Tony's awesome laser thing

Just saw Tony’s vase on @Dan’s twitter feed and had to share it here.

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That is cool! I might have to make one of those…

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witchcraft,

seems like a good excuses to put a mob together

cool optical illusion

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Oh my. That’s trippy. Can’t quite tell. Is the inside hollow?

Really neat design and and function. Perfect use of laser to cut and stack and do 3D.

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the inside is a set of graduated rings. The full circles stop you from seeing it all at once resulting in the appearance of motion when perspective changes

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If the outer rings were clear acrylic, a light inside would look really cool. It looked like there was a light cord behind the lamp.:grin:

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Very cool. Definitely on my glowForge to do list now

Ooo neat idea. Could have lots of fun with different colors of acrylic.

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Cc the real @Tony

I couldn’t help myself…

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This is like the adult version of those stickers where the image changes depending on how you look at it. I don’t know what they’re called or how they work, but I loved them.

I feel like it would be a logistical nightmare, but I wonder if the awesome laser thing could be made so that something is revealed with the angle change - like a word. Or one word morphing into another.

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I believe it’s just something like a lenticular lens that blocks the view at different angles.