Let's concentrate on the part of the movie from 1:43 to ~3:17.
At 2:09 there is a vertical (or horizontal from the video's perspective) line drawn that is overlapped at ~3:00 with a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IMAGE. Now, this doesn't quite rule out computer animation, but there is no way it can be a relief.
You'll also notice at 2:40 to 2:44 when the human steps away. This is obviously to load a new image into the printer (or to ask a buddy to do the very same).
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Because faces are easy identifiable. You can see in a split second that it's a face. Take for example a ": )". You see a face in that, even though it's very simple. But you still see it.
do it on a solid material then i will belive it. you are just rolling it on a relif. do it on like solid drywall, not cloth that has a relif behind it.
there is something painted on the paper that keeps the ink in the pixel roller from sticking to the image on the paper...why is it only one color? try to draw on top of white crayon with water color markers,or even clear wax...maybe i am wrong but i am closer than people thinking it is actually any sort of hand held printer...
They have to move slow because the pic dissappears if it separates from the back. You can do any # of colors, but the more complex you make it the easier it is to spot.
oh and by the way the light stick is so easy to explain it makes me sad you didnt figure it out minkette. the pic was painted beforehand using glow in the dark paint and if you were born yesterday you need to shine light on things that glow first then they glow in the dark. thats what the light on the stick is for. who are the ones who lived in the caves.
the wheels turn at differnt speed when it turns and are very easy to track distances with. A simple computation can find location based on the varied distances/speeds of the two wheels. I should need to explain this part, but... If it knows where it is, It looks at the picture saved in memory and finds out what pixels should be under it.
I dont care how advanced you think our technoligy is this stick does not know where it is on this loose floppy sheet of paper. and if you want to use the overhead encoder arguement telling the roller when and where to lay the ink that idea is out the window because the paper is so loose. Now im waiting for someone to come back with a real intelectual arguement other than ( yer a stupid feller hughhh hughh we is super smort in stuff we is techtictinilyis advaynced
aghhh your stupidity is unbearable. Explain to me how this roller knows exactly when and where to lay the ink when the movements are so random. The printer on a stick arguement is plausable if the movements were precise for instance I start at the top and the stick is programed to lay a set pattern wich is the top portion of the pic(for fun we will say its the eyes)then the sticks program goes to the second stage of the pic and i begin at the same place just below the first portion(now the nose)
It's not that cool. Whats amazing is how incredibly stupid you are. The printer is super simple. Is the odometer fake on your truck? No? Now calculate the difference in distance on two independent wheels that are a fixed distance from each other. Fairly basic to ascertain location and position then apply the appropriate ink. Think a little. Seriously it's backwards to think this is complicated, and pre-industrial to think it must be fake. Please tell me you'll never breed.
Viewers would find this much more believable if this was done on a hard surface. I've watched a couple of these now, and they're either done on a paper where something could be hidden under it to paint a picture or done with a chemical that can be seen with a "laser"
So what you're saying is that they don't have the technology to paint a monochrome(1 color) picture at a speed that's really slow(as slow as they are rolling it), and at extremely low resolution...??
Have you been living in a fucking cave for the past decade?
Um... you have a case of paranoia, don't you? Seeing and reading things that aren't really there? Where, in what I wrote, does it say that there isn't technology to paint a monochrome picture? What I'm saying is the way that this "pixel roller" is depicted is unbelievable
Nevermind, I stand corrected. Unlike most people, I actually went and looked it up. The thing with this pixel roller is that once that roller touches the paper, you can't pick it up until after you're done with the picture. Otherwise, the "printer" loses track of where it is and your picture is screwed.
ok i rest my case iv had 2 responses to my comment and both make no sense at all and have no basis. one said im grotesquely ugly yet has never seen a pic of me and the other was something about a man horse. yeah they are defineately special in that only a mother can love sorta way. and im sticking to my guns this is fake and an embarrassment to the american school system. (oh i just invented a DVD rewinder i will sell for only $20 who wants one free shipping)
This is not fake, it is a printer on a stick. I have seen in working with my own eyes at an exhibition at the V&A. Not only that, but you can watch one called 'light roller' by clicking on the righthand side here. Try using light on a bassrelief muppetboy.
plus - The horse comment was obscure, but I think he was suggesting that since you are so unable to accept anything as technological as a printer on a stick could exist, that you probably find the concept of moving faster than walking pace a feat of witchcraft.
ok all you uneducated gullable inbred idiots this is not real im sorry not for you but for the people that have to listen to you talk in public and at mc donalds when you get the order wrong. pay attention to the video when he goes over an area that has been painted watch the picture on the edge of the roller sometimes it disapears and reconfigures. the paper is used to disguise it.
Listen to you! You're the guy who would fall on his knees and pray to the man riding a horse because you think he's some sort of man-horse-witch-god. It's a fucking dude riding a horse! And in this case, it's a sophisticated printer on a stick! Go to their website, jackass!
So wait... you're another dingus that is saying the technology doesn't exist to paint MONOCHROME(1 color) at a really slow pace(as slow as they are rolling it), at an extremely LOW RESOLUTION onto paper??
What fucking cave have you been living in for the past two decades?
place a coin underneath a paper, and then take the back of your pencil, and rubb it against the paper where the coin is.. tada.. "Computer animation in real world" IDI!
