Wavering

Sleep. Sleep? A fading memory…

My wife and I try to rotate feedings so we can each get about 6 hours of sleep, more or less. I am responsible for the 6pm, 9pm and midnight feeding. My daughter consumes her milk pretty quickly, but the boy can take awhile. And then my daughter will fuss for a bit before going to sleep. Last night, I finally got to bed at 1:30 or so. My wife was then up at 2:15 as my daughter was already clamoring for the 3am feeding. And my wife was up again at dawn for the 6am feeding. And so it goes every night. I sleep, but am somewhat aware of the activity during that time. 1 month as of today.

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I didn’t have the appropriate equipment for baby feeding :slight_smile: I did change & wash diapers (cloth ones, not disposables).

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That’s dedication. :grinning:

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Yeah… I made sure my Wife provided some… food… so I could feed the kids. I don’t know that women fully understand the experience/bond they get to have with children that men simply can never come close to. (Yes… I know… Grass is always greener…) So I was always careful to try and do everything I could possibly do. I never minded the diapers and things. It’s funny to see new parents… We all do the same things… Kid sleeps through the night? So that just means you wake up every hour, make sure they’re breathing, then go back to sleep. Luckily that dissipates a little as time goes by. :wink:

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until you stab yourself :slight_smile:

Or the boy fountains you in your face :smile:

Yep, that’s for sure!

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SO! I’ve done a few tests by now… Interesting results. And I’m going to say they’re not good.

Test 1: :proofgrade:


As you see, same waviness on :proofgrade:.

Test 2: Converted image from jpg to png.


No real change. Still wavy.

Test 3: Horizontal


This is the disappointing moment…
All of the lines that were previously vertical (that are now horizontal) are straight.
All of the lines that were previously horizontal (that are now vertical) are wavy.
That tells me there’s nothing “wrong” with the image. Rather there’s something wrong either with the Glowforge software, the Glowforge hardware, or my Glowforge hardware.

Test 4: Vector Lines in AI.


This really brings it all home. Horizontal lines, straight. Vertical lines? Wavy. Tom? Unhappy.

So… Did I have this problem all along you ask? Great question. As a matter of fact I asked myself the same thing. So I found my Founder’s Ruler. Guess what…


Vertical lines are wavy. I think all of the excitement of having the Glowforge ummm… laser-tinted my vision and made me think everything was perfect. Guess it’s not.

:sigh:

REALLY makes me wonder how everything I’ve done so far would have been better without the wavy y axis.

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Uh… well crap man. Any feedback from support yet?

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Yes. But just a request that I test on :proofgrade:. I sent a pic of Test 1 as soon as it finished (a couple hours ago). They said they’re going to do the same test.

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Major bummer. Sorry to hear the waves persist. :persevere:

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Okay, I’m running a test on your initial jpeg.

Let me ask you this…do you have the machine on a very stable table?

or try rotating the glowforge 90 degrees?

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Mine came out perfectly straight in both directions. The reason I asked him about the stability of the table he has it on. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Wait a minute… Am I having dejavu or making things up, or did someone else have this problem too, a while ago. I swear I remember wavy glowforge ruler lines. But I also remember Berenstein Bears, so I’m not a great rememberer.

I shall go forth and search.

Edit:

Pretty sure this is what I was thinking of. But I don’t know how to do the fancy post people do, so ya just get a link :blush:

I learned! Thanks, @rhenley

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You can put the link on its own line and it will automatically fancify itself.

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My wife breast feeds and pumps, and we supplement with formula. Two babies consume more that she can produce

Confirmed. It’s so stable that as I watched and felt very carefully for any shaking or anything, I felt silly for even questioning it. It’s that stable.

Thanks for the test! I’m glad you’re not seeing the issue!

Look at that. Funny thing is, I’d already read that thread back in December, I guess, and completely forgot about it. I don’t see that Marion actually resolved his waviness. Not sure it bothered him very much. @marmak3261, care to chime in about that? Frankly, up until yesterday it hadn’t bothered me. But that was really the first time I’d done something that made the issue so obvious. It really shocked me when I saw it. And then when I showed my son, his first question was “Daddy, was this hand-drawn or something?” I smiled and said “No. I see it too, though. And I’ve already contacted Glowforge about it.”

Speaking of which, @Rita’s gotten back to me. Nothing much to say as of yet… just that she’s a couple more questions for me that she’ll ask sometime before Tuesday. I told 'er to go have a great weekend. She doesn’t need to deal with my crap right now! :slight_smile:

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Apparently you discovered that Glowforging a Tardis will actually result in time travel… I believe @dan had that one in the hopper…

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:flushed: Seriously though—that’s crazy! Seems like a weird alignment issue—it’s not like when the laser was going back and forth it just randomly continued the line a certain distance away from where it was in the previous swipe. Everything’s still connected so whatever it is the :glowforge: is incrementally shifting everything. It’s almost as if theres a ripple in your :glowforge:'s “digital trapping”.

Now I’m gonna have to run upstairs and double-check all of my creations and run a test or two.

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Good point. We really are seeing a wave as opposed to just randomness in the vertical lines.

Heh. Here… If you want my test lines…

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Nice outfit

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