Playing around

Hope you guys are doing well.  Thought you’d get a kick out of this.

It was a bit of a week last week.  Lots of "he said, he said" going on.  Nobody paying attention to the other person’s viewpoint.  I wanted to make a point about perspective.

I had come across ‘anamorphic text’, and then the 3D version…. Since I have an Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D printer, that seemed well within my reach.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a good tool to do it.  One method didn’t work, another required installing Fusion 360, with about 15 licenses.  Ugh!

After a bit of snooping around, I found TinkerCAD, and then had to teach myself how to do anamorphic modelling…I enjoyed that enough, I made a video to upload to Youtube (I haven’t done that part yet).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z4jlByGzKwWtSiE8pWESHlcOS9HXKqxX/view?usp=sharing

Great, now to print the anamorphic text.  Because it’s got overhangs (the tops of C, S, O, Q, T and so on as well as the serifs), I have to print supports, which then have to be removed to view the final product.  That’s why such prints on a simple 3D print look a little “fuzzy”.  It’s *hard* to get them to be clean.

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Fine, so I have a printed couple of words “Curve Rocks”.  Both a shameless plug for brownie points, but also something I can make a point about perspective in calls.  Great!

Then, I thought “Hey, why not make a post on LinkedIn about this?” 

Well, I /could/ have posted the picture above, but that seemed a little boring…so I figured I’d shoot a movie. I set up a lazy susan and taped a few sheets of white paper together …

The idea was to focus on the text…and ended up with this:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jOp58wRK9sKUP5jmwaHwZgL2JFg_EWxb/view?usp=sharing

Gets the point across, but there’s no fading, you can see the lazy Susan moving, and there’s the shadow on the wall behind.  Clearly, that’s not good enough.

I found a software package called OBS (Open Broadcasting Software) or some such.  Long story short, it’s very powerful software.  Some people do actually use it to broadcast TV shows and such.

My needs were much simpler, so that ended with this post on Linked in: 
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6837843593449766912/

Deb liked it so much, she asked me to create one for her company.  Her company is about being a rebel in HR practices.  Question everything.  So, she’s taken to saying she’s in a ‘rebelution’. 10 letters, that’s suspiciously suitable for this process…but because both faces had pronounced serifs it was a right pain to try to clean off...

So, now I get to make her a movie too.

In the end, my mind (mostly) off my work. Mission accomplished, more or less.

Fun way to spend a couple days of a 3 day weekend.

Anyway, off to walk the dogs now. Give each other hugs for me!

-me