Does not need to be computer animation. If you have a bassrelief kind of drawing in the surface underneath the canvas, the roller would only paint on the higher areas...
why isnt anyone adressing the fact that this would be impossible in real life? It is computer animation. It would be possible if you could have a machine that precisely turned the roller at the programed time and stoped the roller at the precise time. and it would have to be a design or a very basic 1 foot x 1 foot repitition picture because the roller is only aproximately 1 foot in circumference and the movements are not precise.....If this fooled you..... you my friend are an idiot
It's real. Look it up. They have lots of information on it, and videos of it in action at other art exhibits and stuff. You, my friend, are the idiot.
Impossible in real life? The only thing impossible here is what you think your intelligence is.
Although impractical, it would be possible to make a sort of small-scale GPS that had three points around the paper and a receiver to triangulate the printer itself. Then, using a computer program, it would "draw" a box showing where the printer would be and paint what was in that box.
This particular printer doesn't use this technology, but if they did that could be the "Mark 3".
This could be achieved after some hard work with a wii remote and some AV software like Jitter. And you have no idea what they could have created for this.
A wii can keep track of it's remote in 3d space :P
[cont..] You can even sometimes in the video se that the wheels are making some kind of "skidmarks" in the paint, as it rolls over the paint. It's probably a light water color, since if added lightly, it wont brush out when rolling over it the second time.
Stop calling this fake, its very feasible. This is how I would have done it.
You shouldn't bother wasting time trying to explain things to people. The same or similar process has already been mentioned several times in the comments, there's a website for it and several other videos. People, especially on YouTube, are stupid... don't worry yourself about it.
[cont..] Using this, the computer that is controlling the paint device, calculates what pixels that should be painted at any given time, as long as the person does not lift the device away from the paper while painting.
You are all so stupid.. I could have made this myself. It is so simple as, that the painter has two wheels. One at each side. When they roll it, even if they turn it, the device will track how long each wheel has gone, and then know exactly what angle and where on the paper you are, accordingly to where you started.
If you look real close, you can see the blur around the Roller... that means it has been edited. You can see the boundary of where the video was doctored.
This really seems like a clever art project instead of some new printing technology. Why don't they share more detail on how it works instead of just mentioning that it "paints pixels". If there was more information it could validate that this is not just a clever hoax/art project.
this DOES seem rather impossible, because the roller would have to keep track of all the moveents and positions....i dont know what to believe. the cell phone seemed impossible too
A piece of hardware that could keep track of its location, either by wheels or possibly tracker balls? That seems impossible! If they could invent that, they would have invented the MOUSE years ago! Of course, they didn't. It's impossible.
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I can't believe you people are arguing over a magic trick you'd see at a kid's party. There is dry watercolor under the paper. The roller is dipped in water and when the paper becomes wet, it becomes translucent and picks up the watercolor. The paint bleeds through and you can see it from the opposite side.
I can't believe that people are so stubborn that they would tell them to "kill themselves" like that absolute moron Kelnar7 over there. . . Honestly, are people so closed-minded that they would condemn such an amazing piece of new technology? It's absolutely pitiful.
What I would like to see is a further advancement of this technology where the brush would be able to paint pictures of several colors.
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if you actually think the printer on the end of that stick is actually "printing" you are a fool. in the other pixel roller video they dip the printer in paint. um.....why would you need to do that if it really worked? wouldn't it use it's own print cartidges?
this is an old trick, if you seriously think this pixel roller is real you should kill yourself.
LoL you're an idiot. If technology surprises you to the point where you assume it must be a magic trick, then maybe you need to return to your tribe in the jungle.
umm yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do w/ the wheels on the bottom of the roller. or maybe the fact that they can't lift the roller off the paper once they start painting. The wheels send back information about the roller's movements so it knows when to print, it's not a fucking trick.
Looks like relief printing...the inked wood cut, linoleum or what ever is under the sheet. The pressure from the roller cause the ink on the plate behind the sheet to seep through.
it's a new technology. why compare something that is just starting to be perfected to something that has been mainly perfected such as what you term in the comparison as a, "great silk screen".
Its a relief painting, rasied surface under neath paper, when pressed with light ink or paint raised image underneath becomes visable on paper as the roller presses paint against the paper which is pressed from behind by relief image. This is old school pretending to be new school
new school doesn't wanna hear that, shhhhhhh they might cry in a dark corner ;-) pulling yo chains. i admire the thought and tech behind it, but why replace something that is effective all these years with something that takes so much from the environment to produce and if you trash it, takes up mass room in landfills no? Think about it.
This shit is really interesting. I am bored of seeing it demonstrated on white. The artefacts / print quality makes one think that certain subject matter would be stronger than photographic images of human faces.
I would like to see something useful, given its limitations, like printing out a giant map.
you are all wrong,its time lapse images watch the surrounding paper where the"printer" isnt, the paper changes shapes,although very convincing,still just time lapse.
i can see what makes you say that. but i believe it's probably because the camera's fps isn't high enough to capture the changes in the shape of the paper continuously.
my god there are some idiots out there who just don't understand what you can do with technology. What do you want this guy to do - paint on every wall - then what? Paint it white, wait for it to dry to start again? Just so that idiots like YOU will believe that this fairly simple idea is actually possible?
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lol if that technology existed they would have been using it long ago. why do they have to keep dipping it into the paint if it's a printer? lmao cause it's not real that's why.
