Totally agree that it needs a backer. My hope is to cut a similar pattern out of white acrylic and back it with a very dark stained piece of wood… Possible raised, with aluminum sign spacers like so:
By the way, if you are instagram peeps and are looking for a GREAT laser-related follow, https://www.instagram.com/tinkeringmonkey is a great one. They do pretty magical things with lasers.
If you want to see Japanese shou-sugi-ban, wood preserved by charring it with fire, in real life head on over to Kraken Congee. You can see it in the pictures on their website. When it was first installed, we would get soot on our clothes walking up and down the stairs. Not so much anymore, thankfully.
Reminds me of posters we used to make when I worked a short spell at OfficeMax in college.
We used http://rasterbator.net. It was easier than using photoshop on the old machines. They were super laggy.
…no, I didn’t name the website.
I’m not the artist that my daughter is and lacking a cnc I was able to print the image at the size I needed with rasterbator and use that as a template.
I see a lot of this kind of thing in my future, and may also experiment with engraving this kind of thing on the two layer acrylic like the party invites in the Promo video too.