These sketches need some annotations. I will update more soon. 

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I did some experiment of the pantograph on site. The result wasn’t as good as I’d hoped it to be. I’m also currently experimenting the instrument itself to draw several drawings at the same time. The subject is the facade of the buildings along Portobello Road. 

Hand + Camera Coordination

Making/Retake

Phase 2: What the drawing sees

After studying the pantograph and understanding its motion principle, I became interested in the potential of the instrument as a recording device. My intention is to reenact the movement of the making (copying) the drawings/images into visual movement.

In the process of copying, as the arms move in parallel, a camera fixed by cogs to the arm will move due to the hand motion. This translates the drawing (or the making of the drawing) into the reading of the surrounding scene.

(The fixtures to support the camera was broken during the process of mounting the camera, therefor I had to resort to taping it. I know I will need to redesign the instrument)

Hand + Camera Coordination 

Phase1 : a working pantograph

Drawing machine

To continue with the theme of ‘Copying and Recreating’, I became interested in pantograph, an instrument that copies drawings/images/writings. It uses the principle of parallelogram. The pantograph creates an exact, enlarged or miniaturised copy of the subject.

I decided to build my own pantograph to better understand the fundamental behind the translating motions, and later fixing several extended ‘arms’ to see the outcome of the copies. 

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This is the first ‘animation’ shown for the first project, Splice.