"lol if that technology existed they would have been using it long ago" Duh! Ookay... "lol if the internet existed they would have been using it long ago?" Does THAT make any sense Kelnar7? No, it's just been invented! Idiot.
"PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld "printer", based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand." Why dont you read the description dumbass!
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lol i still can't believe how stupid the human race is. the fact most of the people who post actually believe something like this exists...it amazes me. open your mind, idiots, it's fake.
since it is connected to the computer they are prolly just using a distinct canvas size on the computer that will be the same size as the paper and the roller is using motion sensors to where it is at all time. so when the person moves the roller over a certain area it is actually moving the cursor in the computer which is acting like a scanner
oi fanc pants, just how long ago was this 5th grade thing? last year? see any texture under the canvas/paper whatever it is? see the thing on the end of the pole he is holding? aint just painting over a texture mate
youtubester if you cheack back on the first one i've got a guess, i think its the difference in speed between wheels on the outer edges of the 'brush' they move at different speeds when you turn it much like the inner and out wheels of a car when it goes round a corner, but as i've said before, i'm mereley speculating lol
umm yeah i just want to know if this will work on the 101 freeway in hollywood cause me and my TEAM ALEX would like to throw up are logo at 3 am in the morning using that niffty roller of ur's..
Some of you remember when a flatbed scanner and a VLB SCSI card were a couple thousand dollars --Then came the cheap serial hand held scanner and auto-stich. This looks like the old hand helds with printing.
I disagree with swift and zac...walls dont crease when you move over them. That is a shadow you see. Regardless. I have seen a lot of foolish comments, but what I havent seen was one that was actually asking something that I would like to know, so here it is. Can it paint in more than just red? can it paint on a surface less smooth than the paper?
Umm.. he does go off the paper a few times by accident, and it paints onto the wall.
I'm pretty sure there are wheels under it which the computer can use to know where the roller is in relation to where it started painting. Notice how all the drawings are done in one go, he can't pick up the roller and go back.
Notice they never go straight onto a wall. Thats because the image is already under/on the paper and they simply activate it with pressure or a chemical reaction.
This is nothing more than wet paint behind paper. As he rolls it, the wet paint seeps through the paper. It's a dead give away at 1:30 - 1:42 in the video, as the roller that is pressing the paper down picks up paint and drags it along the front side of the face. He soon stops because he knows if he keeps going the roller will drag paint all over and give it away.
It would be way simple to design a system to sense the exact location on an x-y plane for the roller/print-head unit, and it's orientation. I was using a wireless digitizer system over 20 years ago that could sense where the pen was an a large board to draw graphics on an ancient computer. It used no sensors in the board but had a strip near the top and one on the side to pick up the pen-tip's position. Something similar could be used to allow the roller to be re-positioned.
problem with this theory is that each stroke would have to be in the exact same direction in order for the sprayer, which would run back and forth on an axis, could paint appropriately... as soon as you got off going sideways, it would lose it's point of reference.
No problem - you simply have a sensor or transmitter at each side of the roller. Then the head orientation wouldn't matter as the PC could easily triangulate the exact position and angle of the head given two reference points on the x-y plane. Try it yourself - draw two equidistant points on a piece of paper and see what happens when you join them!
As a point of reference, look at the video from 1:14 to 1:30. You will see that he catches a large part of wet paint as it seeps through the paper from below onto the roller and drags the paint across the front of the face and then back up the neck. This gives it away as a fake.
I do believe that that is part of the picture. It looks like that part of the face is shaded, which makes sense. Instead of using a light background, the picture you're referring to uses a dark background. The operator also missed a strip when he made the supposedly offending stroke. Whoopsie. :P
I dont understand why so many people are so quick to shout "fake". It's quite easy to imagine how a concept like this could work. Imagine how your old ball mouse figured out where to move the pointer on the screen, just an x and y axis and some sensors. Combine that with some kind of printer technology, hook it up to the pc and there ya go.. On the other hand, it could be a deception.. Who cares?
The key that the image is wet under the cloth is that some strokes have to be gone over two or more times in the same spot to get anything. If the roller is in fact PRINTING you should get even coats and image everytime a stroke is made.
you can tell it's not wet underneath becuse it would bleed around the edges very badly on this thin paper. AND in order to leave parts of the paper blank the roller must put out very small amounts of paint.
I would love one of those paintings on my wall..........futuristik ^^
jusk2ru 2 years ago
boring
sean2mush 3 years ago
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Lochcarren 3 years ago
Not possible. Not with that kind of accuracy.
Kagurath 2 years ago
stupid LOL
dhqkfxks 1 year ago
Waste of my time
evilfox7878 3 years ago
To those who think this is fake:
Let's concentrate on the part of the movie from 1:43 to ~3:17.
At 2:09 there is a vertical (or horizontal from the video's perspective) line drawn that is overlapped at ~3:00 with a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IMAGE. Now, this doesn't quite rule out computer animation, but there is no way it can be a relief.
You'll also notice at 2:40 to 2:44 when the human steps away. This is obviously to load a new image into the printer (or to ask a buddy to do the very same).
leifsp 3 years ago
It's alot more complex, because it must know in what angle it paints and where the roller is located.
Neqkschot 4 years ago
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anton1040 4 years ago
must get one
sadiktwentynine 4 years ago
how are they doing that??
McrRayner123 4 years ago
Its like a printer on a stick.
