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The only tech I see from the MoleSkine side is the positioning of dots on the page. Adobe use these as guide marks for scanning, sizing and rotating. I'm wonde
by HarrietJones 12y ago
The only tech I see from the MoleSkine side is the positioning of dots on the page. Adobe use these as guide marks for scanning, sizing and rotating.
I'm wondering how easy it would be to just draw the dots in the right place, and have the App scan your picture correctly.
- Joeri 12y agoI bet there is a design patent on the exact placement of the dots, preventing competing notebooks.
- cicero99 12y agoHow easy do you think it would be to acquire just a single page of these and replicate it was an inkjet printer? $35 for a paper notebook isn't worth it- I tend to make a hundred drawings for every one I actually vectorize and use as is, so it this wouldn't be practical. Anyway, an expensive notebook is always intimidating, I go for cheaper ones with tear out pages so I don think about being wasteful when I'm creating
- userbinator 12y agoIndeed, this is just a new application using a very old idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiducial_marker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiducial_marker A quick search brings up a lot of patents related to using these for image digitisation, but most of them are for methods using something more complex than 1,1,1,2 dots - since this dot-based version can only correct for linear distortions.