“A dream is a wish your heart makes.” – Cinderella
Laser cutting was a very interesting class, I didn’t expect it to go the way it did. I assumed it’d be a lot more technical, but once we learned to navigate Illustrator we could do pretty much whatever we wanted.
As I plan to add the extra components of both LEDs and a sensor, I decided to stick with only one gear as to not overwhelm myself. Doing this also allowed me to be more creative with my design, as I don’t have to think about how multiple gears can fit together.
My first design included a lot of geometric shapes, I was taking inspiration from stained glass windows. It was very sharp and symmetrical, and though it looked nice I felt like it didn’t fit what I was going for. I want the colour sensor to control both the speed of the motor and the colour of the LEDs, and I felt like stained glass is to ridged for that concept.
I decided to make a design based off of this (https://youtu.be/xEcqC_lBXkc) artwork I really like, along with the bubbles seen in 1950s Cinderella (https://media.giphy.com/media/cAv1t940DC8la/giphy.gif). Both pieces show circles that overlap with each other to create new colours, and I wanted to try recreating that with the techniques we learned. I brought this up to our lecturer, and she mentioned that I could UV print in transparent ink to create different textures on the acrylic. I plan to utilise that, along with rastering and engraving to give the circles in my design different textures that reflet the LEDs like bubbles reflect light.
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