Sunday, March 4, 2012

Lost Shadow: Tracing

One trouble I've found with physical media is that it can be very hard to copy things with complete fidelity.  If an element needs to be repeated, it often ends up looking a little different if otherwise largely the same.

Thankfully, someone smart and cunning figured out that light shines through paper, and paper stacked up underneath other paper sheets becomes visible on the surface when a bright light is shone through the stack.  Especially thin and transparent paper makes the effect much more apparent.


Enter the light table and tracing paper.  When their powers combine, you have a quick and easy way of copying anything!  Hurrah!


This is what I needed to trace.  A picture of a dead guy's face.  Three times.


Thank you, tracing paper and light table.  I could never have done it without you.

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