A term taken from the Italian word meaning ‘light chamber’, which was an optical device invented in 1674 by Richard Hooke and redesigned and patented in 1807 by William Hyde Wollaston. A camera lucida projects an image on a surface, so that it can be traced. The technique is used by many commercial artists because [...]
A term taken from the Italian word meaning ‘light chamber’, which was an optical device invented in 1674 by Richard Hooke and redesigned and patented in 1807 by William Hyde Wollaston. A camera lucida projects an image on a surface, so that it can be traced. The technique is used by many commercial artists because of the ease of copying accurately and also because the mechanism allows for size variations.