Rainbow New Doc

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1. INTRODUCTION

Rainbow technology, a breakthrough in digital data storage enables us to store up to a

massive 450GB on just a piece of paper. Rainbow Storage is a group of techniques to store

digital data known in as some rainbow colors, format, color and combinations and some

symbols therefore a rainbow picture will be generated. The technique is used to achieve high-

density storage. With the help of Rainbow system we would be watching full-length high

definition videos from a piece of paper! The main attraction is the cheap paper. The Rainbow

technology is feasible because printed text, readable by the human eye is a very wasteful use

of the potential capacity of paper to store data.

By printing the data encoded in a denser way much higher capacities can be achieved.

Paper is, of course, bio-degradable, unlike CDs or DVDs. And sheets of paper also cost a

fraction of the cost of a CD or DVD. This boon to digital data storage is developed by Sainul

Abideen, university technology student at the Muslim educational society Engineering

College in Kerala.


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2. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE

Therefore looks like a print-out of the modern art. The paper can then be read through

a specially developed scanner and the contents decoded into their Data stored in rainbow

format on an ordinary paper. It uses geometric shapes such as squares and hexagons to

represent data patterns, instead of the usual binary method that uses ones and zeros to

represent data. Besides, color is also used in the Rainbow system, to represent other data

elements.

Fig2.1: Data stored in rainbow format on an ordinary paper

Files such as text, images, sounds and video clips are encoded in "rainbow format" as

colored circles, triangles, squares and so on, and printed as dense graphics on paper at a

density of 2.7GB per square inch. An RVD original digital format and viewed Rainbow

feasible text, human wasteful or played. Technology because eye use is by a of the is the very

the printed readable potential capacity of paper to store data the in a denser way. By printing

much higher data encoded capacities can be achieved. The retrieval of data is done by

scanning the paper or the plastic sheet containing the data into a scanner and later reading it

over monitor. Instead of using 0s and 1s, we use color dots where each color dot can

represent minimum 8 bits (1 byte).


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3. PROCESS OF STROING DATA

Printing at 1,200 dots per inch (DPI) leads to a theoretical maximum of 1,440,000

colored dots per per dot), the maximum possible storage is approximately 140 megabytes for

a sheet of square inch. If a scanner can reliably distinguish between 256 unique colors (thus

encoding one byte A4 papermuch lower when the necessary error correction is employed. If

the scanner were able to accurately distinguish between 16,777,216 colors (24 bits, or 3 bytes

per dot), the capacity would triple, but it still falls well below the media stories' claims of

several hundred gigabytes.

Printing this quantity of unique colors would require specialized equipment to

generate many spot colors. The process colormodel used by most printers provides only fourcolors, with additional colors simulated by a halftone pattern.

Fig3.2: Process of Data

At least one of three things must be true for the claim to be valid:

The paper must be printed and scanned at a much higher resolution than 1,200 DPI,
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The printer and scanner must be able to accurately produce and distinguish betweenan extraordinary number of distinct color values

The compression scheme must be a revolutionary lossless compression algorithm.

If Rainbow's "geometric" algorithm is to be encoded and decoded by a computer, it

would equally viable to store the compressed data on a conventional disk rather than printing

it to paper or other non-digital medium. Printing something as dots on a page rather than bits

on a disk will not change the underlying compression ratio, so a lossless compression

algorithm that could store 250 gigabytes within a few hundred megabytes of data would be

revolutionary indeed. Likewise, data can be compressed with any algorithm and subsequently

printed to paper as colored dots. The amount of data that can be reliably stored in this way is

limited by the printer and scanner, as described above.
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4. IMPLEMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

Picture compressed represented in any color medium. For retrieving the contents from

the medium, picture from can be captured color "Although light and color and data can be

generated the combinations. environmental differences shading is a problem, it can overcome

up to a certain limit by using efficient Discs can now be developed from plastic paper too

which will be able to hold 450 GB of data. In order to read the Rainbow prints, all that is

required is a mapping function. Scannerand specialized software. Smaller scanners could fit

inside laptop computers or mobile phones, and read SIM card-sized RVD's containing 5GB

of data. The recording media could be either paper or plastic sheets.

Fig4.3: Waste Plastic Bottles

The piece of paper or even plastic sheet storing the data has just to be scanned in the scanner

and read over the monitor. A scanning drive based on the Rainbow software has

simultaneously been developed which will come in smaller sizes to be initially carried with

the laptops and later to fit into their bodies. The developer is simultaneously moulding the

technology into 'Rainbow Cards' which will be of SIM card size and store 5 GB of data

equivalent to three films of DVD quality. As 'Rainbow Cards' will become Popular, Rainbow

Card Readers will replace CD drives of mobile phone and computer notebooks and will

enable more data in portable forms for mini digital readers. Large scale manufacture of the

Rainbow card will bring down its cost to just 50 paisa.