LtNight 3 years ago 2
I have a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it. Why do they always use faces as examples?
NekoNiiSan 4 years ago
Because faces are easy identifiable. You can see in a split second that it's a face. Take for example a ": )". You see a face in that, even though it's very simple. But you still see it.
Neqkschot 4 years ago
why only red paint?
millsfreak 4 years ago
do it on a solid material then i will belive it. you are just rolling it on a relif. do it on like solid drywall, not cloth that has a relif behind it.
mattdaman666 4 years ago
Sorry if they don't want to paint a wall, and would rather use paper instead.
nannybannany 4 years ago
why would it be fake
its just erlaying a computer made immage buy not painting some places and painting other polaces
silverarea 4 years ago
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fake or real ..ITs lame !!! Not true art!
sbrn362 4 years ago
I would like to know what you think 'true art' is...
:)
TDHX1138 4 years ago 5
it is bs
wise129 4 years ago
kinda neat, more like a school project, but the pictures are all shitty, coffee house crap, not very practical at all.
trickstered 4 years ago
also i think the head on the roller has some sort of cleaner to wipe excess.
devilslice 4 years ago
there is something painted on the paper that keeps the ink in the pixel roller from sticking to the image on the paper...why is it only one color? try to draw on top of white crayon with water color markers,or even clear wax...maybe i am wrong but i am closer than people thinking it is actually any sort of hand held printer...
devilslice 4 years ago
i think the roller actually didn't paint the pic.. the pic is already in background.. and covered with a paper on top...
htoo22 4 years ago
can you do that with a regular roller? how do you get those pixel rollers?
tetrisandblovilweb10 4 years ago
awesome!!
unnst 4 years ago
this is stupid
KtothePbaby 4 years ago
Its not fake jesus christ.
Completly possible, its just like a printer.
Keeps memory of where it is. And paints.
Explains why they cant pick it up after starting, and why they have to move that slow.
LonleyDesire 4 years ago 3
They have to move slow because the pic dissappears if it separates from the back. You can do any # of colors, but the more complex you make it the easier it is to spot.
pnmcrew 4 years ago
oh and by the way the light stick is so easy to explain it makes me sad you didnt figure it out minkette. the pic was painted beforehand using glow in the dark paint and if you were born yesterday you need to shine light on things that glow first then they glow in the dark. thats what the light on the stick is for. who are the ones who lived in the caves.
thisnoteislegaltende 4 years ago
the wheels turn at differnt speed when it turns and are very easy to track distances with. A simple computation can find location based on the varied distances/speeds of the two wheels. I should need to explain this part, but... If it knows where it is, It looks at the picture saved in memory and finds out what pixels should be under it.
RainMan002 4 years ago
I dont care how advanced you think our technoligy is this stick does not know where it is on this loose floppy sheet of paper. and if you want to use the overhead encoder arguement telling the roller when and where to lay the ink that idea is out the window because the paper is so loose. Now im waiting for someone to come back with a real intelectual arguement other than ( yer a stupid feller hughhh hughh we is super smort in stuff we is techtictinilyis advaynced
thisnoteislegaltende 4 years ago
aghhh your stupidity is unbearable. Explain to me how this roller knows exactly when and where to lay the ink when the movements are so random. The printer on a stick arguement is plausable if the movements were precise for instance I start at the top and the stick is programed to lay a set pattern wich is the top portion of the pic(for fun we will say its the eyes)then the sticks program goes to the second stage of the pic and i begin at the same place just below the first portion(now the nose)
thisnoteislegaltende 4 years ago
It's not that cool. Whats amazing is how incredibly stupid you are. The printer is super simple. Is the odometer fake on your truck? No? Now calculate the difference in distance on two independent wheels that are a fixed distance from each other. Fairly basic to ascertain location and position then apply the appropriate ink. Think a little. Seriously it's backwards to think this is complicated, and pre-industrial to think it must be fake. Please tell me you'll never breed.
ruxblue 4 years ago 2
Viewers would find this much more believable if this was done on a hard surface. I've watched a couple of these now, and they're either done on a paper where something could be hidden under it to paint a picture or done with a chemical that can be seen with a "laser"
gideonwishes 4 years ago
So what you're saying is that they don't have the technology to paint a monochrome(1 color) picture at a speed that's really slow(as slow as they are rolling it), and at extremely low resolution...??
Have you been living in a fucking cave for the past decade?
staphinfection 4 years ago
Um... you have a case of paranoia, don't you? Seeing and reading things that aren't really there? Where, in what I wrote, does it say that there isn't technology to paint a monochrome picture? What I'm saying is the way that this "pixel roller" is depicted is unbelievable
gideonwishes 4 years ago
Nevermind, I stand corrected. Unlike most people, I actually went and looked it up. The thing with this pixel roller is that once that roller touches the paper, you can't pick it up until after you're done with the picture. Otherwise, the "printer" loses track of where it is and your picture is screwed.
gideonwishes 4 years ago
is that a special paper??
Ducksuce3612 4 years ago
ok i rest my case iv had 2 responses to my comment and both make no sense at all and have no basis. one said im grotesquely ugly yet has never seen a pic of me and the other was something about a man horse. yeah they are defineately special in that only a mother can love sorta way. and im sticking to my guns this is fake and an embarrassment to the american school system. (oh i just invented a DVD rewinder i will sell for only $20 who wants one free shipping)
thisnoteislegaltende 4 years ago
This is not fake, it is a printer on a stick. I have seen in working with my own eyes at an exhibition at the V&A. Not only that, but you can watch one called 'light roller' by clicking on the righthand side here. Try using light on a bassrelief muppetboy.
