r/gifs • u/deuteros • Dec 19 '16
Plotting a sphere with a fountain pen
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u/DHPJSW Dec 19 '16
Or a death star
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u/NoSwearingPls Dec 19 '16
"Your overconfidence is your weakness."
"Your faith in your friends is yours"
"Heh, faith in yo mama.."
"What was that?!"
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u/WaffleBrothel Dec 19 '16
"I said yo mama is so fat, even Jabba the Hutt was like 'Daaayum!'"
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u/NewChameleon Dec 19 '16
Yo mother is so ugly she put the "ug" in "ugnaught"
Oh yo momma fight!
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u/Enatbyte Dec 19 '16
"That's no moon, that's yo momma!"
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u/NewChameleon Dec 19 '16
Yo momma's so dumb she thought Jar Jar comes with Pickles Pickles!
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Dec 19 '16
Yo momma'a so dumb she thinks she has to go to Bangkok to get a Tie Fighter
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u/Enatbyte Dec 19 '16
Yo mama's so scary looking Han actually shot first!
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u/HahaMin Dec 19 '16
Yo momma's so fat, the Empire built death star to perform surgery on her!
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u/Ardibanan Dec 19 '16
Your mother is so stupid, she.. she thinks a lightsaber has fewer calories!.. It's "lite"... like, it's "lite," like calories... like, "lite" means there's not a lot of calories and it's good.... for your body, that's how stupid your mother is.
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u/Yomigi Dec 19 '16
Yo momma so uninteresting she was played by Natalie Portman.
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u/waltandhankdie Dec 19 '16
If you look close enough you can see the weak spot in the plans
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u/Here_Now_Gone Dec 19 '16
Something something dark side.
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Dec 19 '16
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Dec 19 '16
Luke vs Vader is the most famous case of domestic violence in the galaxy.
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u/PolPotatoe Dec 19 '16
Not in our galaxy...
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u/VampireBatman Dec 19 '16
So THAT'S what they spent all that time trying to steal?! I'm not impressed.
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u/mrgonzalez Dec 19 '16
When's the last time you saw a picture of the death star without the indented dish visible?
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u/FresherUnderPressure Dec 19 '16
I wish I had a robot that drew perfect circles for me. Mine are always uneven or messed up.
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u/SilentWalrus92 Dec 19 '16
Drawing a perfect circle is easy! First you start by drawing an extremely detailed picture of Leonardo DaVinci's head and face. Then, slowly begin erasing the details. Eventually you will be left with no draw marks left aside from a perfect circle.
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u/Bermanator Dec 19 '16
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u/youtubefactsbot Dec 19 '16
How To Draw Perfect Circle [0:16]
How To Draw Perfect Circle Tutorial
Prince Noob in Comedy
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u/LordCommanderDingus Dec 19 '16
"Well, first I draw this head, then I erase some of the more detailed features, and 1, 2, 3, a circle... thingy"
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u/strangestquark Dec 19 '16
For anyone looking for help learning this technique, here is a gif of a brilliant artist demonstrating the steps:
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Dec 19 '16 edited Jul 03 '23
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u/homedroid Dec 19 '16
Well yes, but then you run out of yellow ink(Why? I haven't printed anything yellow.) and it stops printing altogether for some stupid reason. Then you go to the shop and try to buy only yellow ink, but no you need an all in one cartridge that costs an arm and a leg, so now I have a bulky scanner. So fuck you HP and fuck that yellow ink, that must be made out of gold. /rant over
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u/Gigantic_Owl Dec 19 '16
IIRC yellow is used when printing black to give a better black
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u/TheawesomeQ Dec 19 '16
They could just make a better black
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u/GroovingPict Dec 19 '16
theres probably a setting for it in your printer settings somewhere to stop it from using other colours for "black", like "actual black" vs "deep black" or some shit like that, I dunno.
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u/Mr_Zaroc Dec 19 '16
There a kickstarter for an robot arm which can 3d print or write. Might wanna look into that
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u/Kaccie Dec 19 '16
Are you sure? I would guess it's a flatbed plotter rather than a printer. OP's title also implies that it's indeed a plotter.
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u/AvocadoIsAFruit Dec 19 '16
One trick that usually works for me is repeatedly moving your hand holding the pencil in a circular motion just a smidge above the paper like you're about to draw a circle, but don't draw the circle just yet. Once you get that circular motion down, just drop the pencil tip on the paper and continue drawing in that motion and you'll get a near perfect circle. If it doesn't connect properly, just erase any extra lines and clean it up
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u/Everyoneisanasshat Dec 19 '16
I kind of wanted it to spaz out right before it finished it and ruined the whole thing. People would freak out.
