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scribbler

@ scribbler @lemmy.world

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  • Cyclometry #5

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  • I actually just got the provisional patent filed! I'm going to start working on a breakdown of the process now and throw it up on my website. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer now though!

  • Cyclometry #5

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  • It's actually a plate of titanium I did some patterned anodization on. Anodizing titanium creates a nanometers thick crystalline layer that can constructively/destructively interfere with lightwaves to create color without pigments or dyes. I invented a process to spatially control anodization a few months ago and I've been using to create art ever since. Let me know if you have any other questions!

  • Are 3D-printed objects waterproof?

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  • A vacuum sealer would be more robust and look less janky than a Ziploc bag. You can get a used food saver for cheap!

  • Marker and pen on photo paper

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  • I've always wondered why more artists don't use photo paper, is it difficult to work with?

  • Pillars of Creation

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  • Thank you! For every good print I post here there are 2-3 failed attempts. But the successfully ones are getting cooler and cooler so I'm still stoked!

  • Pillars of Creation

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  • Thanks! That's exactly it on the color, I think it's a combination of the surface roughness of the titanium plate and tiny variations in the anodization layer itself that give it that look.

  • Waves on the beach in titanium

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  • Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoy them, I'll keep posting!

  • Waves on the beach in titanium

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  • It is, I've got it hanging in a local gallery at $1k US. If that price didn't scare you off I'd be open to negotiating over DM!

  • Waves on the beach in titanium

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  • It is somewhat closer to traditional photography, but it's using an electrochemical process to create the colors. I'm so sorry I can't tell you more details right now, I'll quote my comment on details below. Once I file a patent on this I'll make a detailed post here on my process. Assuming it even gets granted I intend to make it free for individuals (but not corporations) to use.

    So I'm going to just say it's an electrochemical anodization process for now. The detail comes from a new process I've been developing over the last month or so that I'm going to be filing a patent on soon. I'll be happy to share with you all once I've done so, but I the idea of Elon Musk maybe seeing one of these posts and using my process to make a fleet of printed titanium cyber trucks using my process would make me sad.

  • Waves on the beach in titanium

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  • So I'm going to just say it's an electrochemical anodization process for now. The detail comes from a new process I've been developing over the last month or so that I'm going to be filing a patent on soon. I'll be happy to share with you all once I've done so, but I the idea of Elon Musk maybe seeing one of these posts and using my process to make a fleet of printed titanium cyber trucks using my process would make me sad.

  • Waves on the beach in titanium

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  • No worries, it's very niche! In titanium means I'm "printing" an anodization (protective oxide layer) on a titanium surface. Titanium and Niobium have a unique property the oxide layer that forms on their surfaces is transparent, and extremely thin (think <1000 nanometers). The colors come from the incoming light constructively and destructively interfering in that oxide layer, so there are no pigments or dyes used in the process.

  • Stone & Steel

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  • Beautiful shot!

  • Hexagons is Bestagons

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  • Damn. I need to go home and think about my life.

  • Hexagons is Bestagons

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  • Not the spacing, but it affects the width of the lines.

  • Titanium Sunset

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  • Exactly - my "pen" is a stainless steel nail in a 3d printed housing.

  • Titanium Sunset

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  • I make the print by anodizing - I have a pen plotter I converted for this and I use the cathode as my 'pen' to print the image.

  • Titanium Sunset

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  • Thank you!

  • Titanium Sunset

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  • Very similar! Both colors are formed by oxide layers on the surface, I think with stainless steel it's a mixture of iron and chrome oxides. In the case of titanium there is only one oxide, TiO2, which is transparent crystal (in thin forms). The TiO2 layer is thin, on the order of hundreds of nanometers so the colors you see are a result of light waves constructively and destructively interacting with the transparent layer of TiO2 on the surface of the titanium sheet.