# Scanning for time: Science and art on a photocopier

## TL;DR

This paper explores how combining photocopier scanning with moving objects can create images that reveal physical properties like vibration and rotation, offering a novel method for analyzing motion.

## Contribution

It introduces a technique that uses standard office photocopiers to visualize and analyze dynamic physical phenomena through combined motion and scanning.

## Key findings

- Creates images showing vibrational and rotational motion
- Enables analysis of wave and rotational properties visually
- Demonstrates a new application of photocopiers for physics visualization

## Abstract

Combine the scanning properties of a common office photocopier with an object in motion to create stunning imagery. Produce a scan or hard copy that records the artifact of two motions, the moving object and the moving photocopier scan bar. Images illustrate and allow for analysis a variety of physical characteristics that happen over time: wavelength, frequency, amplitude and other wave and rotational properties. Investigate vibrational and rotational motion just by the press of a button!

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1812.09434