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Long-distance doodles

By Catherine Zandonella

14 July 2001

YOU can now play noughts and crosses with an opponent on the other side of
the world—with only pen and paper. Just draw a grid and make your move.
Tele-Graffiti does the rest, transmitting your move over the Internet and
projecting it onto your oppenent’s paper.

Tele-Graffiti, invented at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, consists
of a digital camera and a high-resolution projector. As you sketch your design,
the camera captures your doodling and transmits the digitised image to the other
Tele-Graffiti, where the projector casts the image onto a blank sheet of paper.
The image is so sharp…

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