Drawing a building with the aid of a camera lucida - GIF

Drawing a building with the aid of a camera lucida.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...863#post220580
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...805#post156136
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...064#post214180
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...279#post154165
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...443#post127497

Darn! I thought you were going to build one! :sweating::thumbsup:

Camera lucida are much older than 100 years. According to Wikipedia, it was patented over 200 yrs ago probably goes back many more hundreds of years to the mid 1400s.

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Originally Posted by Inflight

Camera lucida are much older than 100 years. According to Wikipedia, it was patented over 200 yrs ago probably goes back many more hundreds of years to the mid 1400s.

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Vermeer may have used something similar! Older yet.