19世紀初流行的繪圖工具,這個驚人的工具，幫助你像一個老畫師

• This Amazing Tool Helps You Draw Pictures Like an Old Master

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Technology and art are ancient bedfellows. For centuries, artists have used technologically advanced tools to create and improve their masterpieces. Though the optical aids that were used hundreds of year ago have mostly been replaced with computers and digital tools, two university art professors are determined to bring a classic 19th-century device back into use.

Pablo Garcia, an assistant professor of contemporary practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Golan Levin, an associate professor of computation arts at Carnegie Mellon University, have created the modern-day version of a camera lucida, called a NeoLucida.

技術和藝術是古代的同床異夢。幾個世紀以來，藝術家使用了技術先進的工具，創建和改善他們的傑作。雖然被使用了幾百年的光學輔助前大多已被取代與計算機和數字化工具，兩所大學的藝術教授帶來了經典的19世紀的設備重新投入使用。

巴勃羅·加西亞，在芝加哥藝術學院，和戈蘭萊，在卡耐基梅隆大學副教授的計算藝術學院助理教授當代的做法，創造了現代版相機青岡，稱為NeoLucida的。

整個19世紀初流行的繪圖工具。當時攝影走了過來。

The drawing tool was popular throughout the early 19th century. Then photography came along.





For those of you who have no idea what a camera lucida is, you’re not alone. The quick version is this: A camera lucida is basically a prism on a stick that allows artists to trace what they see. The device superimposes a subject onto a piece of paper, allowing artists to simultaneously see their hand and their subject, which helps them to create a hyper-accurate sketch of what they’re looking at. Created in 1807, the drawing tool was popular throughout the early 19th century with artists, architects, scientists or anyone who needed to draw a life-like image. Then photography came along. Though the camera lucida was still a well-functioning device, it was relegated to an industrial tool and fell out of use…

 對於那些你們誰不知道什麼相機青岡，你並不孤單。快速的版本是這樣的：一個攝像頭青岡一棒，讓藝術家們能夠跟踪他們所看到的基本上是一個棱鏡。該設備疊加到一張紙的主題，讓藝術家能夠同時看到他們的手和他們的主題，這有助於他們創造一個超準確的草圖，他們正在尋找什麼。創建於1807年，是風靡了整個19世紀初的藝術家，建築師，科學家或任何人誰需要畫出一個栩栩如生的圖像繪圖工具。當時攝影走了過來。相機青岡雖然仍然是一個運作良好的設備，它被轉移到工業的工具上掉下來使用...

Until today. Garcia and Levin’s NeoLucida Kickstarter campaign finished recently, surpassing its $15,000 goal. In fact, they raised nearly 30 times the funding they had originally asked for, meaning thousands of people will soon have their very own NeoLucida to draw with.

直到今天。加西亞和萊文的NeoLucida Kickstarter的活動近期完成，超過$ 15,000的目標。事實上，他們提出了近30倍，他們原先要求，這意味著成千上萬的人，很快就會有他們自己的NeoLucida打水的資金。

Garcia and Levin needed the NeoLucida to be high quality, but inexpensive and durable. Not an easy thing to accomplish with a mostly mass-manufactured product. They knew they couldn’t skimp on the optics but figured it was possible to tinker with the mount that holds the prism up. Finally, they settled on gooseneck, a flexible metal tubing that could be sourced easily and cheaply in China. “Once we made that design leap, the rest began to fall into place,” Garcia said.

加西亞和萊需要NeoLucida高品質，但價格低廉，經久耐用。不是一件容易的事情多半是大規模生產的產品來完成。他們知道他們不能吝嗇在光學器件上，但想通這是鼓搗持有棱鏡安裝。最後，他們定居在鵝頸管，金屬軟管，可以容易和便宜的中國採購。“一旦我們設計的飛躍，其餘開始回落到位，”加西亞說。

The final working prototype rounds out at nine ounces, making it small and light enough to fit in a handbag, but sturdy enough to withstand the typical abuses portable objects encounter. And it’s only $40–a massive decrease in price point from the $200-$400 camera lucidas you find on ebay. Though Garcia has used and researched camera lucidas for more than a decade, the duo was really inspired by David Hockney’s 2001 book Secret Knowledge: The Lost Techniques of the Old Masters. In it, Hockney proposes the theory that many of history’s renowned artists used optical devices like a camera obscura, concave mirrors and the camera lucida to create their technically precise masterpieces. As you can imagine, this idea was not well received by everyone in the art world.

最後的工作原型輪九盎司，使得它足夠小，重量輕，適合在手袋，但堅固，足以承受典型的濫用便攜式對象相遇。而這只是40美元價位從$ 200 - $ 400相機lucidas的你在ebay上找到一個巨大的下降。雖然加西亞和研究相機lucidas，超過十年，二人真的是由大衛·霍克尼的2001年出版的秘密知識：失落的老大師的技術的啟發。在它中，霍克尼提出的理論，歷史上許多著名的藝術家使用一個暗箱，凹鏡和相機青岡等光學器件來創建他們的技術上精確的傑作。正如你可以想像，這種想法不是深受大家在藝術世界。

“Many attacked Hockney because they translated his investigation into allegations of “cheating” to make treasured works of art,” Garcia said. “As one of our backers suggested when we asked if using a camera lucida is ‘cheating’: ‘It’s only cheating if you assume art is a competition.’”

“很多攻擊霍克尼，因為他們翻譯了他的調查指控”作弊“，使珍貴的藝術作品，”加西亞說。“由於我們的支持者之一時，建議我們問如果使用相機青岡是”作弊“：”這只是欺騙，如果你假定藝術是一個競爭。“

Garcia and Levin approached the NeoLucida project as an a massive open online course. And they took their role as teachers seriously, educating their backers on the history and importance of technology in art, while building a community where people could ask questions, explore tools and share creations. “When some backers referred to us as ‘professors,’ we noticed that what we had built was not merely a hunk of metal and glass people were buying,” Garcia said. “We were building a community of students wanting to learn about, and engage with, art and technology.”

一個巨大的開放式在線課程，加西亞和萊文走近NeoLucida的項目。他們就把自己的角色作為教師認真，教育技術在藝術的歷史和重要性，他們的支持者，同時建立一個社區，人們可以在那裡提問，探索工具和大家分享創作。“當提到我們的一些支持者為'教授'，我們注意到，我們已經建立的不僅是一個人買大塊金屬和玻璃，”加西亞說。“我們正在建立一個社區的學生，想了解，參與，藝術和技術。”

he NeoLucida is currently sold out, but Garcia and Levin are aiming to have more available via e-commerce by early 2014. In the meantime, they’ll be rolling out open source files of the NeoLucida’s design, which will allow makers to build–and improve upon–their own camera lucida. “We absolutely do expect people will improve over our design,” says Levin. “And that’s great! We’re really curious what they’ll come up with.”

目前NeoLucida售罄，但加西亞和萊文的目標，是2014年初更可通過電子商務。在此期間，他們將推出開放的源文件，這將NeoLucida的設計製造商能夠建立和改善自己的相機青岡。“我們絕對做期望人們將改善我們的設計，”萊文說。“這是偉大的！我們真的很好奇，他們會想出什麼。“

Photos: Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin
照片：巴勃羅·加西亞和戈蘭萊

資料來源: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/06/neolucida-an-old-school-drawing-tool-for-the-21st-century/#slideid-151265