#scanning

[herzspalter]

TUTORIAL - How to touch up scanned b/w art! My friend asked for advice on how to do this, so I made a little ugly tutorial for it! Please ask if you have any questions!

[myfandomrealitea]

I hate hearing older generations crow about how self-checkouts are isolating the elderly and getting honest people fired because self-checkouts also enable autistic and neurodivergent and anti-social people to shop in safety and peace without having a breakdown at the counter because the cashier won't stop asking about your day or if you have a membership card.

Checkout systems should be a 25/75 or 50/50 split.

Old people should not have to wrestle with the untameable beast that is a faulty self-checkout scanner and I, your neighbourhood anti-social autistic, should not have to dread shopping because Kathy is legally obliged to ask me 42 questions before she takes my money.

"Eradicate self-checkouts!"

I would literally rather starve to death than have to engage in More Human Interaction just to buy food. Its already bad enough when I have to apologetically smile at the checkout supervisor because my machine is having an aneurysm over my can of Red Bull.

[scipunk]

Devs (2020)

[lorenzonuti]

Particle Scanning.

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[patrickkyle]

Acquiring the correct scanner can be key in accurately digitizing your work. CIS scanners are affordable, fast, good for B&W, but fail to capture the broad spectrum of colour and depth you can get with CCD Scanners.

CCD scanners are more expensive, but as most older scanners were CCD style, you can sometimes find them for cheap on the secondary market. I got my Epson for $20 on craigslist. Their mechanisms are more delicate though, so make sure they work before you buy and take care in transporting them.

Search the name and # of the scanner before you buy - you can often find their technical specs from the manufacturer that will let you know whether they're CCD or CIS format.

[kcflowers]

Madoka Magica Beta Designs Pt. 3

Building on the work set out in the previous post, I want to take advantage of now having of the 10th Anniverary Exhibiton Archive Book. While much of the contents are pieces we've seen before, there is genuinely new (to me) design concepts.

(10th Anniversary Exhibition Archive Book, Pg. 17)

While quite a few fans have seen versions of Homura's early design in these Ume Aoki sketches, the newer piece is the evolution of the buckler, and they're distinctly a product of the mechanical works of magic at the time of production.

This sheet (Archive Book Pg. 46) shows it form from the "time" necklace she has, a very sharp and angular shield, the bottom right graphic almost making it look like it has "depth".

This is followed up by this sketch, maintaining the sand timer in the sketch, but forming a more "heraldic" shape overall. Still a far cry from the buckler we know and love today.

This is where things start to get interesting though.

As highlighted in my previous post, at this point, soul gems were rocks or rings, and depending on how the timeline actually shook out, there still wasn't a convenient place for them to put them.

So what did the next stage seem to do? They put the soul gem in an armcuff to hold the buckler, to hold it up. While this version does maintain the iconic "gears at the center" graphic there are other graphics along side it that don't seem to maintain that same visual.

Perhaps I'm reading the ordering wrong.

Also on this page is what appears to be a different design for the bow, whether it would be wielded by Madoka or Homura at this juncture is unclear to me. I'd imagine Homura based on the positioning.

What else does this page have with respect to early weapons?

Well, page 47 gives us a slightly interesting insight into a potential weapon design for Sayaka, where instead of her traditional swashbuckling design cue, she'd instead have knives between her fingers (!?), evocative of Wolverine.

We also get quite a few gun variants for Mami that seem wholly unused. Such variety!

But perhaps the most interesting divergence is how this same text showed the summoning of the bow in the earlier ages, appearing organic as it seems to grow from Madoka's soul gem... but I've already gone off about that in paralleling the Walpurgisnacht Rising poster.

(Archive Book Pg. 17) Combine this with the organic wrapped trim that appears to hold the soul gem for the girls in those early designs, and I feel somewhat confident in that we could have gotten a very different show.

[californiastatelibrary]

We’re giving this book a digital glow-up one scan at a time.📖✨

No smudges, no dog-ears—just flipping amazing results. 😎📚💻