David Harvey
12-05-2010, 11:50 AM
Hi All,
Wow! It's been a long time since I've gotten around to post...been lurking daily though....;o)
When time permits (not often anymore) I try to do a little play time in the shop. I noticed the thread about the Aztec calander that has come up again...yes, there is always a lot of interest in this one because of the fantastic detail in it. I for one, keep revisiting it too.
I thought that I would try to create a depthmap of the calander and see how it worked as a 3D engraved file. To my surprise, it came out extremely well!
So that everyone else that wants some of their own playtime with it, I've included the Aztec depthmap so you can have some of your own fun. To my amazement, I ran the laser with '0%' power setting and a speed of 10%....this gave me a depth of a little over 1/8" in one pass. I think I could have increased the speed up to about 30% which would have produced more of the 3D slopes in the file, but at a lesser depth.
Anyway...if anyone wants to give it a try here it is.
I also did a depthmap of a farm scene and tried running it in 3D too. It turned out pretty good, but this one took 3 passes. This was also the one where I figured out to set the power to '0'...when I did, a lot of the detail in the image began to appear, where before it was bland.
Thought I would share....;)
Wow! It's been a long time since I've gotten around to post...been lurking daily though....;o)
When time permits (not often anymore) I try to do a little play time in the shop. I noticed the thread about the Aztec calander that has come up again...yes, there is always a lot of interest in this one because of the fantastic detail in it. I for one, keep revisiting it too.
I thought that I would try to create a depthmap of the calander and see how it worked as a 3D engraved file. To my surprise, it came out extremely well!
So that everyone else that wants some of their own playtime with it, I've included the Aztec depthmap so you can have some of your own fun. To my amazement, I ran the laser with '0%' power setting and a speed of 10%....this gave me a depth of a little over 1/8" in one pass. I think I could have increased the speed up to about 30% which would have produced more of the 3D slopes in the file, but at a lesser depth.
Anyway...if anyone wants to give it a try here it is.
I also did a depthmap of a farm scene and tried running it in 3D too. It turned out pretty good, but this one took 3 passes. This was also the one where I figured out to set the power to '0'...when I did, a lot of the detail in the image began to appear, where before it was bland.
Thought I would share....;)