While i agree completely, RIT's college of imaging science is a very R&D heavy college. Monetization is rarely a top-of-mind consideration for their projects.
Just a minor point, the coffee printer is from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences[0], not the Center for Imaging Science[0]. CIAS does have some applied programs, though it has a fair number of pure-art programs. CIS is more R&D focused.
Cheap wine is presumed, right? I also presume it's not expensive coffee. The most expensive coffee in the world, that made from Black Ivory beans, is $374 per 12oz bag, or $49.50 per 750ml of brewed coffee (the size of a bottle of wine). I would not be "printing" with this. Although, given these beans are pre-processed by an elephant's digestive tract, I'm not sure I'd drink them either.
I love this. A whole serious of awesome prints could be made with this, that would sell high at art auctions with the right context. Think various fluids ( ahem, conceptual art ), and non-paper substrates. What about gallium onto a metal surface for instance?
Ferric chloride solution onto a metal plate could be nice too. I would think they could also play with doing a spiral raster[1] (which the watercolorbot does pretty well).
Also what about doing it in the dark and dropping developing solution onto an exposed print ? :D ( each dot is then a micro pixel which contains the real grain pixels of the photo ) :D
In fact I just checked https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rit.edu because I was skeptical that what you say is actually true, but it looks like there really are barely any CSH posts on HN, or posts from RIT at all. Not terribly surprising to see an article about John Resig listed there, some things from the CS department too.
Ted's my uncle, and has been doing amazing science photography since I was a little kid. He recently repaired an old scanning electron microscope and has been making images with that.
For Christmas this year he gave me a x-ray image of a pitcher plant (which he did in sections and stitched/colored with photoshop). The trick, he told me, was to grow it himself indoors so that it wouldn't eat any flies, which would show up as blobs in the x-ray and detract from the print.
Beautiful! So the dot pattern here is "face centered cubic," right? Would you get a better density with a "hexagonal close-packed" pattern? It may make a difference visually. I would love to see a comparison.
The FCC and HCP lattices are 3D concepts, but you're on the right track. They're using a square lattice, but you could get a higher density using a hexagonal one.
What's really interesting is that they're modulating drop size to change the color intensity through white space and the coffee-ring effect!
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Just a minor point, the coffee printer is from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences[0], not the Center for Imaging Science[0]. CIAS does have some applied programs, though it has a fair number of pure-art programs. CIS is more R&D focused.
[0] https://cias.rit.edu/
[1] http://cis.rit.edu/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2012/12/07/co...
1: http://paperjs.org/examples/spiral-raster/
Tho..dizziness inducing that spiral raster is.
Moiré patterns.
Also what about doing it in the dark and dropping developing solution onto an exposed print ? :D ( each dot is then a micro pixel which contains the real grain pixels of the photo ) :D
Surprised no one's posted stuff from CSH yet.
In fact I just checked https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rit.edu because I was skeptical that what you say is actually true, but it looks like there really are barely any CSH posts on HN, or posts from RIT at all. Not terribly surprising to see an article about John Resig listed there, some things from the CS department too.
For Christmas this year he gave me a x-ray image of a pitcher plant (which he did in sections and stitched/colored with photoshop). The trick, he told me, was to grow it himself indoors so that it wouldn't eat any flies, which would show up as blobs in the x-ray and detract from the print.
You can see more of his stuff at http://www.sciencephotography.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres (We memorized this stuff in chemistry class and I never saw it again so I may be completely wrong.)
What's really interesting is that they're modulating drop size to change the color intensity through white space and the coffee-ring effect!
Very cool.