Real world Wip. Glass sculptures.
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wow, very cool! Will the contours be closer together (relative to the shapes) in the full version? The contours are a bit distracting imo in the block head.
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Yes. Block head was a low res sample.
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Rich, we are jumping around various programs to get the data sliced, diced and tweaked. And one of the most rediculous things is we still need to move it all to an XP pc as the laser software still hasn't moved with the times.
I did once import the male figure obj into SU, it took more than 24 hours. It would orbit but anything else was impossible. -
Wow! I'd love to see you working on this in person.
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Pop over to Sydney before December and you can see it in process and enjoy an amber fluid or two. You would also see who Box is in reality.
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I'd like that. Don't think my boss would let me get away from work, though.
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It'll be after November,so everyone who can, will be throwing on their life vests, jumping in the sea and paddling like Cubans but in the other direction.
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True. Maybe I'll be moving in with you.
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If your willing to fly me and the kids out I'll be there...
...with a hammer...smashy time
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Sure Rich, no problem, you go and wait by the letterbox, I'm sure the tickets will arrive any second now.
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Not a great photo but it gives you some idea of the scale of this work.
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@box said:
It'll be after November,so everyone who can, will be throwing on their life vests, jumping in the sea and paddling like Cubans but in the other direction.
Fuck me dead and bury me pregnant!
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Stunning work! Please show us more progress pictures if you can!
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Have I said WOW already? I'm a big fan of this topic already...
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Ok, here's a couple more.
This is still a test sample, we are making this to work through the issues involved in the laminating process. Issues like, how the hell do you glue things this big together without getting air bubbles and crap between the layers.
This is 10 sheets of glass with the contour lines compressed to form the image. So it has some depth but nowhere near the final piece which will be 10 times thicker.
Something most people don't realise is that glass isn't very easy to see through when you stack it all together, you get multiple reflections and clouding and the more layers the denser it becomes. You eventually can't see through it at all.
However, when properly 'glued' together the block of 100 sheets will become pretty much optically clear. You will be able to read a newspaper through it.
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Fantastic project. Very interested to see the process and results!
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This was a test to confirm the amount of detail we wanted to put into it, we needed to do a large enough section so that we could see if the back and front faces worked together. It would be no good if the hair on the back of his head overpowered the detail of his face. I think we have got the balance right.
As I mentioned earlier, sheets of glass stacked together become too dense to see through, but once laminated it becomes optically clear.
You can see that here, the first image is just dry sheets of glass with all the detail but not glued.
The second is the same sheets glued together.
The third is with light from underneath.
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Some would call it an "exceptional art object", others call it "just a test"...
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Thanks Cotty, I know what you mean.
But now that it has answered the questions it's just a 90 kilo lump we have to put somewhere out of the way. -
Seems a little morbid!
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