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Land Layer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/Iris_layer-40.svg\")
Depth 40 layer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/Iris_layer-80.svg\")
Depth 80 layer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/Iris_layer-120.svg\")
Depth 120 layer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nFor my first cuts on this project I ran into many more issues than I anticipated and was only able to cut out layer 40 and 80. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cut layer 40<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/IMG_9534-1016x1024.jpeg\")
Cut layer 80<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/IMG_9540-997x1024.jpeg\")
Layer 40 on 80<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/IMG_9541-943x1024.jpeg\")
Layer 40 on 80 at an angle<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As you can see layer 40 is broken and a mess. I had made my test cuts and thought that power 35 with 5 passes would work to vector cut my 1\/4 inch birch plywood all around. Id had for the test and for maybe 50% of the vector cuts in Layer 40 but the rest were not completely cut through. I ran the laser agin to do all the vector cuts again at 35 power and one more pass (now 6 total) and still not everything was cut. I now know I should have upped the poser to 40 and cuts to maybe 8, but I has just waited 40 mins on this single layer and had nothing else done and my appointment was running out. So, with the suggestion of the person on duty in the Prototyping Lab I thought I would be able to use a box cutter to get the stuck pieces out successfully. I was very wrong, it took my the whole next 30 mins (while layer 80 cut on poser 37 with 7 passes) to get about half the uncut pieces to separate, and I broke a whole section off! I will obviously be redoing this layer whe I do the others. The lesson I learned is, no matter the time continue to laser cut until every piece is absolutely separated from the material, LET THE LASER DO THE WORK! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Broken layer 40<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/IMG_9539-800x1024.jpeg\")
Only good part of layer 40<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/IMG_9537-1010x1024.jpg\")
Back of layer 40<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/IMG_9538-768x1024.jpeg\")
Close up on back of the uncut layer 40<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nBecause I cannot show you yet how I hope all the layers will look in the end, here is my final design where each color represents one layer to be stacked in this order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Note: The one white section will likely be filled in with the surrounding dark blue color and will not be an actual cut.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n Question: In my original Layer design post I was planning to add topographic lines to the surrounding land to add a 2D representation of height to contrast the 3D physical depth in the water. Unfortunately, I ended up spending much more time hand drawing each of the layers you see here and was not able to add these lines as of yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My question is, do you think not including the topographic lines and instead having the map labels and details included now works well enough to give the sense of land vs deep ocean? Also, are there any other map details you think I could include anywhere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UPDATE: 4\/10\/21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe I have finished! Its 5 layers, 4 gradient blue water layers and the sealed natural wood land layer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Top down<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/04\/IMG_9575-1024x1024.jpeg\")
From the side<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nHere are the five layers before I assembled them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi Everyone! Here are my current designs for each layer, blue and black are vector engraves and red is vector cuts. For my first cuts on this project I ran into many more issues than I anticipated and was only able to cut out layer 40 and 80. As you can see layer 40 is… <\/p>\n