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A man using a light table to trace an image. Tracing is the act of copying an image or work of art by drawing over its lines, especially through the use of transparent overlays. [1] Tracing can provide a way for a person to develop their artistic skills for example when it comes to learning anatomy. It is however frowned upon in many art circles.
Tracing paper is paper made to have low opacity, allowing light to pass through.It is named as such for its ability for an image to be traced onto it. The modern version of tracing paper was developed for architects and design engineers to create drawings which could be copied precisely using the diazo copy process.
A pounce wheel, also known as a tracing wheel. Pouncing (Italian Spolvero) is an art technique used for transferring an image from one surface to another using a fine powder called pounce. It is similar to tracing, and is useful for creating copies of a sketch outline to produce finished works.
By tracing an object, the filmmaker creates a silhouette (called a matte) that can be used to extract that object from a scene for use on a different background. While blue- and green-screen techniques have made the process of layering subjects in scenes easier, rotoscoping still plays a large role in the production of visual effects imagery.
Tracing (art), copying an object or drawing, especially with the use of translucent tracing paper Tracing (criminology) , determining crime scene activity from trace evidence left at crime scenes Tracing (law) , a legal process by which a claimant demonstrates what has happened to their property
Drafting pantograph in use Pantograph used for scaling a picture. The red shape is traced and enlarged. Pantograph 3d rendering. A pantograph (from Greek παντ- 'all, every' and γραφ- 'to write', from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical ...
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Museum of Modern Art, New York: What Is a Print? Thompson, Wendy. "The Printed Image in the West: History and Techniques". In Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000 – . (October 2003) André Béguin's dictionary;enormous dictionary of terms, relating more to the printing than the creation of the image