11-Layer Geometric Art Panel

[kittski]

This was a pretty old thread so I’m not sure if the OP will see it. These posts might help you get started though.

How are the layers created with theses Mandalas

Hello Glowforge community, Can anyone through in some tips with regards to creating Mandalas? I’ve done a load of Googling but am coming up short… I can do “path offsets”, and I can also use the “blend tool”, but I can not help to think that I am being a bit cumbersome and there are quicker ways to do this rather than working on individual elements of the whole. Anyone done this? [download]

Layered 3d Effects

I’m always fascinated by ways you can take 2D designs and make them 3 dimensional. One really easy way to do this is using http://www.123dapp.com/make (which can take any 3D model and turn it into stacked slices or intersecting planes with a few clicks). I’ve also seen a technique of taking a thin design of some kind and expanding the shapes slowly across stacks of material to get a really cool effect, like so: [image] (the artist who made these did a $50,000 Kickstarter! https://www.kickst…