Well, hey, that's me! Howdy folks.
Also, if you like my mathy design instincts with this stained glass piece, you may enjoy looking through the painting work (mostly oils) I've done over the last couple years:
Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
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Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#12Well, hey, that's me! Howdy folks.
Love the design, but I'm kind of envious of how easy you made this look! Haha. My wife and I got super into stained glass work for a while there, and while she kept getting better, I never really did. It's hard to do it well, so mad props to you for making it look so easy!
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#13Menger sponges are neat! I once wrote up some code to procedurally generate them for 3d rendering.
https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/prims/blob/master/sponge....
(See readme for a rendering)
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#14My mom made some really amazing stained glass projects when I was a kid and I've always been fascinated by it. Recently I had the thought that the process could be singnificantly sped by using CNC/Waterjets or something else to help with the really time consuming cutting and fitting aspects. I've found a few instances where people have used CNC cutters with a diamond drag bit to help score the glass, and a few indust…
> almost entirely from curved pieces (a near impossibility with traditional scoring and breaking)
I was a little surprised when I read this because it means the people at my local makerspace are magicians. There are tons of examples of curved stained glass as well as a lot of howtos on how to do it. The came glasswork page on wikipedia is full of stained glass with curves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Came_glasswork
What am I missing?
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#15My mom made some really amazing stained glass projects when I was a kid and I've always been fascinated by it. Recently I had the thought that the process could be singnificantly sped by using CNC/Waterjets or something else to help with the really time consuming cutting and fitting aspects. I've found a few instances where people have used CNC cutters with a diamond drag bit to help score the glass, and a few indust…
> almost entirely from curved pieces (a near impossibility with traditional scoring and breaking) I was a little surprised when I read this because it means the people at my local makerspace are magicians. There are tons of examples of curved stained glass as well as a lot of howtos on how to do it. The came glasswork page on wikipedia is full of stained glass with curves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Came_glasswork…
What you're missing is glass grinders (router) and band saws. Grinders use diamond abrasive bits and flood cooling. Glass bandsaws same deal. With those you can shape flat pieces any shape you want.
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#16Well, hey, that's me! Howdy folks.
Thank you for the extensive write up! It sounds like a fun thing to do and I'm looking for classes in my area.
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#17My mom made some really amazing stained glass projects when I was a kid and I've always been fascinated by it. Recently I had the thought that the process could be singnificantly sped by using CNC/Waterjets or something else to help with the really time consuming cutting and fitting aspects. I've found a few instances where people have used CNC cutters with a diamond drag bit to help score the glass, and a few indust…
I'd imagine the cutting glass part is a major draw to this hobby. That and the soldering looks like the fun part to me.
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#18Fun fact: I was seeing pyramids in the center of faces on all pictures until I searched online to look what is a menger sponge!
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> almost entirely from curved pieces (a near impossibility with traditional scoring and breaking) I was a little surprised when I read this because it means the people at my local makerspace are magicians. There are tons of examples of curved stained glass as well as a lot of howtos on how to do it. The came glasswork page on wikipedia is full of stained glass with curves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Came_glasswork…
What you're missing is glass grinders (router) and band saws. Grinders use diamond abrasive bits and flood cooling. Glass bandsaws same deal. With those you can shape flat pieces any shape you want.
I had never heard of glass bandsaws before, but this looks amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyqfO7GdyJ0
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#20That is stunning! The part about copper and solder got me wondering if it would be possible to create some primitive circuits for... something?
Glass is a perfectly good circuit board material. Here's a company offering it commercially: http://www.hoyaoptics.com/gcb/index.htm
That is pretty neat, it's essentially a macroscale version of a CMOS process.