The kaleidoscope : $b its history, theory and construction. With its application to the fine and useful artsBrewster, David
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The kaleidoscope : $b its history, theory and construction. With its application to the fine and useful arts
Brewster, David
Kaleidoscopes
As the methods we have described of using the Kaleidoscope in
ornamental architecture, or ornamental painting, and in the manufacture
of carpets, will apply to the various other professions in which
the formation of symmetrical designs is a necessary part, I shall
merely state, that it will be found of the greatest advantage to the
jeweller in the arrangement of precious stones; to the bookbinder, the
wire-worker, the paper-stainer, and the artist who forms windows of
painted glass. In this last profession, in particular, the application
of the Kaleidoscope cannot fail to indicate combinations far superior
to anything that has yet been seen in this branch of art. From the
uniformity of tint in the separate pieces of glass which are to be
combined, the effect produced by the instrument from portions of the
very same glass that is to be used for the windows, may be considered
as a perfect fac-simile of the window when well executed on a large
scale.
CHAPTER XXI.
ON THE PHOTOGRAPHIC DELINEATION OF THE PICTURES
CREATED BY THE KALEIDOSCOPE.
In a preceding chapter we have referred to the delineation of the
pictures created by the Kaleidoscope, when they are received on the
ground glass of a camera obscura, or when a camera lucida is placed
at the eye-end of the instrument. Both of these methods are very
imperfect, and when the pictures have been copied for useful purposes,
we believe that they have generally been executed by a skilful
draughtsman, who delineated carefully one of the sectors of which the
figure is composed, and then repeated it so as to complete the picture.
[Illustration: FIG. 52.]
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