https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCMrDqHH164"]The Talented Keira Rathbone on The One Show - YouTube https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=k...ep0QWuxIHYDg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1241&bih=640 I thought this was rather good... ...thats all.
As They Say, You Learn Something New Every Day, I Rather Like It, Reminds Me Of Charcoal Artworks.... Cheers Glen.
back in the days when computer printers were glorified typewriters, they'd hook up cameras and do portraits this way at county faires. that was before cell phones and digital cameras too, when most computers were mainfraimes and the cameras were like tv studio cameras and the earliest kind of portacams. i think hewlet packard and digital equipment corporation did this to show of their mini-computers, which were equipment racks the size of a household refrigerator.
Are you talking about ASCII art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii_art If so, the idea seems to be similar - but given a set pattern anybody can do that. With her work, she seems to be a little more free in how the paper shifts around (frwd/back/angled) to get the desired effect... Not straight lines... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=A...e%3DPopularScience%26pubdate%3D6-1939;774;600
the way the computer version worked is that every letter has a different density, so matching the density to the portion of the image is a matter of looking up on a table stored in memory, something a computer can do just fine. of course a human can do the equivalent, once you get an intuitive feel for the density of the different letters. and of course i mean that includes all they symbols included in the font. its really a funky way, but if a typewriter is what you have ...
