number of years, and we were always making things like edible clay (I think I still have some beads we made with it) The Koolaide sounds like a great idea, I'll have to tell her about it since she still does lots of crafty things with her neices.

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	applegnat 2009-07-13 06:24 am UTC (link)
	I think this is really exciting: I can't wait to see what happens to photography and painting if this becomes practically and widely usable. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:28 pm UTC (link)
	Plus, going into the hardware store and saying, look, I want to paint the dining room this color! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jkluge 2009-07-17 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	OMG, yes! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	redfiona99 2009-07-13 10:23 am UTC (link)
	This sounds fantastic. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:28 pm UTC (link)
	Now, if they could just invent something to give me some talent.... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sunspiral 2009-07-13 01:32 pm UTC (link)
	What a cool idea! I see a few serious challenges with getting the pen to actually output the desired color of ink but the scanning part is all existing technology. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:29 pm UTC (link)
	I imagiine it will still take some doing, but I love finding out that people are thinking of things like this. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shebit 2009-07-13 02:44 pm UTC (link)
	The artist in me thinks that spoils part of what we do - being able to mix the right colour (the way the artist sees it) is part of the art. The geek in me thinks that is very very shiny. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:30 pm UTC (link)
	It's just a tool - the art comes from within! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ningloreth 2009-07-13 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	I so need one of those! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:32 pm UTC (link)
	Me too! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	isil_elensar 2009-07-15 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	is it bad of me to take one look at the photo (before reading anything, mind you) and say to myself: "Who would want to shave an apple?" may i copy the picture? i must needs add it to my "visual/verbal graffiti" collection i've decided to start... and i think it's made of awesome. very shiney. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fileg 2009-07-17 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	Please, most of what I put here is shared from elsewhere. (I try to bring the cream over here to share). I also thought there was going to be apple shaving involved! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	apple shaving jkluge 2009-07-17 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	That's what I thought at first, too. :-) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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