Minkette 4 years ago
plus - The horse comment was obscure, but I think he was suggesting that since you are so unable to accept anything as technological as a printer on a stick could exist, that you probably find the concept of moving faster than walking pace a feat of witchcraft.
Minkette 4 years ago
more interested on th guy who waved to us
seamonkey157 4 years ago
ok all you uneducated gullable inbred idiots this is not real im sorry not for you but for the people that have to listen to you talk in public and at mc donalds when you get the order wrong. pay attention to the video when he goes over an area that has been painted watch the picture on the edge of the roller sometimes it disapears and reconfigures. the paper is used to disguise it.
thisnoteislegaltende 4 years ago
Listen to you! You're the guy who would fall on his knees and pray to the man riding a horse because you think he's some sort of man-horse-witch-god. It's a fucking dude riding a horse! And in this case, it's a sophisticated printer on a stick! Go to their website, jackass!
BrainDecrease 4 years ago
So wait... you're another dingus that is saying the technology doesn't exist to paint MONOCHROME(1 color) at a really slow pace(as slow as they are rolling it), at an extremely LOW RESOLUTION onto paper??
What fucking cave have you been living in for the past two decades?
staphinfection 4 years ago
i think it would be more believable for many viewers if it was painted on a hard surface instead of paper.
vvinters 4 years ago
place a coin underneath a paper, and then take the back of your pencil, and rubb it against the paper where the coin is.. tada.. "Computer animation in real world" IDI!
kw33l 4 years ago
Does not need to be computer animation. If you have a bassrelief kind of drawing in the surface underneath the canvas, the roller would only paint on the higher areas...
jorgemt62 4 years ago
why isnt anyone adressing the fact that this would be impossible in real life? It is computer animation. It would be possible if you could have a machine that precisely turned the roller at the programed time and stoped the roller at the precise time. and it would have to be a design or a very basic 1 foot x 1 foot repitition picture because the roller is only aproximately 1 foot in circumference and the movements are not precise.....If this fooled you..... you my friend are an idiot
thisnoteislegaltende 4 years ago
You are wrong and you are a grotesquely ugly freak.
apollyon1 4 years ago
It's real. Look it up. They have lots of information on it, and videos of it in action at other art exhibits and stuff. You, my friend, are the idiot.
deathlistfive 4 years ago
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Your f#(&ing stupid
melbournaut 4 years ago
Impossible in real life? The only thing impossible here is what you think your intelligence is.
Although impractical, it would be possible to make a sort of small-scale GPS that had three points around the paper and a receiver to triangulate the printer itself. Then, using a computer program, it would "draw" a box showing where the printer would be and paint what was in that box.
This particular printer doesn't use this technology, but if they did that could be the "Mark 3".
leifsp 3 years ago
you can do the same thing by laying down wax first. no laptop or pc in the world could keep track of such a device in 3space. sorry fake
hunter11111066 4 years ago
This could be achieved after some hard work with a wii remote and some AV software like Jitter. And you have no idea what they could have created for this.
A wii can keep track of it's remote in 3d space :P
CalmAsHinduCow 4 years ago
Think about it, guys...
If this were true, it would be cutting edge... It is revolutionary.
Yet how come it has never been on the news? How come places like this are the only places to find out about it?
It is fake... otherwise, it would have been all over the news at some point, and they'd be advertising it like crazy.
ProtoMixup 4 years ago
ive been a painter for many years and never seen anything like this ....its very cool soon we can do this on our cars top stuff guys......
rumpig327 4 years ago
i'd like to see one of these rollers in real life... the concept is quite interesting.
Sunrise1020 4 years ago
Now you're thinking with pixels.
cp225 4 years ago
COOL!
kenbad 4 years ago
cool now, were totally drawing on our walls
Hikaru5X5 4 years ago
printer-on-a-stick
wahkean 4 years ago 2
[cont..] You can even sometimes in the video se that the wheels are making some kind of "skidmarks" in the paint, as it rolls over the paint. It's probably a light water color, since if added lightly, it wont brush out when rolling over it the second time.
Stop calling this fake, its very feasible. This is how I would have done it.
lunatunatic 4 years ago 3
You shouldn't bother wasting time trying to explain things to people. The same or similar process has already been mentioned several times in the comments, there's a website for it and several other videos. People, especially on YouTube, are stupid... don't worry yourself about it.
bryanthecomposer 4 years ago
[cont..] Using this, the computer that is controlling the paint device, calculates what pixels that should be painted at any given time, as long as the person does not lift the device away from the paper while painting.
lunatunatic 4 years ago 3
You are all so stupid.. I could have made this myself. It is so simple as, that the painter has two wheels. One at each side. When they roll it, even if they turn it, the device will track how long each wheel has gone, and then know exactly what angle and where on the paper you are, accordingly to where you started.
lunatunatic 4 years ago 4
@lunatunatic can you make me one then $2000
2big 11 months ago
Also... creases in the paper don't seem to affect the picture the way it should.
ProtoMixup 4 years ago
You guys should be able to tell... it is fake...
If you look real close, you can see the blur around the Roller... that means it has been edited. You can see the boundary of where the video was doctored.
