scribbler

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[–] scribbler 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] scribbler 4 points 2 days ago

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

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submitted 2 days ago by scribbler to c/artshare
 

Another anodized titanium piece - this one is playing with line work. The color variation is from varying dwell time, which changes for each hexagon in a rolling pattern, as well as from the interactions between the hexagons.

[–] scribbler 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] scribbler 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] scribbler 6 points 3 days ago
[–] scribbler 12 points 3 days ago

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.

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Titanium Sunset (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by scribbler to c/artshare
 

First post here - I’ve been experimenting with creating art by selectively anodizing titanium. Patterning anodized titanium isn’t new, but this process allows me to create full pictures, which I think is the first time this has ever been done.

This piece started off as a photo of a beach at sunset that I color mapped into the anodized Ti spectrum and printed.

[–] scribbler 2 points 1 month ago

Flawless logic, fantastic post