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[empyrean_mirror]

Type: Text
Sender ID: paradisaea (Kaveh)
To: Public
Subject: Fireworks + Book Club
Warnings: Totally absolutely completely legal extracurricular activities

Given current events, I've had a few projects I've been pondering. I don't suppose anyone would be interested in making handmade fireworks? With precautions taken, of course, these are just for fun at festivals.

While I'm on the subject, how many of you are familiar with cameras, or other ways to take pictures, in your own worlds? Would you mind telling me much about them.

Ah, and one more thing. I've been considering getting some people together for a research project, of a sort. Or I suppose, something like a study group and a book club. I'd like to discuss it in person, though, so please feel free to drop by the Cafe.

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[telepathicignorance]

I can tell you about cameras.

(They don't like Kaveh... but they like what they're pretty sure he's doing here.)

[empyrean_mirror]

[Kaveh didn't even do anything to you, Chris!]

It'd be a huge help. I haven't worked on this specific kind of technology before.

[telepathicignorance]

(And Alhaitham was literally just matching their own asshole energy they brought to the table.

It doesn't matter to them: Alhaitham got the brunt of them being sick and tired of people being weird about their telepathy and now Kaveh is guilty by association.)

Okay do the basic explanation is you have a box with a lense that focuses light coming in--that's what makes the images--on a point in the back. In a regular camera this point will hit a mirror that bounces the images up to the user's eye like a periscope and a light sensitive film. When the user takes a picture the camera flashes a super bright light that burns the image onto the film.

In cameras like the ones in the shellphones, the lens focuses the image onto a sensor that feeds the image into a computer that displays it for the user.

(They attach a diagram. It illustrates the components with labels... and it honestly looks like a five year old drew it with a crayon.

Chris has like, 0 drawing skills.)

Video cameras are basically the same, they just take a lot of images in quick succession.

You got any particular needs with this camera you're building?

[empyrean_mirror]

Oh! We have kameras in Teyvat, they work fairly similarly. The flash imprint, I mean, the sensors aren't something we have. I might have to see if I can take apart a spare shellphone...

I'm hoping for something small enough to fit in one hand and captures things like text fairly accurately, so the Kameras at home are too unwieldy. And the shellphones are connected to a network...those can be monitored.

[telepathicignorance]

The problem with digital cameras is some of the components can be microscopic and really hard to manufacture, you might be better off cannibalizing a shellphone to make it.

I'm not even sure how they managed it here. I know lenses are possible without advanced manufacturing, and you can create perfect metal wire by getting someone with the right magic to draw metal through an appropriately sized hole... maybe there's magical components filling in for some of the bits that'd be mundane in my world...

[empyrean_mirror]

Many of Mehrak's components are made with runes and elemental energy, so I'll have to see what I can reverse engineer. Microscopic might be tricky...I have to assume most of the current technology here is fused with magic to some degree or another.

The real issue is storing the sensor data and then having it useable later. The advantage of film is that it's fairly simple to print--Kameras do so instantly, even--but it's large and easy to damage. Conversely, digital forms of data are easier to have covertly monitored, and have to be converted somehow to be readable later. It might work to have the sensor transmit the image to something that prints onto film, they don't necessarily need to be in one piece.

[oh great he's inventing a polaroid gopro.]

[telepathicignorance]

That might work better.

[empyrean_mirror]

The real question would be range. And I suppose making it discreet. I thought about attaching them to the crystal butterflies but they're not exactly the height of subtlety.

[telepathicignorance]

Does it need to be robotic drone? You could hide it in your clothing. Build it so it looks like some kind of fashion accessory.