Lasercut-Art inspired by Escher and the Autumn
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Published on June 28, 2012
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Hi there!
This is a laser cut piece inspired by the work of M.C. Escher. The work is inspired by mathematical patterns and the autumn season in which I designed this piece.
The idea is that one shape (in this case a leaf) is repeated throughout the work using translations and rotations. The shape is specific and are often referred to their 'grundtype' (see illustration). The grundtype used in this work is C3C3C3C3.
I love seeing my work somewhere else, if you do decide to use my design, please be so kind to mention me as the original designer, thank you.
This is a laser cut piece inspired by the work of M.C. Escher. The work is inspired by mathematical patterns and the autumn season in which I designed this piece.
The idea is that one shape (in this case a leaf) is repeated throughout the work using translations and rotations. The shape is specific and are often referred to their 'grundtype' (see illustration). The grundtype used in this work is C3C3C3C3.
I love seeing my work somewhere else, if you do decide to use my design, please be so kind to mention me as the original designer, thank you.
Instructions
I glued three different collored wallpapers to 3mm thick MDF, laser cut the files (black is engraving, red is cutting). I used one of the borders from the plates and glued it to a same size/thickness plate. I started assembling the leafs by glueing them on the plate using wood glue.
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Arvin
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June 29, 2012
said:
I like it!
Would it be possible to isolate one leaf out of the dxf file? I'd like to print several in three colors.
ARTCAD
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June 29, 2012
said:
laser cutting provides natural gap between pieces,3D printing does not. before extruding original countour into 3D shape make an inside equdistant countour. For mentioned above lizzzardss I stepped .8mm per side, and that worked just fine
frits297
on
June 29, 2012
said:
Hi Arvin, thanks for your comment!
Try to seperate some leafs using one of the uploaded documents, the design was originnaly created in Illustrator, I made sure that the laser cutter wouldn't cut every line twice (just repeating one complete leaf form will cause this), make sure you do the same or it might take up some more laser-t
ime.
License
Lasercut-Art inspired by Escher and the Autumn by frits297 is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
Arvin, Isolate 1 leaf by using "delete virtual segments" if importing into Corel Draw. Great design... love to see more of it... FlyingFish and Lizards are here on Thingiverse. Also, might suggest not rastering but using a lower powerd vector cut (I think "vector colors" in the laser print driver...ie.. true vector cut is 100% power for instance but set up job to see black lines as 20-35% power... then the whole thing is vector and likely run the whole job in half the time... just a thought.. might try this in the morning...love the idea of different wallpapers.... be great with other complementary color combos too,
say - yellow, orange, red? (but a soft red) I see many possibilities...THANKS a bunch...