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5. DEMONSTRATION

Reporter of Arab News claims to have seen 450 pages of fully printed foolscap being

stored on a 4-square inch piece of Rainbow paper. The reporter also claimed

that he was shown a 45-second video clip that was stored using the Rainbow system on a

plain piece of paper. Abideen has demonstrated a 45-second video clip being encoded on

paper, termed by him, a rainbow video disk - RVD - and then played back through a

computer with an RVD scanner attached. In another demonstration he has shown 432 A4

pages of paper rainbow format encoded and stored on a two-inch Sainul Abideen, the

developer, explaining feature of his brainchild -Rainbow Technology The by two-inch square

of paper.

CD, DVDs. a thing of past. Currently, of the several options available for data storage, DVDs

are the best mode, but are yet expensive. Sianul has said that a CD or DVD consumes 16gms

of polycarbonate, which is a petroleum by-product. While a CD costs Rs. 15, his paper or

plastic-made RVD will cost just about Rs. 1.50 and will even have 131 times more storage

capacity.


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6. COMPARISON WITH OTHER STORAGE DEVICES

Using this technology an A4 sheet of paper could store 256GB of data. In

comparison, a DVD can store 4.7GB of data. Paper is, of course, bio-degradable, unlike CDs

or DVDs.

Fig6.4: Comparison of other Storage Devices

And sheets of paper also cost a fraction of the cost of a CD or DVD. His

biodegradable nature of the storage devices would do away with the e-waste.

Currently, of the several options available for data storage, DVDs are the best mode,

but are yet expensive. CD or DVD consumes 16gms of polycarbonate, which is a petroleum

by-product. While a CD costs Rs. 15, his paper or plastic-made RVD will cost just about Rs.

1.50 and will even have 131 times more storage capacity. Using this technology an A4 sheet

of paper could store 256GB of data. In comparison, a DVD can store 4.7GB of data. Paper is,of course, bio-degradable, unlike CDs or DVDs. And sheets of paper also cost a fraction of

the cost of a CD or DVD.


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7. ADVANTAGES

Data can be stored on an ordinary paper. Huge data banks can be constructed out of Rainbow-based storage medium. Larger amount of data can be had on lesser space. The extremely low-cost technology will drastically reduce the cost of storage and provide

for high speed storage too.

Files in any format like movie files, songs, images, text can be stored using thistechnology.

His biodegradable nature of the storage devices would do away with the e-wastepollution.

The four main storage devices made using this technology are RVD, Disposable storage,Data Banks, Rainbow cards, and answer to the storage problems faced by the computer

world.

With the help of disposable storage, a high density data storage is made possible even onpaper or plastic sheets, any type of computer files can be stored and distributed this way,

so instead of giving cds with the computer magazines, its content can be printed in a

page, video albums, software etc. Can be distributed at a very low cost with the help

disposable storage

Rainbow cards can be used in mobile devices in place of DVDs & VCDs. In a squareinch sized rainbow cards, (equivalent to the size of sim card) more than 5GB data can be

stored. A major crisis faced in the design of the small digital devices is the huge size of

the CD/DVD drives. The rainbow cards can solve this problem. Un-authorized copies of

the films can be controlled to a certain limits using these cards. A UK-based company has

already evinced interest in making rainbow cards

Another theme put forward by rainbow technology is the Data Banks; it is huge serverwith a high storage capacity. As per a research project done in US in 2003 to store the

available static data films, songs, tutorials presentations etc the server required will cost

$500 crores (23000 crores). But by using data banks, a similar server can be made with

Rs.35 lacks. All the available films and other static data can be used by paying cash with

the internet. Almost 125.603 PB data storage is possible in a Data Bank.

Freelance software developer.


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8. DISADVANTAGES

The paper has the tendency to fade away hence the data loss may occur.

With the extremely low cost of using this technology we can always afford to have multiplecopies.


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CONCLUSION

Once the Rainbow technology is in, soon we would be watching full-length high-

definition videos from a piece of paper! With the popularity of the Rainbow Technology,computer or fashion magazines in future need not carry CDs in a pack.

One of the major advantages of the Rainbow system is the fact that it should cost a lot

less to produce than the typical polycarbonate DVDs, CDs and now Blu- rays. Huge data

banks can be constructed out of Rainbow-based storage medium.


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REFERENCES

1. "Data Can Now Be Stored on Paper" by M. A. Siraj, Arab News (published November18, 2006; accessed November 29, 2006)

2. Paper storage man misunderstood The Inquirer article, 12 December 2006 (retrieved15 December 2006.

3. "Store 256GB on an A4 sheet" by Chris Mellor, Techworld (published November 24,2006; accessed November 29, 2006)

4 IT Soup: Scam of Indian student developing technology to store 450 GB of data on asheet of paperBy IT Soup (published November 25, 2006; accessed November 25, 2006)

5 "Can you get 256GB on an A4 sheet? No way!" By Chris Mellor, Techworld (publishedNovember 24, 2006; accessed November 29, 2006)
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