Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1987-04-03
1988-05-17
Adams, Russell E.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273157R, 354110, 354291, G03B 1500
Patent
active
047454245
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The game entitled "puzzle" is known, which game consists in reconstituting an image by juxtaposing, in an appropriate manner, elements obtained by cutting the image along a more or less complicated contour. It is self-evident that the image produced is always the same and cannot be modified.
On the other hand, in the technique of the recording of an animated drawing, recourse is currently had to the special effects technique, which consists in causing a moving subject to evolve, on an invariable background landscape, without having to redesign the landscape for each image filmed. In order to achieve this, the subject is painted in each one of its positions on a transparent sheet which is then applied in the appropriate position to the drawing representing the landscape. As the subject is opaque, it masks the subjacent portion of landscape, while the remainder of the landscape is visible by transparency. A variant of this process is utilized in the filming of certain sequences of film, using real people. The people are filmed in the studio against a transparent neutral background, and the scenery is filmed without the people. The film of the people is then projected in superposition on that of the scenery, in such a manner as to give the illusion that the scene thus reconstituted was actually filmed.
Thus, in all these known processes, the evolutive subject is filmed separately in a frame which is not that of the final film.
The present invention relates to a method for producing an evolutive photographic composition, which method is distinguished from the above-mentioned methods in that the subject which it is desired to represent at different locations of the photograph is photographed in the particular frame in which it evolves.
To this end, the method according to the invention is defined in that it consists in photographing the scenery alone, that is to say the elements of the landscape which are intended to remain unchanged in the photographic composition, in causing a predetermined grid of registration lines to appear on the basic photograph thus obtained, and then, without moving the camera, in photographing, as many times as is desired, the evolutive subject by placing it on each occassion at a different location of the same landscape, in such a manner as to obtain a plurality of prints, each marked with the same grid of registration lines as the basic photograph, and which are distinguished from one another only by the position of the subject, in cutting the said prints along the registration lines of the grid, in such a manner as to isolate the element or the elements containing the variable subject, and then in producing evolutive images by applying at least one of the said elements of at least one of the prints to its corresponding location on the basic photograph.
The grid of registration lines may be formed by a pattern on the scale of the final print, which is placed on the ground glass screen of the viewfinder of the camera. This pattern may conprise a mesh which is square, rectangular or of any other appropriate shape, provided that the mesh is identical for all the prints which are made.
It will be clearly noted that the method according to the invention has nothing in common with a puzzle, because in the latter the puzzle pieces are all unique and represent image elements which can occupy only a single place in the final composition, while in the present method the variable subject can be placed, at the discretion of the owner, on one day at a given location on the basic photograph and on another day at a different location, while restructuring or while destructuring the image. The cut photograph elements which are applied to the basic photograph conceal the subjacent positions of the latter, but are perfectly integrated into the overall landscape, given that the said elements represent around the subject portions of scenery which are identical to those of the said basic photograph.
It is likewise understood that the composition according to the invention is clearly distinguished from th
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