{"id":26065,"date":"2021-09-01T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/galaxy-z-fold-3-what-happens-when-we-draw-16000-circles-on-it-with-an-s-pen.html"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:03:01","slug":"galaxy-z-fold-3-what-happens-when-we-draw-16000-circles-on-it-with-an-s-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/galaxy-z-fold-3-what-happens-when-we-draw-16000-circles-on-it-with-an-s-pen.html","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Z Fold 3: What happens when we draw 16,000 circles on it with an S Pen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When new flagship phones come out, CNET doesn’t shy away from testing the durability claims made by manufacturers. We’ve done drop tests<\/a>. We’ve done water tests<\/a>. When the new foldable phones started coming on the market from Motorola and Samsung, we even did folding tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even before the latest Samsung foldables were announced, I’d been trying to figure out a new kind of experiment to gauge the resilience of these phones. Could we test the strength of the hinges with weights? Maybe use it as a shovel at the beach to see if any sand got inside?<\/p>\n

With the introduction of the Galaxy Z Fold 3<\/a> and its accompanying S Pen Fold Edition, I decided we should look at the durability of the screen itself. I was curious to find out how much one could draw on the screen with the S Pen before any ill effects could be noticed.<\/p>\n

I knew randomly drawing on the screen for an extended period of time was no way to conduct the experiment, so I turned to my 3D printer, which I knew was capable of generating consistent repetitive motions. I modified my Creality Ender 3 V2 printer to make it a plotter instead and printed out a holder to make it work with the S Pen.<\/p>\n

Then, with a little help from the internet, I had to teach myself how to program a little bit of gcode so I could make the plotter do what I needed it to. The key ended up being this little string right here: G2 F5277 I50 J0. With some trial and error, I figured out this bit of code would draw a circle with a radius of 50mm 1,000 times in one hour. Copy and paste 1,000 times in Notepad and voila!<\/p>\n

The Galaxy Z Fold 3 looks slick with its new design<\/h2>\n

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Finally, once I got the Z Fold 3 in hand, I had to find a good drawing program that would be interesting to watch for 16 hours. I landed on Infinite Painter<\/a> because of its clean interface and huge supply of interesting brushes.<\/p>\n

So, now the time has come for me to see what happens when I put all these pieces together and run my experiment. You’ll note that I keep calling it an experiment, and not a test, because there’s nothing really scientific about what I’m doing. Samsung hasn’t made any claims about how much you can draw on the screen of the Z Fold 3 with the S Pen, so I’m not really testing anything. I’m just presenting a demonstration of what might happen if someone, for some reason, chose to draw circles on the Fold 3 for the equivalent of a 5K race.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, it will also provide some zen to your day, having this experiment just running along in the background.<\/p>\n

So tune in on Wednesday at 1 p.m. PT to see me kick things off and keep coming back until the wee hours of Thursday morning as I approach my goal of 16,000 circles, or just over 5,000 meters of drawing.<\/p>\n

And if you’re curious, here’s some of the math behind my madness:<\/p>\n

Radius of circle being drawn: 50 mm<\/em><\/p>\n

Circumference of circle: 314.16 mm<\/em><\/p>\n

The machine draws 1000 circles in 1 hour<\/em><\/p>\n

1000 circles x 314.16 mm = 314160 mm\/hr = 314.16 meters per hour<\/em><\/p>\n

5 km would take 15.9 or basically 16 Hours<\/em><\/p>\n

314.16 meters per hour = 1030.7 feet per hour<\/em><\/p>\n

1 mile = 5.12 hours<\/em><\/p>\n

3 miles would take 15.36 hours<\/em><\/p>\n

5 km = 3.1 miles<\/em><\/p>\n

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