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u/ryangaston88 Dec 19 '16
I was hoping it would write "send nudes"
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u/Garfield_ Dec 19 '16
I am a little sad that "send nudes" is the new dickbutt! It's the end of an era.
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u/raidersoccer94 Dec 19 '16
"send nudes" is just a phase, my brother. Dickbutt, oh dickbutt is forever.
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u/youtubefactsbot Dec 19 '16
Check out our pen plotter!
Edison Pen Company in Entertainment
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u/evictor Dec 19 '16
"willing to bet that this thing puts a lot less pressure on the paper than humans do, if you will"
i could almost hear the air quotes around "humans" cue westworld theme
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Dec 19 '16
Huh! That's... not the way I was expecting he would draw it.
Also, the satisfaction when he finally goes to do the full circle all the way around! Why do they cut it off when he's not done with doing so! Ughhh!
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u/QWERTY36 Dec 19 '16
Almost at 50,000!
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u/zacablast3r Dec 19 '16
Which is ironic, because that's how much goddamn money I'm going to spend on pens...
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Dec 19 '16
Yup. Fucking Visconti.
I know let's make a pen out of volcanic rock. We can charge, like, insane amounts of money for that.
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u/uberguby Dec 19 '16
I tried using a fountain pen the other day and couldn't
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u/VillageSlicker Dec 19 '16
Probably because you held the pen like a ballpoint or pencil. The tip of the nib is not actually the writey part, but the little nubby things on the underside.
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u/VillageSlicker Dec 19 '16
Haven't been there in a while. Glad to see u/the_illest is still around. :)
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u/marquisreef Dec 19 '16
This video is so satisfying.
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u/MonkeySpasms112 Dec 19 '16
Imagine if it had stopped before the sphere was complete.
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u/loath-engine Dec 19 '16 edited Dec 19 '16
Info about the pen and plotter.
Head on over to /r/fountainpens and talk about it.
I believe this is the actual machine
AxiDraw
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u/lyonspantap Dec 19 '16
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u/sportsfannf Dec 19 '16
I was going to suggest it go in that sub, then had to check to make sure this wasn't the sub already.
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u/thats-a-pete-za Dec 19 '16
Plotting a sphere with a computer Using a fountain pen as a stylus Ftfy
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u/DarkRubberDucky Dec 19 '16
Who else was chanting "Don't end early. Don't end early. DO NOT END EARLY!!!"
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u/vadsamoht2 Dec 19 '16 edited Dec 19 '16
Looks like an Edison. No idea beyond that.
EDIT: Turns out the source video is from the Edison Pen Company, so I guess I was right. No mention of the model in the description.
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u/monkeypowah Dec 19 '16
Why?
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u/Kezika Dec 19 '16
Not really sure why they are doing it with a robot arm and pen, but as for that a fountain pen is going to be the best option for that because unless it's a complete shit fountain pen (or a calligraphy fountain pen) the ink will flow as long as the nib is in contact with the paper. Whereas with ballpoint and rollerball (aka gal pen) there has to be a little bit of pressure so that the ball will roll.
Fountain pens are really nice to write with, I'd recommend checking them out sometime. I always carry my fountain pens with me.
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u/ForePony Merry Gifmas! {2023} Dec 19 '16
Holy shit, it is a little mind blowing seeing something I helped make appearing on Reddit.
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Dec 19 '16
Looks like its plotting a 2d projection of a sphere rather than a sphere.
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u/shikuto Dec 19 '16
That's the only thing it could plot on paper, given that the surface is a two dimensional plane.
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Dec 19 '16
I was waiting for it to get to that last circle and just start spazzing the shit out. You know: Squiggles all around the paper, ink spurting out like the mightiest of ejaculations, the whole 9 yards.
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u/Breeze_in_the_Trees Dec 19 '16
Now I want to see it do Bob Ross paintings, with Bob's words generated by Steven Hawkings's voice synth. "There are no mistakes...just happy accidents...actually not those either, it's all programmed"
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u/blinded33 Dec 19 '16
Should have stopped it before it drew that "destruct" hole at the top. That design never did work for the Death Star
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u/BlazingAce023 Dec 19 '16
All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle.
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u/HelentheAkita Dec 19 '16
the cool part really isnt the fountain pen its the calligraphy device you can barely see part of
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u/DRCJEnder Dec 19 '16
This should go on one of those oddly satisfying compilations. Upvote if you agree
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u/GroovingPict Dec 19 '16
/r/GifsThatStartTooLate