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Perspectographs (Delineator)

Your stylus movement corresponds to a traveling sighting element. It’s a complex operation coordinating your eye and your hand, mediated by the machine.

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Artist's Appliance (Perspectograph)

M. Nutting

1854

Perspectographs

Sir Francis Ronalds

1831

Mechanical Perspective Instrument

Sir Francis Ronalds

1828

Panotrace

C.A. Boucher

1827

Perspectograph Drawing Machine

Joseph Hassler

1816

Perspective Compasses

George Adams

1803

Perspectograph

Jean Francois Niceron

1652

Perspectograph

Samuel Marolois

1628

Perspectograph/Projection Device

Ludovico Cigoli

Circa 1610

Perspectograph/Projection Device

Ludovico Cigoli

Circa 1610

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