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Go Hai-Etik, go!I support your project!
Which means we all have a lot in commonOriginally Posted by Hai-Etlik
Go Hai-Etik, go!
What are you going to make the shade out of ? Is it a print or a print to vinyl ? Or are you going to cut out a mask and let the light shine through to project the map onto the blank shade ?
Just a quick thought (besides cool idea) would be to make perforated with a small hole punch.
Have the light shine out to highlight cities on the map. Or even do one of the constellations of your world.
BOB
who has not given up hope of one day putting that fiber optic star field up on the ceiling.
We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
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Well, I plan to get it printed on a large format injet, so it should be a heavyish paper. It'll probably need some sort of reinforcing under it though I haven't decided what yet. The original shade was a sort of fibre reinforced plastic attached to the wire frame with a heavy paper tape. I'll probably need to actually get it and find out how stiff, durable, and permeable to light it is to figure out the details.
I am thinking of using a fabric tape at the top and bottom to attach to the frame and form a border.
Well, I'm seriously stressing my poor computer with this project, but the results are looking quite nice. Here's North America so far.
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Getting even slower, but almost done with designing the map.
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A new entry for the list: http://xkcd.com/977/
Lamp Shade Projections
Very cool project.
BOB
We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
www.dragonslayers-society.org
A few more refinements.
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I did a render at 360 DPI and it took hours.
Last edited by Hai-Etlik; 02-02-2012 at 06:40 PM. Reason: Fixed rendering glytch
It's luvli! Dangit. What software do you use to get these transformations of territory to different projections? I wants it!
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