spirals not so laborious !!!

[Ross Macintosh]

Eric - I think its time you applied for a job at Wacom or Logitech. Your pen idea could make *them* rich.

Maybe someone knows - can an idea like eric's be patented without a working prototype or the design of the electronics?

Regards, Ross

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[phurm]

Be sure to use caution with this laser pen. If your finger slips too far down you could get burned! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[Ross Macintosh]

And Paul, if you point it towards your face you can go blind! Just think of the product liability!

Regards, Ross

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[Turan]

Sorry for this, I think my question a few postings back was lost by the fun laser pen stuff.

Can anyone answer? i.e. the Q was, is this a labour intensive as I'm making out?

Turan

[Eric]

...my fault for drifting there...
BTW did anybody try my ever decreasing square-to-circle methodkindathing?

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[james_frost]

Sorry guys, been done before.

Check out www.anoto.com (developed by ericsson) - digital paper with bluetooth. Interesting read. Its all about the dots, ya know...

James

[Eric]

well i expected it had already been invented, i believe something like 95% of all patent applications have been "done before" last time i looked into it there was a very expesive search fee, then after patenting you then have to sell the damn thing! it's enough to put anybody off
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[RAMWolff44]

Hi all,

OK, I have worked on Gary's and Ivan's tut's and you know I am stumped. I can not get a perfectly sementrical spiral. Almost but not perfect. This is one shape I would love to be able to cheat to achieve.

Have someone come up with an easier way for the mathmatically challenged person, like myself??

Just thought I'd ask! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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[Christine Farrelly]

I hate to say it but...

Coreldraw has a spiral tool.

Christine

[RAMWolff44]

Luckily I have CorelDraw, which I don't like to much but I guess it's handy for this sort of thing!!

Strangely enough, after I had created my spiral in Draw11 I saved it as a .cdr file, native file for Draw and one that XaraX is supposed to support and open. WRONG!! So then I saved it as an .ai file and it gave me version options so I chose version 5 and it opened right up in XaraX. So I have my way around this but I still think in the new version of XaraX that a quick shape tool should include this one, IMO! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Thanks for the heads up Christine!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Oh, in case anyone needs a good spiral here is one for you to download and use! I also included a few other shapes that XaraX can't do or at least not quite like these! I did bother to add shadows and a bevel here and there for effect but the file is quite lite!! Thought I'd share the wealth!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

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[This message was edited by RAMWolff on December 29, 2003 at 11:58.]