ProtoMixup 4 years ago
i think that is just variable bit rate compression--not blur.
tvovereasy 4 years ago
(the comment below was in response to someone saying "you can see the blur around the paint roller")
tvovereasy 4 years ago
This really seems like a clever art project instead of some new printing technology. Why don't they share more detail on how it works instead of just mentioning that it "paints pixels". If there was more information it could validate that this is not just a clever hoax/art project.
Empty1016 4 years ago
How does it know where it has to paint and not?
klavierapollo 4 years ago
This is EVIL, The devils work I tell you ! EVIL ! It must be cast in to the sea.
benisthemenace 4 years ago
Crap, now art has turned into being able to vacuum. Looks too much like an old Electrolux sweeper to me and I never liked cleaning house, rofl.
PopArtDiva 4 years ago
this DOES seem rather impossible, because the roller would have to keep track of all the moveents and positions....i dont know what to believe. the cell phone seemed impossible too
Meragness 4 years ago
A piece of hardware that could keep track of its location, either by wheels or possibly tracker balls? That seems impossible! If they could invent that, they would have invented the MOUSE years ago! Of course, they didn't. It's impossible.
SethCaliber 4 years ago
devastating sarcasm, respect.
apollyon1 4 years ago
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I can't believe you people are arguing over a magic trick you'd see at a kid's party. There is dry watercolor under the paper. The roller is dipped in water and when the paper becomes wet, it becomes translucent and picks up the watercolor. The paint bleeds through and you can see it from the opposite side.
WeaponGuy 4 years ago
That would actually take more time and be more expensive than actually building the roller in question.
Maybe I'll go make a several thousand dollar prank and post it on Youtube to make people think it's real!
leifsp 3 years ago
I can't believe that people are so stubborn that they would tell them to "kill themselves" like that absolute moron Kelnar7 over there. . . Honestly, are people so closed-minded that they would condemn such an amazing piece of new technology? It's absolutely pitiful.
What I would like to see is a further advancement of this technology where the brush would be able to paint pictures of several colors.
lishakara 4 years ago 4
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if you actually think the printer on the end of that stick is actually "printing" you are a fool. in the other pixel roller video they dip the printer in paint. um.....why would you need to do that if it really worked? wouldn't it use it's own print cartidges?
this is an old trick, if you seriously think this pixel roller is real you should kill yourself.
Kelnar7 4 years ago
LoL you're an idiot. If technology surprises you to the point where you assume it must be a magic trick, then maybe you need to return to your tribe in the jungle.
BrainDecrease 4 years ago 4
umm yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do w/ the wheels on the bottom of the roller. or maybe the fact that they can't lift the roller off the paper once they start painting. The wheels send back information about the roller's movements so it knows when to print, it's not a fucking trick.
willum1989 4 years ago 2
No! It is a PixelRoller. Damn, read the name of the video.
igotpodedinstead 4 years ago
Love it. Why not the Mona Lisa?
beastshawnee 4 years ago
very cool
eldavide333 4 years ago
Looks like relief printing...the inked wood cut, linoleum or what ever is under the sheet. The pressure from the roller cause the ink on the plate behind the sheet to seep through.
SquishyParts 4 years ago
what happened to good ol'silk screening? cos the quality isn't as good as a great silk screen anyhow right?
nivsha 4 years ago
it's a new technology. why compare something that is just starting to be perfected to something that has been mainly perfected such as what you term in the comparison as a, "great silk screen".
bbaggy 4 years ago
Its a relief painting, rasied surface under neath paper, when pressed with light ink or paint raised image underneath becomes visable on paper as the roller presses paint against the paper which is pressed from behind by relief image. This is old school pretending to be new school
Blue24U 4 years ago
could indeed be true. nice theory..!
Talatacus 4 years ago
new school doesn't wanna hear that, shhhhhhh they might cry in a dark corner ;-) pulling yo chains. i admire the thought and tech behind it, but why replace something that is effective all these years with something that takes so much from the environment to produce and if you trash it, takes up mass room in landfills no? Think about it.
nivsha 4 years ago
This shit is really interesting. I am bored of seeing it demonstrated on white. The artefacts / print quality makes one think that certain subject matter would be stronger than photographic images of human faces.
I would like to see something useful, given its limitations, like printing out a giant map.
midinerd 4 years ago
Hey, look. A giant iron-on.
zufallx 4 years ago
i think its real
prestonrm 4 years ago
you are all wrong,its time lapse images watch the surrounding paper where the"printer" isnt, the paper changes shapes,although very convincing,still just time lapse.
D2tharock 4 years ago
That's just because the sheet isn't fixed to anything, but suspended just above the surface. Go to the site, read how it was done. It's art.
loveablemoggy 4 years ago
WHAT THE FUCK , THATS THE WORSE THEORY EVER !
ITLL PROBABLY TAKE MORE EFFORT DOIN IT THE WAY U EXPLAINED to MAKE "A FAKE" FUCKING DUMMASS
harpguinness 4 years ago
..... btw. @ d2tharock
harpguinness 4 years ago
you are retarded,..btw..lol..kus..kyjell....dduuuhhhh
D2tharock 4 years ago
wow sorry, guess im a dumbass, you are entitled to your opinion friend. sorry,ohh....one more thing..fuck you very much hahahaha
D2tharock 4 years ago
i can see what makes you say that. but i believe it's probably because the camera's fps isn't high enough to capture the changes in the shape of the paper continuously.
