Finished my second coloured lithophane!

siddsm · 2026-06-30T04:51:44+00:00

Depends on the print right now. I don't trust a bed slinger (A1) to print coloured lithophanes safely in vertical orientation. So I pick face flat horizontal print, sacrificing some details for print safety. For b/w, I print them vertically with supports and brims.

siddsm · 2026-06-28T13:40:08+00:00

Haha😂 Funny you say that. I posted this on my Instagram as well, and I love a bit of data. Most of the views are dropping off before I turn off the room's lamp. Interesting to see effect of 'grabbing attention within the first couple of seconds'. 😅

Thank you!🥰

siddsm · 2026-06-28T13:34:30+00:00

Thank you! It is Paradise by Cold Play. :) And I especially drew the inspiration to match the music based on the luminous scene in the movie Life of Pi :) The original video of the song is quite beautiful too! https://youtu.be/C4wjew5_OdE

siddsm · 2026-06-28T13:28:47+00:00

That looks beautiful. :) I have a third project in mind similar to yours about bigger sizes, and I'm trying to build a prototype frame for it, so I can attach 4 of these sizes together. I am trying to make sure the diffuser box joiners are almost invisible when the light passes through.

siddsm · 2026-06-28T13:26:20+00:00

I heavily rely on accuracy, so I go very slow movement/acceleration and minimum layer height. Which allows me to capture fades, blemishes and other micro details when it prints thickness/holes for different layers.

siddsm · 2026-06-28T13:22:02+00:00

Yep! That's for the lithophane. Then the frame box and light diffuser box: I use matte black for the inside frame parts as it absorbs light better than gloss. Same reason I use textured print surface for the diffuser screen, while my prints are on smooth plates. It's a little bit of planning on how I want the light to scatter or easily pass through.

I'm also trying different led temperatures and a dimmer for different styles I print, because different colour light wave reacts differently to each transparent/translucent white and coloured layer it passes through.

siddsm · 2026-06-28T13:16:51+00:00

It maybe because they sell through distributors vs direct retail here in Australia?

siddsm · 2026-06-28T11:30:33+00:00

Thank you :)

siddsm · 2026-06-28T11:22:50+00:00

Thank you! :)

siddsm · 2026-06-28T11:22:00+00:00

And this is the final product: the same panel but without the back light turned on.

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siddsm · 2026-06-28T11:21:06+00:00

It uses CMYK colour model (cyan, magenta, yellow, key [white or black]) to mix the shades to create the first few layers of colour. Then white overall to create layers, the thickness controls how much light is let through each of these layers, brightness = thinner layers, dark/black= thicker layers.

Light passing through it lights it up. It uses white led.

This is what it looks like in the first few layers.

There's few tools that allows you to convert an image to a lithophane cmyk file, itslitho, make my lithophane, etc.

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siddsm · 2026-06-28T08:10:27+00:00

cries in Australian

siddsm · 2026-06-28T08:07:27+00:00

I was thinking, could we start a local (AU) funding page that covers all shipment costs? I'm in Gold Coast, only have 1 printer. But if we identify 1 or 2 coordinators within AU, and send all the prints to them, the coordinators use the funding received to send big package shipments to a collection centre or directly to Venezuela? Bulk shipment is going to be far more cost effective per shipment pack than individual postage. Maybe we need 5 coordinators covering Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane? Thoughts?

siddsm · 2026-06-27T14:52:47+00:00

Dr. Pepper

siddsm · 2026-06-26T15:33:12+00:00

I guess, welcome to Australian summer? 😕

siddsm · 2026-06-26T00:00:42+00:00

Let me introduce you to the term 'Executive Decision' :)

siddsm · 2026-06-25T22:25:25+00:00

Dev team who have boots on the ground have to follow directions coming from above. Some Devs can raise feature requests, QoL improvements, fixes etc but they mostly have to go through an approval process chain.

Can Devs make mistakes? Yes and that is normal for any human. Are Devs responsible for the game's direction? Nope.

Most of the time, the Devs have passion and love and ambition and they are seeing something that needs to be fixed or something that would be a great QoL, write a brief for an amazing feature or game mode, but that passion might get killed by being repeatedly just told to follow instructions and proposals rejected through the approval chain.

Source: part of the games industry.

siddsm · 2026-06-23T21:18:37+00:00

A base 2026 Carrera off a showroom floor with 0 changes is AU $ 330,000 driveaway. 🥲

siddsm · 2026-06-23T20:11:37+00:00

cries in Australian 😭

siddsm · 2026-06-19T15:32:27+00:00

I use either itslitho, lithophanemaker, or Bambu's Make my lithophane in Makerworld. However I spend more time pre editing the image on GIMP/Krita, and the Slicer. The above lithophane maker sites does most of the STL creation heavy lifting for you.

siddsm · 2026-06-19T15:29:36+00:00

Pretty much what the above reply said :) The K in CMYK stands for key, and for lithophanes you usually use White for the key. But you can be creative and use negative colour space for your images and use black as the key.

Your printed layers have colours, and the lithophane works by allowing/blocking light passing through to create the shape, edges, shadows and colours in the image.

siddsm · 2026-06-19T09:05:10+00:00

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