I have a LightScribe compatible external CD/DVD burner. It came with a LightScribe disc that I haven’t taken the plastic off still to this day. Since it only came with a single one I could never decide which one thing to use that one LightScribe disc for, back when I was still burning things on CD and DVD.
You didn't miss much. It took 20-30 minutes each pass, plus the extra cost for the discs.
But even if you were fine with that, it came out too light under actual lighting conditions, even after you burned it twice, which defeats the use case of making it look professionally labeled. For home use, a Sharpie beat it in every way.
I can't comment on this particular project, but I know that similar projects have allowed adding images to the unused portions of the disc. A given region of the disc cannot be both image and data, but the disc can contain an inner region of data and imagery in the outer unused portion.
DVD codec probably allows for a certain amount of error correction to recover from scratches, images can still look readable to humans despite a bit of noise, I wonder if there’s enough overlap there to meet in the middle and have an image that also stores data
Throwback to lightscribe which I haven't thought of in many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
I have a LightScribe compatible external CD/DVD burner. It came with a LightScribe disc that I haven’t taken the plastic off still to this day. Since it only came with a single one I could never decide which one thing to use that one LightScribe disc for, back when I was still burning things on CD and DVD.
You didn't miss much. It took 20-30 minutes each pass, plus the extra cost for the discs.
But even if you were fine with that, it came out too light under actual lighting conditions, even after you burned it twice, which defeats the use case of making it look professionally labeled. For home use, a Sharpie beat it in every way.
I have the same issue in video games. I always end up at the end not having used my unique items because I only have 1.
same but brain
DiscT@2 (1), the granddaddy of them all.
This was followed up by Labelflash in 2007(2).
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscT@2
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labelflash
I had one of these as well... What a trip down memory lane, thanks for sharing.
I've always wondered if this could be used to create 3d holograms.
Truly, China has overtaken the Western world in innovation.
I wonder if the disk can still hold data at the same time.
Wow! Light Scribe on the data side!
Do they actually play?
I can't comment on this particular project, but I know that similar projects have allowed adding images to the unused portions of the disc. A given region of the disc cannot be both image and data, but the disc can contain an inner region of data and imagery in the outer unused portion.
DVD codec probably allows for a certain amount of error correction to recover from scratches, images can still look readable to humans despite a bit of noise, I wonder if there’s enough overlap there to meet in the middle and have an image that also stores data
star graph looks very inorganic