| ▲ | DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs(github.com) |
| 120 points by bpierre 5 hours ago | 28 comments |
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| ▲ | apitman 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Throwback to lightscribe which I haven't thought of in many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe |
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| ▲ | danielmeskin an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Glad I read the article, this is fascinating: > In 2012, a LightScribe optical drive was successfully used by Maher El-Kady, a graduate of UCLA, to turn a specially prepared graphite oxide layer coated onto a DVD into graphene.[10] El-Kady and Richard Kaner, his lab professor, used an unmodified LightScribe drive. The disc was prepared by coating the disc with an aqueous solution of graphite oxide and allowing it to dry. Areas of the coating illuminated by the LightScribe laser were turned into graphene. Various shapes can be drawn, which allowed the scientist duo essentially to laser-print an ultracapacitor on graphene using consumer-grade technology. | |
| ▲ | QuantumNomad_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | sam1714 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | TurkTurkleton 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Huh, that wasn't my experience. I mean, it absolutely was slow especially with sufficiently complex labels, but they generally came out fine. Granted, you absolutely couldn't just drop any arbitrary image into the LightScribe software and have it come out looking good, you'd have to mess with the contrast, but black-and-white text and line art would come out fine. And more legible than Sharpie, with my handwriting. |
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| ▲ | OptionOfT 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. | | |
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| ▲ | xattt 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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 | | |
| ▲ | jonah-archive an hour ago | parent [-] | | I still have a DiscT@2 capable drive running (a Yamaha CRW-F1), though I haven't tried the imaging capability in... geez, 20 years. |
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| ▲ | Breakthrough 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I had one of these as well... What a trip down memory lane, thanks for sharing. |
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| ▲ | Animats 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I used to have a label system called Neato, which provided round CD labels you could make on a printer, along with a tool to press them accurately onto the non-recording side of a CD-R. There were even transparent labels, so the resulting disk looked like a commercially produced disk. |
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| ▲ | jonhohle 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Windows 2000 & XP discs had something like this, but on the label side. |
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| ▲ | LeoPanthera 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is anyone still making new optical drives? |
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| ▲ | truncate an hour ago | parent [-] | | Probably. Bluray still exists, still a popular medium for selling games on PS/Xbox and to certain extent movies to people who like to watch on their high-end equipment. | | |
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| ▲ | NDlurker 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wow! Light Scribe on the data side! |
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| ▲ | FriedPickles 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've always wondered if this could be used to create 3d holograms. |
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| ▲ | Larrikin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do they actually play? |
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| ▲ | sourweasel 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | jedbrooke 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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 |
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| ▲ | DANmode 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do folks here know the data goes “into” the label through the clear plastic? A fellow xth grader did a science project on this, and I’ll never forget it. |
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| ▲ | anonym29 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| star graph looks very inorganic |
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| ▲ | kuberwastaken 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's what happens when your project randomly blows up through a translated tweet haha |
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| ▲ | carplaybits 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | cowlevel 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Truly, China has overtaken the Western world in innovation. I wonder if the disk can still hold data at the same time. |
