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KASHIBAI NAVALE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,VADGAON PUNE -41

VISHAL V. KUDALE T.E.(COMP),DIV I ROLL NO - 51

GUIDED BY :Mrs. G.R.Shinde mam

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION HOW IS IT POSSIBLE ? RAINBOW PICTURE GENERATION PROCESS OF STORING DATA WORKING COMPARISION WITH OTHER STORAGE DEVICES ADVATAGES DISADVANTAGES FUTURE SCOPE CONCLUSION REFERENCES
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INTRODUCTION
Rainbow technology, a breakthrough in digital data storage

enables us to store up to a massive 450 GB on just a piece of paper. Rainbow Storage is a group of techniques to store digital data in some colours, colour combinations and some symbols known as rainbow format, and therefore a rainbow picture will be generated. With the help of Rainbow system we would be watching full-length high-definition videos from a piece of paper.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?

Data stored in rainbow format on an ordinary paper.

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HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?(Contd)
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.
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.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?(Contd)
Instead of using 0s and 1s, we use color dots where each color

dot can represent minimum 8 bits (1 byte). The rainbow picture will be highly compressed and can be represented in any color medium.
"Although environmental light differences and color shading is

a problem, it can overcome up to a certain limit by using efficient mapping functions".

RAINBOW PICTURE GENERATION

RAINBOW SYMBOL TABLE(RST)

DATA FILE

CONVERSION ALGORITHM

ERROR HANDLER

RAINBOW PICTURE

SECURITY & AUTHENTICATION DATA

PROCESS OF STORING DATA

Printing at 1,200 dots per inch (DPI) leads to a theoretical

maximum of 1,440,000 colored dots per square inch.

If a scanner can reliably distinguish between 256 unique colors,

the maximum possible storage is approximately 140 megabytes for a sheet of A4 paper.
If the scanner were able to accurately distinguish between

16,777,216 colors (24 bits, or 3 bytes per dot), the capacity would triple claims of several hundred gigabytes.
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PROCESS OF STORING DATA(Contd)

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. The printer and scanner must be able to accurately produce and distinguish between an extraordinary number of distinct color values The compression scheme must be a revolutionary lossless compression algorithm.

WORKING
DATA 1010101 RAINBOW FORMAT PRINT RAINBOW FORMAT

RVD

RAINBOW FORMAT

DATA 1010101

READ THE RAINBOW FORMAT

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COMPARISION WITH OTHER DEVICES

FLOPPY DISK : Only 1.44MB of space USB memory stick(Pen-drive): Available from 1GB to

36GB. CD/DVDs : CDs have storage space up to 700MB DVDs have storage space 4.5 to 17GB HARD DISK : Can hold anything from 3.75MB to 3 TB.

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ADVANTAGES
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 this technology. The biodegradable nature of the storage devices would do away with the e-waste pollution. The four main storage devices made using this technology are RVD, Disposable storage.

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ADVANTAGES(Contd)
Another theme put forward by rainbow technology is the Data

Banks. It is huge server with a high storage capacity.

As per a research project done in US in 2003 to store the

available static data, the server required will cost $500 crores(23000 crores). But by using data banks ,a similar server can be made with Rs.35 lacks.

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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 multiple copies.

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FUTURE SCOPE
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

Large scale manufacture of the Rainbow card will bring down

its cost to just 50 paise

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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.

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

"Data Can Now Be Stored on Paper" by M. A. Siraj,

Arab News (published November 18, 2006; accessed November 29, 2006) "Store 256GB on an A4 sheet" by Chris Mellor, Techworld (published November 24, 2006; accessed November 29, 2006) IT Soup: Scam of Indian student developing technology to store 450 GB of data on a sheet of paper By IT Soup (published November 25, 2006; accessed November 25, 2006)
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THANK YOU

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QUESTIONS???

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