A revolved parabolic nightlight!

[evansd2]

Similarly in some ways:

Experimenting with pixelated depth maps

So I was going for a 3d surface that looked like a grid of square columns. It would be possible to do that but the process of aligning them all sounded like a hassle, so instead I cut 16 layers with “stepped” edges to approximate the look. I used dowels to align the layers. Whole thing is friction fit, I didn’t bother to mask. I hurried and didn’t refine my model much, I just wanted something with some depth to do the proof of concept. [image] [image] I consider the concept proven. The look…