{"id":451,"date":"2014-12-23T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T22:34:34","slug":"lithophane-christmas-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/lithophane-christmas-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithophane Christmas Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing with making spherical lithophanes with my new 3D printer (PrintrBot Simple Metal).\u00a0 I wrote some Java code to read the image data and then map the image to a sphere.\u00a0 The thickness of the sphere is determined by the darkness of the image.\u00a0 Below are some pictures of the results.\u00a0 I illuminated the bulbs by drilling a small hole in the sphere and sticking a Christmas light into the hole.\u00a0 My Christmas tree lights are colored resulting in the bulbs appearing colored when illuminated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/auggie_close.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/auggie_close.jpg\" alt=\"Auggie Close\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/auggie_close.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/auggie_close-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FandJ_close.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FandJ_close.jpg\" alt=\"FandJ Closeup\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FandJ_close.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FandJ_close-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a shot of some of the bulbs without illumination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bulbs_group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bulbs_group.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbs Group\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bulbs_group.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bulbs_group-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would like to add features to the balls to make them look more like traditional Christmas bulbs but the mesh that is produced by my Java program is so large that I have not been able to perform even the simplest Boolean operations on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing with making spherical lithophanes with my new 3D printer (PrintrBot Simple..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}