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A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists and microscopists. It projects an optical superimposition of the subject being viewed onto the surface upon which the artist is drawing.
Official site for the NeoLucida, the modern camera lucida. Use the NeoLucida to draw accurately from life. Perfect for artists, illustrators, architects, designers, and anyone who likes to draw, or wants to learn to draw.
camera lucida, (Latin: “light chamber”), optical instrument patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston to facilitate accurate sketching of objects. It consists of a four-sided prism mounted on a small stand above a sheet of paper.
The NeoLucida is a portable camera lucida: an optical drawing aid that allows you to trace what you see. Based on century-old designs but comprehensively redesigned for the 21st century, the NeoLucida is perfect for artists, scientists, designers, or hobbyists-anyone who wants to draw.
Camera lucida is an optical device that allows you to see what you wanted to paint or draw as if reflected on your piece of paper.
The Camera Lucida was the latest in a quest for automated drawing stretching back to the Renaissance. Almost immediately after the invention of linear perspective —a set of graphic and mathematical rules for constructing realistic drawings—artists proposed mechanized ways to draw from life.
A camera lucida (Latin for light chamber) is a simple optical device that allows an artist to trace an image in order to create a corresponding drawing, painting or print. The device consists of a prism that reflects an image from its base onto tracing paper at right angles to its face, as well as a magnifying lens.