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camera lucida| In art, a common drawing aid in the 17th century that worked on similar principles to the less practical camera obscura (which transmitted an external scene through a small hole in the wall of a darkened room, forming an inverted image on the opposite wall). The camera lucida uses a prism and mirrors to project the image of an external object onto a flat, drawing surface so that it can be traced. |
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