Talatacus 4 years ago
Don't mind the other losers giving you a hands down. Your observation is quite logical and in fact good, though questionable.. keep it up dude!
Talatacus 4 years ago
its cool,i dont really care they can have an opinion,i just thought id put mine out there hahaha
D2tharock 4 years ago
If there was some sort of relief image underneath you would see it ripple the paper when pressure is applied, no such thing happens.
xraptor10 4 years ago
there is a raised image underneath teh sheet and the paint only connects to the raised part or something, it's so not what you idiots think it is.
Kelnar7 4 years ago
lol and you calling us idiots . nice 1 dumbass
sk8army777 4 years ago
Could this be reactive paper which is set off by a heat source?
Manyclouds1980 4 years ago
haha its funny that kelnar tells people to "open your mind" when clearly his is air locked...
banishedfay 4 years ago
this isnt fake, its just technology, and it doesnt even work tha well yet, the pictures look pretty crappy to me, but im sure they'll improve
batmanthecool 4 years ago
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Why the paper? if the "printer" is "printing", then do it on a non reliefed wall. Helloooooo?
squeegeeboy29 4 years ago
my god there are some idiots out there who just don't understand what you can do with technology. What do you want this guy to do - paint on every wall - then what? Paint it white, wait for it to dry to start again? Just so that idiots like YOU will believe that this fairly simple idea is actually possible?
jasnwest 4 years ago
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lol if that technology existed they would have been using it long ago. why do they have to keep dipping it into the paint if it's a printer? lmao cause it's not real that's why.
Kelnar7 4 years ago
"lol if that technology existed they would have been using it long ago" Duh! Ookay... "lol if the internet existed they would have been using it long ago?" Does THAT make any sense Kelnar7? No, it's just been invented! Idiot.
jasnwest 4 years ago
Printers use... ink... ink is like... paint. Oh wow Kelnar7, lemme guess, Graduated top of your class?
SkazzMedia 4 years ago
you moron, if it's a printer you don't need to dip it in paint, it would use print cartridges. how come so many people think this is real?
Kelnar7 4 years ago
Are you joking... The point of it is do it your self paint rolling printing, not a printer on a stick.
SkazzMedia 4 years ago
"PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld "printer", based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand." Why dont you read the description dumbass!
sk8warrior 4 years ago
it isnt that hard, it is a printer with motion detection, and people who say its fake must be very limited with their technology
swanni09 4 years ago
it looks great...but is it really art? or just a other way of printing?
bellyfetisch 4 years ago
depends ... a picture had to be done before hand, but does that count?
swanni09 4 years ago
Kelnar, stop embarrassing yourself.
Artoras 4 years ago 2
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lol i still can't believe how stupid the human race is. the fact most of the people who post actually believe something like this exists...it amazes me. open your mind, idiots, it's fake.
Kelnar7 4 years ago
your a fucktard
dkatzonthemic 4 years ago
Guessing you've never printed something out on one of those newfangled itranet-machines?
It's a printer without the casing, on a stick. Pretty simple if your IQ score is larger than your shoe size.
MissOchistic 4 years ago 4
wow your'e a douche. "it's a fake" is NOT the appropriate sentence after "open your mind, idiots"
Mfok 4 years ago
lol I still can't believe how stupid the human race is if they dont know shit about modern technology
sk8warrior 4 years ago
oo i want one!
Sheepies 4 years ago
dude soo do i
KOowalla 4 years ago
since it is connected to the computer they are prolly just using a distinct canvas size on the computer that will be the same size as the paper and the roller is using motion sensors to where it is at all time. so when the person moves the roller over a certain area it is actually moving the cursor in the computer which is acting like a scanner
mshpyro 4 years ago
thats my question exactly, why would there be such a weird shaped roller for a texture rub.
biggy887766 4 years ago
Totally real product, they are still developing. Check their website for other stuff they've done. Can't wait to see the pixel roller perfected.
eenerton 4 years ago
oi fanc pants, just how long ago was this 5th grade thing? last year? see any texture under the canvas/paper whatever it is? see the thing on the end of the pole he is holding? aint just painting over a texture mate
Jbo332 4 years ago
hmmm - nice rubbing
Reminds me of fifth grade art
Can't believe people fall for these things
fancpants 4 years ago
I believe it's a little hard to do rubbing with paint; paint would cling to every part of the paper and would not create the desired image.
Also, if you visit their website you can read up on it and also see images where they paint right onto the wall.
CONCEiiT 4 years ago
youtubester if you cheack back on the first one i've got a guess, i think its the difference in speed between wheels on the outer edges of the 'brush' they move at different speeds when you turn it much like the inner and out wheels of a car when it goes round a corner, but as i've said before, i'm mereley speculating lol
Hakashin 4 years ago
oh i get how it works now.. in the other vid i didnt see the box on the "brush" but how does it know where you are ?
yootoobster07 4 years ago
umm yeah i just want to know if this will work on the 101 freeway in hollywood cause me and my TEAM ALEX would like to throw up are logo at 3 am in the morning using that niffty roller of ur's..
alex mendoza
TEAMALEX
drunkinZOMBIEdiarys 4 years ago
how does it work? forgive me guys but this is totally beyond me! please explain! its so interesting!
magic2chick 4 years ago
Some of you remember when a flatbed scanner and a VLB SCSI card were a couple thousand dollars --Then came the cheap serial hand held scanner and auto-stich. This looks like the old hand helds with printing.
awackocrank 4 years ago
Brass rubbing on a giant scale.
