This piece, entitled “A 3D Printed Moment,” was created to combine the light art principles and methods that other famous artists we learned about earlier in the term have used, while also expanding into new techniques of my own, in this case, 3D printed lithophanes and older techniques known as Zoetrope images. Lithophane Idea From…

I was able to create a rough build of what I hope for the final project to look like. I am really liking how the project is so far coming out, especially with the laser cut acrylic incorporated into the piece. I discovered that I would need some sort of shutter, whether that be a…

Following the issues I was getting last week with my 3D printer and the incomplete prints I was receiving, I switched my system over to OctoPrint to get rid of the SD card issues I was having. I have almost got everything put together, and have one final piece printing as I write this post….

This past week, I have made many decisions for this project to move forward with. To start, I finally decided which GIF/set of images I would be using for the Lithophane zoetrope. I was originally having a hard time deciding what subject I wanted to portray, but ended up going with “The Horse in Motion.”…

Original Idea: Colored Lithophane: My original idea was to create a colored lithophane, which is normally only seen in black and while and then start to play around with similar themes used by Carnovsky using different RGB light sources to portray different components of a larger image. Above is my test trying out this method…

In general, for all of my concept ideas, my hope is to build off of techniques and skills I already have, while also pushing these skills to the next level. I would especially like to somehow incorporate electrical and soldering skills, and maybe even push my laser cutting skills to the next level. Concept #1:…