Pinchbeck 4 years ago
I've never seen people stuggle so much with paint roller.. its a paint roller people! It's like watching a 3 year old tie shoelaces.
richpatch 4 years ago
I'm pretty sure it's because he/she has to be careful to keep it as one continuous stroke, lest the coordinates get funny.
eatsleepmusic 4 years ago
I disagree with swift and zac...walls dont crease when you move over them. That is a shadow you see. Regardless. I have seen a lot of foolish comments, but what I havent seen was one that was actually asking something that I would like to know, so here it is. Can it paint in more than just red? can it paint on a surface less smooth than the paper?
grnwvfm 4 years ago
i agree with "swiftdemise" it measures the distance each wheel travels to keep it's bearing
ZacsEpicEphemera 4 years ago
no printers stop working when you tilt them
koolmexican 4 years ago
you can see it smear a little by the "brush". also, if the ink was underneath the paper would stick instead of still moving as if nothing was on it.
armpitdew 4 years ago
Just do a search on google for pixel roller. You can find more information.
comet1961 4 years ago
Umm.. he does go off the paper a few times by accident, and it paints onto the wall.
I'm pretty sure there are wheels under it which the computer can use to know where the roller is in relation to where it started painting. Notice how all the drawings are done in one go, he can't pick up the roller and go back.
swiftdemise 4 years ago
I love how anytime people see something they aren't used to they all scream fake.
For all those who are claiming fake, I look forward to YOUR posts re-creating the effect using the methods you claim they are using.
Share your videos with me if you have anything more than text to share.
theREALZaru 4 years ago
lets see one where you draw directly on the wall without any paper.
neutron7 4 years ago
Notice they never go straight onto a wall. Thats because the image is already under/on the paper and they simply activate it with pressure or a chemical reaction.
ENGLEESH 4 years ago
PS... I bet they're a public company and this is nothing more than a stock scam for a technology that doesn't exist.
InvestigatEverything 4 years ago
This is nothing more than wet paint behind paper. As he rolls it, the wet paint seeps through the paper. It's a dead give away at 1:30 - 1:42 in the video, as the roller that is pressing the paper down picks up paint and drags it along the front side of the face. He soon stops because he knows if he keeps going the roller will drag paint all over and give it away.
InvestigatEverything 4 years ago
if that's the case, why is it not smearing all over the place in the one that starts around 1.50?
you really have to "investigate everything" a little bit better.
jernov 4 years ago
It would be way simple to design a system to sense the exact location on an x-y plane for the roller/print-head unit, and it's orientation. I was using a wireless digitizer system over 20 years ago that could sense where the pen was an a large board to draw graphics on an ancient computer. It used no sensors in the board but had a strip near the top and one on the side to pick up the pen-tip's position. Something similar could be used to allow the roller to be re-positioned.
puggle91 4 years ago
problem with this theory is that each stroke would have to be in the exact same direction in order for the sprayer, which would run back and forth on an axis, could paint appropriately... as soon as you got off going sideways, it would lose it's point of reference.
InvestigatEverything 4 years ago
No problem - you simply have a sensor or transmitter at each side of the roller. Then the head orientation wouldn't matter as the PC could easily triangulate the exact position and angle of the head given two reference points on the x-y plane. Try it yourself - draw two equidistant points on a piece of paper and see what happens when you join them!
puggle91 4 years ago
As a point of reference, look at the video from 1:14 to 1:30. You will see that he catches a large part of wet paint as it seeps through the paper from below onto the roller and drags the paint across the front of the face and then back up the neck. This gives it away as a fake.
Good effect though, it does look real.
InvestigatEverything 4 years ago
nice sleuthing but its real.
cforce05 4 years ago
It's not real... look again at the time reference I gave... it is clear that it is dragging the paint. The face gets messed up.
InvestigatEverything 4 years ago
I do believe that that is part of the picture. It looks like that part of the face is shaded, which makes sense. Instead of using a light background, the picture you're referring to uses a dark background. The operator also missed a strip when he made the supposedly offending stroke. Whoopsie. :P
tungstentoaster 4 years ago
It's like that robot that cleans your house and finds it's way back to it's charger. Now if it did full color, that would be a trick!
stringanime 4 years ago
I dont understand why so many people are so quick to shout "fake". It's quite easy to imagine how a concept like this could work. Imagine how your old ball mouse figured out where to move the pointer on the screen, just an x and y axis and some sensors. Combine that with some kind of printer technology, hook it up to the pc and there ya go.. On the other hand, it could be a deception.. Who cares?
chrisabri 4 years ago
The key that the image is wet under the cloth is that some strokes have to be gone over two or more times in the same spot to get anything. If the roller is in fact PRINTING you should get even coats and image everytime a stroke is made.
kbrod666 4 years ago
you can tell it's not wet underneath becuse it would bleed around the edges very badly on this thin paper. AND in order to leave parts of the paper blank the roller must put out very small amounts of paint.
xTheCheshireCatx 4 years ago
it doesn't have an even coat because it's not printing it's painting
Wookiecan 4 years ago
Yes but if you pick your old ball mouse up off the desk and put it down again, the pointer stays in the same place on the scre